Re: [Hampshire] Drive Imaging

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Author: trotter
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To: hlug090104, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Drive Imaging
At 07:21 25/02/2009, you wrote:

>On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:03 +0000, Rob Malpass wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Sorry - but if a newbie question - but do people have a favourite
> > drive imaging program?
> >
> > I'm looking for something to take an image of both my NASses (is that
> > how to spell the plural?!) which can happily be Linux and one
> > specifically for XP.
> >
> > As far as Linux is concerned - is this the sort of thing mkisofs was
> > built for?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Rob
>
>mkisofs will make a ISO image of files (regardless of what they are).
>Many of the hardcore Linux folk will cite DD, rsync and others - which
>are excellent in their own way.
>
>However, for a quick 'fix' similar to Ghost/Acronis/Others have a look
>at 'Clonezilla' http://clonezilla.org/ The website and interface win no
>awards for aesthetics but it works very well indeed.



Does either clonezilla or partimage support HFS+ the mac journaling filesystem?
It would reduce the file size of the image a lot if it does.

I currently use Norton ghost 11 which does fat NTFS and ext3 fine but
not the mac
file system.

thanks

Martin N