Equivalent to System restore?

[shengchieh]

I have

hardware - howto
Backups
http://www.tpci.com/linux_backup_software.htm (Linux Backup Softwares)
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ (rsync)
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2...e326.shtml (rsync)
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete...ery-HOWTO/ (Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO)
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-...store.html (Backup and Restore Procedures; date???)

softwares
Backups
http://www.rsnapshot.org (non-commercial; rsnapshot)
http://www.partimage.org/ (non-commercial; Partition Image)
http://cdtar.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; cdtar)
http://konserve.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; Konserve)
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ (non-commercial; g4u)
http://dar.linux.free.fr/ (non-commercial; DAR)
http://www.amanda.org/ (non-commercial; AMANDA)
http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/index.html (non-commercial; mkCDrec)
http://www.dirvish.org/ (non-commercial: DIRVISH)
http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/HomePage (non-commercial; SBackup)
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; BackupPC)
http://www.sysresccd.org/ (non-commercial; SystemRescueCd)
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ (non-commercial; rdiff-backup)
http://www.bacula.org/en/ (non-commercial: Bacula)
http://kbackup.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial: KBackup)
http://backintime.le-web.org/ (non-commercial: Back In Time)
http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page (non-commercial: FSArchiver)
http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial: luckyBackup)
http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/ (non-commercial: Grsync)
http://www.mondorescue.org/ (non-commercial: Mondo Rescue)
https://spideroak.com/ (non-commercial; SpiderOak; online backup; includes sync and sharing)
http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/crashplan.html (commercial; free software, but paid storage; CrashPlan)
http://www.arkeia.com/ (commercial; Arkeia)
http://www.veritas.com/ (commercial; VERITAS )
http://www.thekompany.com/products/tkbackup/ (commercial: tkBackup)
http://www.acronis.com/ (commercial; Acronis)
http://visualversion.com/backupsw/index.html (commercial; BackupSW)
http://www.getdropbox.com/ (DropBox)
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Web/Utilities/...ndex.shtml (various utilities)
http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Administra...ackup.html (various utilities)
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895 (10 outstanding Linux backup utilities; list; 7/21/09)
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/60...are-1.html (60 OS Replacements for Storage Software; software list include compression, database, data recovery, etc; October 15, 2012)

Pardon the redundancies (cop and pasted from  my website).

Sheng-Chieh