Mondo archive examples - just got intro'd to this program at work about a year ago, works very well - creates ISO images of a running system that can be restored very simply later on by installing like an OS - from CD...

This basically what is in man mondoarchive - /home and other places are backed up in another fashion, so don't need to have these to restore my base desktop..

mondoarchive -Oi -7 -d /backups/mondo/ -E "/backups /home /media /opt /srv /vz" -N -p `hostname`-`date +%Y-%m-%d` -s 680m

• -O - backup (that's an uppercase "O")
• -i - backup to ISO files
• -d - backup destination
• -7 - compression level (0-9)
• -E - exclude list
• -N - Don't include network mounted filesystems
• -p - filename prefix - 'stead of mondorescue-1.iso, etc.
• -s - specify max ISO file sizes m or g