ghost

Ghost is open source software specifically designed to support GNU/Linux and UNIX-like operating systems that can clone (copy) the entire contents of a hard disk to another computer's hard disk or to storage media, automatically formatting and partitioning the target disk. The created images can be automatically or optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server or cloned locally. Its recovery environment comes in an ISO image file that needs to be written to a CD or other physical media. This provides an environment to perform offline system recovery or backup. Ghost can mount a backup volume to recover individual files. Ghost can copy the contents of one volume to another or convert a volume contents to a virtual disk in Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) or Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format.