[CLUE-Talk] Partition Image

[Roger Frank]

I like to try new software out often in alpha or beta
statges.  Sometimes that renders my Linux system a
mess and I wish I could get it back to the way it
was before my experimentation.  I just tried a nifty
utility - Partition Image - that worked well.

http://partimage.sourceforge.net

To test it out, I rolled an image of my root partition
/dev/sda1 to a large IDE drive /dev/hda1.
[boot from floppies supplied - boot and root floppy;
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt; partimage; sda1 (*)save;
saves an image with gzip compression].  

Then I booted normally and did rm -rf on /boot, /etc,
/bin and other directories that were on sda1.

Then I booted with the floppies again, logged
in as root, and restored. [login as root;
mke2fs /dev/sda1; e2fsck /dev/hda1;
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt; partimage; sda1 (*)restore].

When this was done, I rebooted normally and
everything was exactly as it had been before.
I like Partition Image a lot.  Check it out.

-- 
Roger Frank
Ponderosa High School, Colorado