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try G4U ghost for Unix... works very well.

Tim wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:34 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
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>>I can understand archiving /home and /etc - and some stuff in /var
>>(databases etc. - though databases really should be dumped before
>>backup) - but why / ?
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>Well, I can imagine it being a very simple way to restore a system after
>it got futzed up, or to clone one.  It avoids all the installations
>required if you didn't.
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