Just tested on a 10GB PC over the lan using the command line options coupled with psexec. Image taken in 6 minutes. Restored to SSD in under 2 minutes. Perfect. This will drastically reduce user down-time.
(I could probably do faster if I saved the intermediary image file to an SSD instead of my 7,200 RPM D Drive). Only gotcha is that the MBR gets hosed if you restore to a larger drive. So within the program I have to select Restore Partition Structure, when in turn shrinks the drive and restores the MBR. The image will then boot properly. No biggie, I'm slaving the drive anyway so it's easy to expand it afterwards in Disk Manager. Took 1 second with an SSD, and kept the MBR in tact. Thanks again Cesar. -Sam From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Cayze Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN? Good to know. They have some tips on the site about to remotely start it using pstools, that should cover all my needs. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CESAR.ABREG0 . Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN? yw. BTW, I'm not sure how you are going to go about getting the back up but just to give you an idea on what I did. I wrote an HTA (ugly coding btw) to schedule a job remotely on a list of machines and save the clone onto a file share. the task would call a VBscript that would map a drive user/pass inbeded, call the snapshot.exe and start the process. very simple but was effective. can be easily done with a batch file as well or powershell. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote: This looks very promising. Exactly what I was looking for. THANKS! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CESAR.ABREG0 . Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN? I've used this tool http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/ for backups that run while user is working. I used it create backups for OS upgrades. it will also clone other drives with the backup. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote: Both drives are connected via IntelR C216 Chipset SATA III controllers. Source drives are 7200 RPM. Guessing the lag is pulling the data off these. The write speeds to the SSDs are obviously no issue. I can toss my 10GB image onto them in flash. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN? What interface are the drives connected to? And how much data needs to be copied? 40GB / 2 hours = ~6MB/sec -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Cayze Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013 2:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN? I'm going from Sata II to Sata III And the new laptops coming in are PCIe M.2 SATA III. Can't wait. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Terry Dickson Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:51 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN? Just wondering since you say that these are 40GB Sata Drives are they Sata1 Drives? Maybe the speed of the drive is getting in your way. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Cayze Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN? Yes. But still doesn't alleviate my problem. I have plenty of local cloning options up my sleeve. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guyer, Don Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN? Just a thought but, did the SSDs come with its own software to "clone" to the new drive? Mine did, though I chose to do a fresh install. Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory & Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: [email protected] Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. Description: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Cayze Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 1:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Cloning drives... over the LAN? Swapping a lot of my users HDs to SSDs. I've been doing this after the user leaves for the day, connecting the drive via SATA, and cloning. ~40GB, and takes me about 2 hours each. Need to a way to speed this up. These are all laptops which the user almost always takes home. Is there a product that will seed a drive over the lan during the day, then do one last incremental/verify to the cloned drive when I'm ready for the final switch? Then I can do most of the cloning during the day and limit user down time. (And my time). -Sam Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you do not have permission to disclose, copy, distribute, or open any attachments. 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