> What I've done in the past is before the nightly backup write a small > file to the root of each filesystem giving disk geometries. You can > then use any recovery DVD to partition and reload the OS. If rear can > do this for me it would be __much__ neater! According to rear webpage: https://relax-and-recover.org/about/ Extensive disk layout implementation, incl. * HWRAID (HP SmartArray) * SWRAID * LVM * multipathing * DRBD * iSCSI * LUKS (encrypted partitions and filesystems) I personally used rear to restore lvm volume groups and several logical volumes with success. I will test a more complicated layout until the end of this year and can let you know about the findings. Regards, Felix