"Boo tit" was recommended in Fred Langa Newsletter for Linux backup and other utilities. Has anyone used it? What's your opinion?
Extracted from Lang Newsletter: My current recommendation, BootIt, is perfectly happy imaging FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS file systems; and can directly write images to hard drives or to CD-R/RE or DVD+R+RE-R-RE drives. It's also a partition manager, letting you create/delete/copy/move/resize partitions at will; and it's a boot manager, too! Thus, this one $35 tool can replace a separate boot manager, imaging tool, and partitioning tool; typically costing over $100, combined. And it's vastly more flexible than any of the Windows-based backup/imaging/partitioning tools, because it's OS independent. See this special issue for more info, including BootIt's drawbacks: http://langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-07-03.htmc OS-independent imaging (as above) is the gold standard of backups: Nothing beats it. But if you want a traditional backup solution for Linux, there are many offerings available, both free and commercial. For example, Linspire (formerly "Lindows") has this step-by-step guide that can be adapted to almost any version of Linux: http://langa.com/u/7f.htm Plus, there are classic guides like this "Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOW TO" ( http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-backup-recovery.php ); or animated guides like this IBM tutorial on "How to back up your Linux machines" ( http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linuxbu-i.html ; registration required); and lots more general info: http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+backup http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=linux+backup But again, a tool like BootIt works on *any* operating system, so it can back up whatever you're running, including dual-boot or other setups.
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