[CentOS] Centos 6 full backup software?

Wed Jul 16 20:54:37 UTC 2014
Brian Miller <centos at fullnote.com>

On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 21:50 +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote:
> Hi All ;)
> 
> I need a good tool to backup whole system on block level rather than file
> level and easy to use. I currently need to backup to an USB disc (50+ GB of
> data) a system and then reinstall it. In the future if needed I will revert
> to the system from backup ;)
> 
> What can you recommend?

'dd'.  I use it routinely when doing p2v migrations of older hardware
and when migrating heavily customized systems between hardware.

Which brings up the point maybe you might want to investigate
virtualization options if you strongly suspect you'll have a requirement
to revert via a bare metal restoration procecure.