Can anyone recommend
a good open source/freeware tool for imaging disks and partitions - and ideally
something that fits into the unattended philosophy. Note this is for a disaster
recovery scenario, not multiple installs (Repeat the mantra - Imaging Bad.
Unattended Good)
Currently I'm using
a modification of the Unattended PXE boot to map to a network
share containing a copy of the dos version of Norton Ghost, and make
an image of the partition to a compressed file. Being a cheap skate
however, I'd like to save the 50 quid and do it will free
tools.
One feature of Ghost
that I can't seem to find in other products is that if you image a 10Gb
partition containing only 2Gb of data, you can end up with a compressed file of
around 1Gb, rather than a bit-for-bit copy of the whole
10Gb.
Anyone got any
ideas?
JMB
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