Op do 18-09-2003, om 05:57 schreef Karsten M. Self:

> You don't want to "image" your system, you want to back it up.

No, he wants to image it - just like he said.

Jasper said it's a testing system. I read that as saying: a system that
he likes to mess up quite often and thoroughly with trying out different
software etc. - after which he wants to quickly restore it to it's basic
configuration. That is to say, without having to do the Debian
installation again every time.

Exactly this is one of the things that disk imaging/cloning is meant for
(roll-out of batches of identical PC's is the other).

Jasper has already found partimage, and I can't recommend any better.
Another tool that I have been using lately for this purpose is savepart
<http://www.partition-saving.com/>. It is much more DOS/Windows oriented
- can save images to FAT partitions only - but has some nice features
too. I think every OS hacker/tinkerer/engineer who is dealing with both
Linux and Windows systems needs both programs in his/her toolbox.

> Thank you.
>
> Peace.

Yeah ;)


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Met vriendelijke groet,

Olav.


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