mkCDrec - Make CD-ROM Recovery
"mkCDrec makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso), including backups of the linux system to the same CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape.
After a disaster (disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was (at the time mkCDrec was run) with the command /etc/recovery/start-restore.sh [...]
MkCDrec supports ext2 , ext3, minix, xfs , jfs, reiserfs file systems, LVM and software RAID (multiple devices). Each file system is backed up as a compressed tar archive (including the tar log). The compress program used is the user's choice (compress, gzip, bzip2, lzop,...) :-) [...]
mkCDrec Project Philosophy:
Combine a bootable rescue CD-ROM with disaster recovery scripts and optional utilities . How do we get there? With a simple "make" command ;-) [...]
The make CD-ROM recovery (mkCDrec) tool was designed to recover from CD-ROM a complete GNU/Linux system (Intel only) after a disaster happened, such as a disk crash or system intrusion.
It is the purpose that you run the mkCDrec tool from time to time to have an up-to-date snapshot of your system.
The tool was made to be as simple as possible, therefore, do not expect a fantastic GUI of some kind. All it need is a console, and in case of disaster you will be glad to see a console prompt !!!"
http://mkcdrec.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mkcdrec/
http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/introduction.html