Best way to backup/ghost a working system

[kyfalcon]

What's the best way to backup/ghost a working system?

I have reinstalled too many time in the past couple of weeks and realize it would be much easier to restore a working system versus reinstall when I do something stupid and eff it up. What is the best way to make a restorable ghost of the image without having to reinstall a damn thing?

Thx,
Kevin

[tkmedia]

I use clonezilla and save my image to a samba share.

Works wonders.

Tim

[purps]

^^^ What he said.

If you have an ext4 partition (which I inadvertently selected in my haste, but doesn't seem to be causing any problems), you need to use the "expert" mode and use option -q2 when it asks. I think it's also worth selecting the fsck option as well.

Happy cloning.

Cheers,
Matt.

[kyfalcon]

thanks guys, I'll look into that.

[JoakimL]

I also use CloneZilla, works great. Just a hint: don't put any media files on the boot disk; you'll get a disk image of 4-15 GB and backup/restore will be very fast.

/Joakim

[kyfalcon]

All of my media files are on a separate drive.

Thanks

[brononius]

I also use CloneZilla, works great. Just a hint: don't put any media files on the boot disk; you'll get a disk image of 4-15 GB and backup/restore will be very fast.

/Joakim

Since linuxmce handles this automaticlly (the location of the files), it's a bit hard to arrange this. Or how did you manage to do this?

[purps]

When LMCE detects the partition that your OS is on, you will be asked the question whether you want the partition to be used automatically - select "no, only specifically when told to". Or ignore it completely (this is what I do).

To change this behaviour at a later date, find the partition in web admin (under Core in My Devices), and look for the option "use automatically" and uncheck.

Cheers,
Matt.