Re: [H] Linux imaging

[Ben Ruset]

Tar is taking files out of a compressed (well, if it's gzipped) archive 
and recreating them on your system.

Imaging is doing a sector by sector copy, archival, compression, and 
sector by sector restore on another machine.

Now, if you were dd'ing disks, I'd say you were imaging.

BTW, we do tar restores of our Linux boxen here. :)