Do you need to shut your machine down to use clonezilla? After a quick skim of the site, I can't find anything that says you don't. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> 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. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080623/d8461b03/attachment-0005.html>