I know there are several utilities whereby you could actually mount the backup image as a complete drive. Can't say that I've used any of them as most of our stuff is NTFS related (thus we use NTFSClone). At any rate, I know that several of the utilities mentioned in crash3m's post stated the possibility of mounting the backup image as a full 'drive'. Hate to think of the access speed on a DVD+R/W, but it might be something to consider for immediate quick access.
Dave
--- crash3m [email protected] wrote:
I've actually done this a few times, there are several tools available to you depending on your exact needs. Look into Mondoarchive http://www.mondorescue.org, partimage http://www.partimage.org, and clonesys http://www.trickytools.com/php/clonesys.php
I personally used partimage, but it took a bit of fighting to get it to deal with soft-raid and LVM, but I got it done. Mondo used to work well for me, but I fought with it for a week and got no where. I of course found clonesys after the fact, so I cant offer an opinion on it.