PING (Partimage is Not Ghost) is a comprehensive Linux LiveCD that does more than Norton’s Ghost, but isn’t as gumpy. Effitek explains why their product is worth your not-money:

• Probably the best available Linux toolbox for rescuing a system.
• Backup and Restore partitions or files locally or to the network (MS Network Shared directory, NFS, FTP or SSHFS).
• Backup and Restore the BIOS data as well.
• Either burn a bootable CD / DVD, either integrate within a PXE / RIS environment.
• Possibility to Blank local admin’s password.
• Create your own restoration bootable DVD.
• Partition and Format a disk before installing Windows (so to make sure your unattended Windows installation will happen on the right partition).

Pretty swank, right? Yeah, we thought so.