backup entire system

[Kevin Fries]

On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 13:42 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I got things just the way I want them. How do I make a mirror image of my
> >> hard drive?
> 
> This is usually the wrong way to approach backups.[0]  What if your disk dies,
> and you need to restore your stuff onto a disk with a different size?[1] 
> You'll have to mount the images loopback and cp everything over, which makes
> things less simple than you want.

I would have to agree.  I have used several, but most of my experience
is in networked environments where I generally use BackupPC.  It works
awesome, and provides a webpage resore process per user/node.

This would work with a central storage system, not so great with a
removable drive system, but it could be used this way.

Take a look

Kevin