[olug] [OT] Drive copy utilities?

[Adam Lassek]

Clonezilla is an excellent solution for windows and linux machines with some
caveats.

When you clone a windows system with Clonezilla, it uses Ntfsclone which is
very fast, and only copies the data rather than the entire filesystem. It is
possible to automatically change hostname and SID but it requires setting up
a DRBL-Winroll server which I do not have experience doing. You can upload
images to another server several different ways, including Samba share, SSH
or FTP. The only problem I have run into is that occasionally if you clone a
system with a partition that spans the full size of the disk it will cause
errors when you deploy the image to another drive, even if it is the same
size. Resizing the partition with parted prevents this from happening.

For non-NTFS partitions it uses PartImage.

On Nov 7, 2007 6:04 PM, Kevin Hinze <kevinhinze at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Howdy folks,
>
> I am looking for a standalone disk copy utility for imaging one hard drive
> to
> another. For this particular application, I am using PATA drives. The
> source
>
> drive will be ~250 GB while the dest drive will be ~400 GB.
>
> I want something OS independent, so something that is a standalone
> bootable
> CD
> is highly preferred. Shareware and freeware is great but I am also looking
> at
> commercial software, something akin to Ghost. As an aside, Ghost might be
> too
> confusing for some end-users to easily follow instructions, but maybe not.
>
> While a roll-it-yourself Linux solution comes to mind for many folks, I'm
> not
> looking at this as a primary option, unless I've missed some great Linux
> project out there to do just this.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~Kevin Hinze
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