On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Hossein Lanjanian <hossein.lanjanian at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi every body > I am a new centos user. > I installed centos 6 on my laptop and add some software to it. > How can I create a full image (boot able) back up of it. ( some thing like > windows full image backup). > please help! 'Clonezilla-live' is a bootable image that will do a menu-driven image copy to another disk or network storage. It will do a single disk at a time (no raid), or you can manually pick partitions. It knows enough about most filesystems to skip the unused portions. 'Relax-and-Recover' (ReaR) has a slightly different approach. It will create a bootable image including scripts to reconstruct your filesystem layout (including multiple disks, lvm, raid, etc.), and then restore a tar-type backup onto it. The actual backup part has several options included, or you can stop after the filesystem is ready and do your own restore. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com