doktor5000 wrote:Why is that, would you mind to elaborate on that?
Many people i know successfully use e.g.
redobackup to easily achieve full-disk bare-metal restore and fast recovery times due to that.
I have used duplicate images for disaster recovery etc.; however, the OP was talking about moving an existing installation to their laptop. Looks like I should have made this clearer in my post as what I meant was using a duplicate image to populate new systems is not a good policy, as using kickstart, unattended, etc, makes for greater stability, flexibility, and ease of deployment. Different hardware on his laptop may mean different kernel mods drivers etc. If the original install uses the same hardware as the laptop he wants to populate than using a backup image would work fine.
Disaster recovery or even creating duplicate boxes for different tiers (e.g. production, testing, development, etc.) is another scenario which I don't believe applies to the OP, but where duplicate imaging does come in handy.
I am not familiar with the solution that you referenced, but as a systems admin I find that many pre-packaged backup solutions for linux are often just GUI front-ends for standard tools such as dd or rsync. That's not to say that redobackup is not a great product, it very well may be, but again using backup images to populate new systems is generally regarded as bad policy at least pretty much any place that I have worked.