I would use clonezilla (http://clonezilla.org/) to make a "initial system image" (its really partimage and DD wrapped up in a series of easy scripts) or you can use redo as a live cd (http://redobackup.org/) which is a great disk cloning tool, but it does not play nice with windows file systems, or at least i have not figured it out yet. Then you can use rsync to keep your critical user files backed up (even across multiple systems to a central location) and you now have wicked fast disaster recovery. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > I got things just the way I want them. How do I make a miiror image of my > hard drive? dd? Or is there a more user friendly way? I kinda want to do it > like a raid  would do it. You know.... where I would just recopy the image > if my computer gets corrupted and it would be like the day I made the > image...... hmmmm.... google it! I found system rescue cd! > (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) DOes this sound good? What do you all > recommend? You know, on the first page about this one of the programs is > partimage and they say that one of the limitations of it is that it does not > support ext4 filesystem. hmmmmm.... after a bit of reading me thinks this > doesn't work with ext4 even though the 'Main Page' says it does. Do any of > you know any differently?..... hmmmmm..... I've been looking but all of the > copy programs say  they support ext2 & 3 but not 4. What do you say? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss