[lug] Cloning hard disks?

[John Dollison]

Last year I gave up on using tape drives and CD-RW's for data backup.  
Instead I purchased a second 40GB hard drive, identical to the first, and 
used Norton Ghost to do disk cloning.  It worked fine so long as I was using 
only FAT32 and ext2 partitions, but now that I've upgraded both computers to 
RH 7.3 (using ext3 partitions) I can't use Norton Ghost.  My computer hangs 
every time.  I checked the Symantec website, and it says that my version of 
Ghost (2001) only supports Red Hat up to ver 6.2, and the latest version of 
Ghost only supports Red Hat up to ver 7.2.  I've also tried (unsuccessfully) 
to clone my drive with Data Lifeguard Tools.

So my question is:
What other disk-cloning software is out there, that can support ext3 
filesystems, or can just do a bit-by-bit / sector-by-sector copy of my 
drive, regardless of the partitions; and is affordable (preferably free)?

Also, what's currently your favorite partition-management software?

Thanks,

John Dollison
Boulder, CO 80303


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