I've been eyeing Clonezilla (free software):
What is Clonezilla ? Linux World and expo exhibitor
You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial
package Norton Ghost(R), and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition
Image. The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot
of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably
also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost
Corporate Edition(R) with multicasting. Well, now there is an
OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with
unicasting and multicasting!
Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and
udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of
Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla server
edition. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and
restore. While Clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it
can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves
and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the
clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla server edition
was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10
minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via
multicasting!
clonezilla.org
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM, James Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What other products are the out there for managing HDD image files that give
> you the ability to push out the images to workstations besides Ghost? I know
> about clonezilla but I dont know enough Linux for that. Thanks for any
> replies.
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