[SWLUG] Taking a disk image

[Bradley, Peter]

Hi all,

 

I had a bit of a shock yesterday, when for a ghastly hour I thought I
was going to lose my entire installation.  OK, I have my data backed up,
but the thought of having to go back and install all the tools I've
installed and configured over the years was not making me happy (I'm
talking about things like Netbeans, Eclipse, subversion (no, it doesn't
work out of the box on a SUSE install), CASE tools, Zend and the Zend
Server that took me weeks to get working, Crossover Office and all the
various Windows bits I've installed with it under WINE, the OU VLE,
browser extensions, etc etc).

 

Does anyone know of a tool that will take an image of all my disk
partitions (Linux and Windows), and the MBR, so that I could - if I
wanted - just slap in a new HDD and write the image to it such that it
would then boot up and I'd be back to normal?

 

Fortunately, yesterday's problem seems to have settled down at least.
I'm not sure it's actually solved: at least I'm not leaving my box on
and unattended at the moment.  However, it worked OK for the last four
hours or so of yesterday.

 

All advice gratefully received.

 

 

Peter

 

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