Nice, but ... Can it be used to clone hard disks in a sector by sector basis, like ghost ? Sometimes, we need to create an exact image of the original hard disk.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Durf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:15 PM Subject: Re: Ghost like products > 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. > > > > -- > -------------- > Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. > Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
