Linux & Acronis TrueImage

Does anyone know whether or not Acronis TrueImage Home 11 can be used to back up Ubuntu? I have read around, and it looks like the bootable version of Acronis (which is actually a modified version Linux) supports a number of filesystems, among them ext3.

I tried to back up Ubuntu to my external NTFS hard drive, but when I booted Acronis, it could not find the archive, even though there were two images of Vista it could detect. It is probably because of the Ubuntu archive’s filesystem. If I were to create a small ext3 partition on my external, could the archive be detected that way? Would this work?

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: found this on the Acronis website:

Supported File Systems
• FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3, ReiserFS, Linux Swap

What am I doing wrong? Does an ext3 image require an ext3 storage volume?

 

Have you tried remastersys? It can make an iso of Ubuntu (bootable).
Otherwise, I'm not sure it would be bootable.
Yes, maybe an ext3 image needs an ext3 volume??????

 

I will consider remastersys, but only once I've gotten to the bottom of this issue. I'll just try and see for myself. Acronis should work.

 

Any luck with Acronis? Been trying to get it working on my Studio 15 with BartPE but I can't get anything going.

 

Bog, I can't help with your specific question. Just wanted to suggest a link that's a little old, but useful none-the-less. Backup and Restore your system - Commando style.

I've been meaning to write a script for this, just haven't found/made the time to do so...

 

^ Yes, I've seen that; unfortunately it doesn't really address the issue of whether Acronis works with Linux or not. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, though.

 

Who needs Acronis when you have dd and gzip/bzip?

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dd

But that may just be me who likes doing things the hard (but free) way

 

Yes sir, I know. That's why I prefaced my OP the way in which I did.

As to your question of whether ATI 11 Home - works with Linux... just from a relatively quick glance at their site, it doesn't appear so. Not in the sense of installing it into Ubuntu - duh right? XD It does show support for some Linux filesystems though. That leads me to think you could backup a Linux box on your network, from a windows machine.

To be a little more thorough, I kept looking. On this page I found that apparently version 9.1 ( ATI 9.1 Enterprise Server) works under certain *nix flavors. Scroll down toward the bottom of the page, if you've not seen this already.

No worries Bog. I just know that it's as fool proof and reliable as they come. IF your drives have bad/corrupt sectors, then dd (as Pitabred suggested) or PartImage would be a VERY good choice... and to top it off, both are FOSS.

 

Ouch, ATI 9.1 for Enterprise Server license costs $700. Not cool for a home Linux user. Well, thanks for the info and your time in digging up this information. I guess I'll look at other backup solutions.

 

You can extract the kernel from the Acronis boot cd and boot it from grub as well