[orca-list] Accessible imaging sollution

[Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal gmail com>]

Hi.

before i ask my question, let me explain what i'm looking for. i am new 
to linux, and am currently using a version of vinux to get  used to the 
operating system. over the years, i've worked on various projects within 
windows, and 1 of these was to find a reasonable imaging sollution which 
actually worked and that were accessible. the 2 which i have used in 
windows are called paragon drive image and drive snapshot. now, does a 
tool exist with similar functionality for ubuntu? i ideally want 
something with a GUI, yes i know the commandline's fine but its easier 
to instruct someone when using a GUI, and preferably something that 
supports NTFS, and that is accessible with orca. i have tried DD and 
partimage, and while DD did the job, i didn't have as much functionality 
as i would've liked and it was command line based. partimage looked 
good, but orca didn't read out any of the fields, and when a sited 
friend and i tried to back up a windows machine, the backup wasn't 
successful. i would like the ability to easily backup and restore 
images, when restoring to restore to a partition that is the same size 
or larger than my orriginal partition, it must support NTFS, be able to 
backup to an external hard drive/USB drive, and maybe have the ability 
to restore the MBR only from an image as well though this isn't vital. 
anyone got any ideas? am i asking for too much?

renegade334.