[GLLUG] Hard Disk Imaging

[Craig Weaver]

I have done both the partimage and the vmware route.  I have used partimage in a network environment backing up a lot of xp pro installs and I can say I have only had it choke on ntfs a couple of times. Although I can say when it chokes on the ntfs that box is usually an issue for other reasons in my experience.  For your particular requirement vmware (or m$ virtPC) is a perfect tool.  I use vmware to build baseline installs for testing then am able to clone the environment as many times as I need in a matter of seconds.  I would definitely second the virtual machine route for this need.

Craig

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:46:42 -0500, "Jeffrey Benton" <bentonje at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Clay,
> 
> This may be wandering off topic a bit, but is some form of virtualization
> an
> option for you?  For instance, VMWare or VirtualPC.  I have tried the
> image
> route and the virtualization route and much prefer the latter for testing
> as
> it allows me to work with entire disk images as a file as well as use Undo
> Disks.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Clay Dowling
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 9:08 AM
> To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> Subject: [GLLUG] Hard Disk Imaging
> 
> I'm looking for a reliable, fast tool for hard disk imaging.  I'm not
> wanting to pay any money.
> 
> I have an NTFS drive that I need to re-virgin several times a day while
> testing an install.  I have access to Norton Ghost, but to be honest
> version
> 10, which I'm using, is a major pain in the tail.  I'm currently using g4u
> off the Ultimate Boot CD, but it takes half an hour to re-virgin the disk
> and that can get old when it's a small tweak that I need to make in my
> install.
> 
> I absolutely need the solution to place the images on a network and
> retrieve
> them from a network, because we don't have a machine with a spare hard
> disk
> to store the image.  I need it to work reliably with NTFS (PartImage comes
> with gigantic warning signs about NTFS).
> 
> Clay
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