[orca-list] Accessible imaging sollution

[John covici <covici ccs covici com>]

I don't know of any such solution under Linux, ntfs support is
generally read only, there are programs which claim otherwise, but in
my experience they don't work well.  Also, rdiff-backup is the only
program I know which backs up an ntfs file and its security profile,
so for ntfs partitions, I would stick to paragon, since you can
restore to a bigger partition, etc.

on Sunday 06/14/2009 Mobeen Iqbal(mobeeniqbal gmail com) wrote
> Hi.
>
> before i ask my question, let me explain what i'm looking for. i am new 
> to linux, and am currently using a version of vinux to get  used to the 
> operating system. over the years, i've worked on various projects within 
> windows, and 1 of these was to find a reasonable imaging sollution which 
> actually worked and that were accessible. the 2 which i have used in 
> windows are called paragon drive image and drive snapshot. now, does a 
> tool exist with similar functionality for ubuntu? i ideally want 
> something with a GUI, yes i know the commandline's fine but its easier 
> to instruct someone when using a GUI, and preferably something that 
> supports NTFS, and that is accessible with orca. i have tried DD and 
> partimage, and while DD did the job, i didn't have as much functionality 
> as i would've liked and it was command line based. partimage looked 
> good, but orca didn't read out any of the fields, and when a sited 
> friend and i tried to back up a windows machine, the backup wasn't 
> successful. i would like the ability to easily backup and restore 
> images, when restoring to restore to a partition that is the same size 
> or larger than my orriginal partition, it must support NTFS, be able to 
> backup to an external hard drive/USB drive, and maybe have the ability 
> to restore the MBR only from an image as well though this isn't vital. 
> anyone got any ideas? am i asking for too much?
>
> renegade334.
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