http://www.osnews.com/story/23054/Disk_Imaging_with_Clonezilla Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 24 May 2013 11:37:05 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?415114 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415114 One of my favourites is parted magic http://partedmagic.com/ some really useful tools, the ntfs tools for instance make deploying Windows boxes so much quicker and easier.

In the past I bought tools of half the utility. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gone fishing) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415116 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415116 nuff said Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415117 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415117 Well, ok, give credit where it's due: "It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!"

Respect. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415118 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415118 With UDPCast I used to take 25 minutes to clone a 60 GB hard drive to 80 computers. Thats nice and I really recommend UDPCast. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sodki) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415123 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415123 This summary from the FOG page is misleading... they support Linux too, just not LVM partitions due to a limitation in partimage

From http://www.fogproject.org/
"Fog is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for Windows XP and Vista that ties together a few open-source tools with a php-based web interface. Fog doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE. Also with fog many drivers are built into the kernel, so you don't really need to worry about drivers (unless there isn't a linux kernel module for it). Fog also supports putting an image that came from a computer with a 80GB partition onto a machine with a 40GB hard drive as long as the data is less than 40GB." Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (flydpnkrtn) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415126 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415126 If I'd like to clone to a ssd drive and not touch every single block on the destination drive, is this the thing for me? Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wanker90210) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415134 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415134 You could partition your ssd drive and clone a partition form one disk to the partition of your ssd. Or, depending on your needs, you might try creating a loopback device and saving it on your ssd drive. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jessesmith) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415145 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415145 I use it to backup/clone the HD of my laptop (Vista, eComstation, OpenSolaris) Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (csynt) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415186 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415186 Clonzilla website bookmarked for the day I need this. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RIchard James13) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?415431 http://www.osnews.com/thread?415431 It turns out I can multicast the images WAY faster than the machines themselves can even hope to be packaged. Woot.

The shippers hate you, but I love the product! I can currently image 95 machines at a whack, completion time: 21 minutes.

You guys rock! Thanks so much. Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dougsk) Comments