Re: copying a disk image to restore on linux

[Mel <rockchick () totalise co uk>]

I think Mondo Rescue might be what you're looking or.  It's a 
back-up/disaster recovery tool which creates an image of either your entire 
filesystem or a subset of your files, and can be found at 
http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/


At 03:42 PM 24/12/2002 +0530, phani () myrealbox com wrote:
> hi all,
>    I would like to know if there are any utilities on linux (preferably 
> freeware) which can create a complete image of the hard-drive. I know dd 
> exists, but that would create the image of the entire drive. If the drive 
> was (say) 40 GB and the free space is 20 GB then that would be a waste of 
> space. Is there a tool which would let me create the image of the used 
> space on the drive ?
>
> thank you
> gangadhar