Yep, and USB external hard drives are even cheaper per GB. Here in Australia an 8G USB stick retails for around AU$50, while a 250G 2.5" external HDD is around AU$140 by comparison (about 1/10 the cost per GB). Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 22 June 2008 15:27:34 Les Mikesell wrote: >> Anne Wilson wrote: >>>> I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. >>> Is there any compression? Does it span multiple CDs if necessary? >> It does an image copy and knows enough about most filesystems to only >> copy the used portions of the disk. Yes it compresses, no it doesn't >> split - or write CD's directly. It lets you store the image in a >> variety of places (network mount via samba, NFS, or ssh), local disks >> which could be USB external, etc.). After the image is stored, you can >> use a command line to convert the image to a bootable DVD image >> containing clonezilla and the image. But it doesn't split and you have >> to use some other utility to burn the DVD. It would probably work >> pretty well to install clonezilla to boot from a large USB disk where >> you could store images directly and restore from them. > > With usb sticks becoming so cheap that's a viable option, then. Thanks > > Anne > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >