[sllug-members]: Network backup and cloning

[Mike Bourgeous]

Partimage is a tool that I heard about years ago, then forgot about, and 
desperately searched for until I found it again last year.  It does 
everything you're looking for.  From partimage.org:

"Partition Image will only copy data from the used portions of the 
partition. For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the 
image file. This is unlike the 'dd' command, which also copies empty blocks. 
Partition Image also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a 
full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB."

Mike Bourgeous

P.S. It works for NTFS for me, even though it's listed as experimental.


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>Hey John,
>We resize down the partitions via qtparted and then use g4u (which seems to 
>compress the image some).  Before we deploy the clone machine we use 
>qtparted again to expand the partition.  It works well enough for our 
>medium sized shop.  The biggest issue we have run into with g4u is it 
>detecting newer NICs.
>Cheers, Jason
>
>John Anderson wrote:
>>Hey, I was wondering what your guys recommendation for doing cloning of 
>>pc's and deploying the image over a network is?  I've tried using g4u ( 
>>http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ )  and dd but they both clone the complete 
>>harddisk (80gb disk means 80gb image).
>>
>>Thanks for the tips =)
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