Hello, Thread about installing Debian on USB stick brought me idea about backuping/cloning Debian PC.
Backuping living system is difficult task as backup can be application dependant (e.g. sql database). In fact you need to know how each application operates on disk and be sure that you will not catch up during some inconsistent state or you need to use application tool to backup data. That can be demanding task. It is quite oposite when you have cold system. Then backup can be just as simple just dd-ing your disk(s) block device(s). That brings me idea about installer option to add special partition which could launch application to clone you disks to backup drive. In simplest option it would be just dd whole disk to another disk having exactly same system ready to work. Cheers, Marek Mosiewicz http://marekmosiewicz.pl
