Free Software Magazine: Backing Up your System with Free Software

“You’ve spent hours installing, configuring, and tweaking your
system into perfection. Every device is working properly, every
patch applied, every last last application is up to date, and your
system is contently purring like a lion with a belly full of
wildebeest. This is a prime time to save an image of your system in
case anything screws it up. There are many commercial solutions
available, but what free utilities will properly back up your
system?

“Before we go any further, let’s define exactly what a hard
drive disk image is…”

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