** owen.churchcowley owen.churchcowley@ntlworld.com [2003-08-12 20:39]:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:08:37 +0100 (BST) Chris Glover chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Paul Tansom wrote:
Anyone got any experiences with disk imaging software? I've used Norton Ghost in the past (didn't like it at all, but that was quite a long time ago and to be honest I can't really remember why - may have been the fact that you had to license a copy for every machine you used it on, so to clone 9 machines from a master required 10 licenses - as I said, it's a while ago now). Currently I'm using Drive Image from Powerquest, but as that doesn't support (spit) XP I'm going to have to upgrade.
I've used the latest version of Drive Image at home and work, and both work well with Linux and XP. In fact I have a nice backup of my laptop burnt to a DVD. Perfect for the next time I have to reinstall XP!
I have used both dd and tar via ssh
** end quote [owen.churchcowley] That's an interesting thought that hadn't crossed my mind. I'll have to read up on it a bit, but that should take care of NTFS. Of course the problem with any of these is where to put the resultant image so it can be accessed and how to spool it straight there in the absence of local disk space.
As an aside for anyone interested I had this one suggested to me:
looks to be very interesting.