[SWLUG] Taking a disk image

[Emmanuel Durand]

Hi all!
What about RAID? I've been reading on that recently, and thought it could be
a good idea to set up on my home desktop. Can't help as to how to set it up
though, I must study the question harder. But it may not exactly be what
you're looking for Peter.

Emmanuel

Hi all,
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> 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).
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> All advice gratefully received.
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> Peter
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