Imaging programs

[Chris Bier]

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Brian Kelsay wrote:
| I recall someone asking recently about drive imaging software and I
came across this info today.  One free software and 2 for dollars.  I
only mention the commercial solutions here because I've never heard of
them before today and thought they might be interesting to some of you.
  Enjoy.
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| http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
| g4u ("ghost for unix") is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows
easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs
using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. First is to upload the
compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server. Other is to
restore that image via FTP, uncompress it and write it back to disk;
network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the harddisk is processed
as a image, any filesystem and operating system can be deployed using
g4u. Easy cloning of local disks as well as partitions is also supported.
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| http://acronis.com/products/trueimage/
| It takes an exact image of your hard disk drive or separate partitions
for complete backup, and allows you to restore all of their contents,
including operating systems, programs, personal data and settings. In
the event of fatal software or hardware failure Acronis True Image
protects your data, even when ordinary file backup software does not
work.  Supported Partitions: FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS,
and Linux SWAP.
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| http://www.bootitng.com/bootitng.html
| First, as the name suggests, Bootit NG is a boot manager.
| Second, Bootit NG is a partition manager. It understands all current
major partition types (Fat, Fat32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, Linux
swap, etc.).
| Third, Bootit NG is a disk imager: You can create compact, compressed
images of any or all partitions on your hard drive, regardless of which
OS they're holding, and place the image files where you want: Bootit NG
even natively supports direct writing to many common CD/DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW
drives (and disk spanning is also supported, to allow large images to
extend across several writable discs); or you can dump the image file to
a partition on your hard drive, if you prefer.
My favorite disk imager is partimage.  http://www.partimage.org/
I used to put it on a gentoo 1.2 cd image and use it to transfer the
images across the network.
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