Product is backup and Recovery v16,.. been executes of an ISO image cd....
>Back up the entire hard disk with Linux installation:
Yes Full disk image
>Now you're planning to:
>Restore the created archive to different hard disk device
Essentially yes,.. although I did try and restore just the main disk root partition/filesystem
this gave error and failed.. "file system has allocation errors due to cross linked files
Don't quiet understand this,.. as I could ( I think ) dd a backup back,....
As restoring root partition failed I endeavoured to retore entire disk,.. as other partitions had no useful data on...
On restoring entire disk,.. this to failed,.. as such saying I needed to restore boot stuff,...
This I did using latest System-Rescue,... although this did work it appeared to install a debian boot and there was some funny file left,.. which caused boot to pause for 90 seconds before timing out,...
I therefore started from scratch and rebuilt from scratch...
From you final comments do I just have to specify RAW copy mode...