[BBLISA] block level backup windows

[Tom Metro]

Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a decent way to shutdown and get a good block-level
> hard drive backup, which I haven't already thought of?

I hear Clonezilla (http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/) is good for this, 
but I haven't tried it yet. It may even include a GUI to make the 
process friendly. It is built on a CD bootable Linux distribution.

I've typically used SystemRescueCd (http://www.sysresccd.org/) for this 
kind of thing. Although it includes GUI tools, like QtParted, the 
overall process still requires command line familiarity.

Another approach to achieving the user friendliness you want might be 
creating a custom CD based on one of these distributions that fully 
automates the backup.

  -Tom

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