Clonezilla is awesome but not something I would give to grandma. Any cloning software is destructive *crap I cloned the wrong way* and therefore wouldn't recommend it to anyone not familiar. These kinds of things I am happy to do for people as a tech person, spyware removal is really the only thing I hate. The thing I like most about Clonezilla is it shows drive serials and other information which makes it easier to determine which way you are going especially if you have to of the same model drive which I often run into when setting up offices and labs.
As far as backup topics, I think that it is awesome and by no means boring. I always like going over this stuff and swapping ideas as I deal with this frequently enough. Just a few hours ago I dealt with my first LVM mounting of an old Fedora install onto a new CentOS install to copy files. I have mounted ext partitions plenty of times but had to dig around a bit to figure out how to handle LVMs. A bunch of the websites I came across were incorrect in their information. I would love to have a meeting with people that have already dealt with all this kind of stuff and figured out the easiest or fastest ways to work around things like this. Matthias Johnson
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