[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> Q. Is there a way to use a program like "Norton Ghost" to backup you current
>> working system so if you are stupid like me and FUBAR your system you can
>> bring it back before the WAF drops to the point hat she starts to make you
>> sit there and program the video (what is one of those?) so she doesn't miss
>> here shows !!!
>> A . ????
> 
> I think you need to upgrade to WIFE v2.1.  It contains less bugs, doesn't nag 
> you nearly as much, and can even do the dishes!  However, doing that will 
> force you to upgrade to SON v1.13, which has been know to cause troubles.  
> 
> Anyhow, regardless of all of that, recent versions of Ghost do support ext2 
> and ext3 file systems, but not other (now, mainsteram) Linux file systems.  
> Nevertheless, I think you can always perform a block-by-block copy of a hard 
> disk, but your image will be the same size as the drive.  dd can do this for 
> you.

There is a program that I use called partimage that will backup only the 
  partition. It doesn't backup empty blocks like dd does, only those 
with data on them.

Jon
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