"What supports what" is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device backup if you like. This is your basic choice in backup - device or fs. Me personally, dd_rescue - far better than raw dd.
Your backup strategy has implications for partitioning Linux. I make backup partitions with the same byte count. But that's over the top for most. They don't need to match exactly for dev bkups. And of course you don't go dev-to-dev all the time, sometimes dev-to-file and file-to-dev. Don't forget the MBR which dd can backup: dd if=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1 of=MBR.dd Who knows what Linux formats Ghost may or may not support. It's passe even for Windows. They use DOS drivers for everything. That's right 16-bit DOS. I am amazed Norton can make money selling stuff like that. Norton may have hosed your fs. For repairs and backup it's better to boot something like www.grml.org live CD with lots of good admin tools and fs support. You can run ext3 repairs from that. Man e2fsck or whatnot. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
