What's the best way to backup/restore or mirror Ubuntu ?

[bmwman]

What's the best way to backup/restore Ubuntu? I use Acronis Drive Image up or Norton Ghost to backup or restore my XP laptop. I use Ubuntu on all my other machines and would like to save a full back up after a fresh install. I need to create image file(snapshot) of the whole file system, possibly bit by bit like Ghost does and be able to restore that image on multiple PCs.

Any suggestions?

P.S. Maybe it would need to have a bootable CD or USB flash drive to do the full backup/restore since the file system is mounted or restore without having working OS?

[Pumalite]

Try Clonezilla:
http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/
You can also use PartImage:
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page

[bmwman]

Clonezilla looks interesting. Thank you for the suggestion.

;)

[Gemu]

I would like to do the same thing, only I want to do it after I have all the updates and programs that I want or need in my Ubuntu installation. Then I want to burn it to dvd. I lost a system restore cd and was trying to find a way to create another one for my windows media system. Thats pretty much what got me on this linux kick.

[acreda]

you can also try more of a incredimental backup solution if you are looking for more then just a snapshot,

Try Timevault which i have been using

https://launchpad.net/timevault

[linux_tech]

A few other choices are:
grsync
remastersys
reconstructor
ddrescue