Very few 'imagers' can backup software raid volumes... Maybe the free software called partimage ?
Re: Linux True Image / Image size huge! : Solved! Strange... Some other products have LVM support, but do not have this drawback... For example,...
I've backuped it using the LRS http://lrs.linbox.org They also support all Linux file systems, and LVM v1 and v2.
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