Hi all,

has anybody tried to ghost a partition under arch?

i was using norton ghost years ago to burn CD's to backup important 
parititions. Now i would like to make a backup of the vista and 
lenovo rescue and recovery patitions so that i can remove them 
completely from the harddrive.

the idea is to copy the paritions (5gb and 40gb) to DVD's (DVD burner 
is connected over firewire and works fine in arch) and be able later 
to copy them back from the DVD's to a harddrive, if i happen to need 
it. 

for now i do not need to use vista, it takes over 3 minutes to boot up 
(arch boots in 42s including diverse daemons and kdm, kde login 
happens in 10s with quite some apps open) and is quite unstable (yes, 
it is up-to-date).

i have checked and there exist 

Mondo
http://www.mondorescue.org/

Ghost 4 Linux (g4l)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l

mondo seems to be able to make CD/DVDs directly, g4l not. i don't mind 
burning the iso's by hand, if the image creation and later recovery 
works perfect. 

of course there is dd -> iso and then burn. but i hoped that in the 
last 16 years there was something more user-friendly available 
now. :)

any experiences? any other ideas?

thanx in advance,

Damir






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