On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: > The clonezilla live project is a really nice way to do image-copies of > machines: > http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/ > but it's based on a Debian live OS which has some unfamiliar quirks. Has > anyone built something like this on a Centos base? > > For anyone who hasn't seen it, it can do whole disk or partition copies of > windows and most Linux filesystems and it knows enough to only copy the used > parts of the disk. Among other tricks, it can also build a bootable iso image > containing itself and one or more images that you can load directly from the > cd/dvd. Seems similar to partimage. If you use Recovery Is Possible (RIP) you have a small image (77MB) that contains a recent kernel with all tools you can imagine (with ntfs, cifs, partimage, ...) You can put RIP on a small USB stick, or ISO or PXE. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]