http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/12/1748242&mode=nested&tid=137&tid=185&tid=190&tid=198&tid=201
James Barlow wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good open source/freeware tool for imaging disks and partitions - and ideally something that fits into the unattended philosophy. Note this is for a disaster recovery scenario, not multiple installs (Repeat the mantra - Imaging Bad. Unattended Good)
Currently I'm using a modification of the Unattended PXE boot to map to a network share containing a copy of the dos version of Norton Ghost, and make an image of the partition to a compressed file. Being a cheap skate however, I'd like to save the 50 quid and do it will free tools.
One feature of Ghost that I can't seem to find in other products is that if you image a 10Gb partition containing only 2Gb of data, you can end up with a compressed file of around 1Gb, rather than a bit-for-bit copy of the whole 10Gb.
Anyone got any ideas?
JMB
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