Questions tagged [disk-image]
a disk-image is an exact copy of a disk, partition or volume, or the process of making such a copy.
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Migrate Hosted VPS server to my own server
Is it possible to direct copy an entire VPS host to my own server?
My current VPS is in the US and the response times from/to Denmark are bugging me a lot. I have previously had my own server, ...
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Restore Windows from local system image
Back in the day (late 90s) I worked with a school who partitioned their desktop systems into two drives, the main Windows drive and a secondary hidden drive which held a system image for easy restore ...
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Cloning a disk to a directory
What’s the best way to clone an old smaller drive to a directory of a new larger one? I want to use this not as a backup but just for reference and will trash it after a while. It could be just one ...
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Looking to replace Ghost with FSArchiver or Clonezilla, few questions about capabilities
I work for a PC Repair company and we are looking into setting up a dedicated machine with externally accessible SATA bays to clone harddrives as a safety net incase something goes wrong during a ...
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How to mount ISO to VMWare guest OS?
I'm new to VMWare (more familiar with VirtualBox).
I'm looking to add an ISO to a new Guest OS (Windows Server 2008). I would like to add the ISO as a CD-ROM drive so that the server 2008 instance ...
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Can I use a single OS X Installation Image on multiple machines?
I currently admin a small variety of Mac's at work. We have some G3/G4/G5/MBP/iBook/eMac/iMac. I've noticed that each system is configured slightly different and wanted to come up with some disk ...
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Hyper-V server 2008 connecting to LAN Router?
Looking at setting up Hyper-V server 2008 on new Dell T610 and migrating DC + 2 other VMs on there. I would try before asking but don't have the server as yet, couple of questions spring to mind if I ...
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What's the best way to move a windows 7 installation from a hdd to another?
I have a hdd with windows 7 installed on it. I would like to move (or clone) the whole system to another (in this case smaller) hdd. What is the best and easiest way to do it? Basically I would need ...
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Cloning single disk drive to multiple drives simultaneously
I am looking for a way to clone single disk drive to more than one disk drive at the same time.
I have prepared system images on 1TB disks, and it takes almost 2 hours to clone one disk to another, ...
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Disk image of a Windows 2000 NTFS hard drive
I need to create a disk image from a Windows 2000, NTFS formatted, hard drive. This image has to be used to create backup hard drives to replace the original disk in case an emergency situation arises....
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How to boot floppy image without floppy drive?
Suppose I have a 1.44 MB floppy image with, say, a BIOS update, and a server with no floppy drive. How do I boot this image on the server? Without getting a USB floppy drive, that is.
I tried ...
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Cloning an LVM disk with dd?
I would like to clone a smaller LVM-formatted disk onto a larger one using dd, and boot that disk in the same machine. Do I need to make any special considerations for LVM?
Thanks! Although I ...
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How to make an ISO copy of Linux-filesystem and user files of VPS Debian based?
I have a Debian-Based VPS on some hosting. I want to migrate from it and i need to make a full copy of all Linux-filesystem (and installed packages) + all home directory with website files. And then ...
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Aging SBS needs updates / Thoughts for one-off, off-line complete backup?
So, we checked out the status of an SBS 2003 at one of our more recent, spend-averse clients and found it to be woefully out-of-date. Scary out of date. I think it's running IE2. Ok, maybe not that ...
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How to copy KVM disk image to LVM
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I'm getting a No space left on device error when doing a dd command. I'm trying to move a KVM qcow2 file to an LVM partition and thought that the LVM partition needed to be the same size as ...
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Looking for fast, minimal, preferrably free disc cloning software
I'm a software developer, and we have to test our application installation and functionality on many Windows operating system versions and languages (XP, Vista, Win7; English, Spanish, Portuguese, etc;...
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How to install windows on a server with no CD or DVD drive
I've found a few posts on this site, however my situation is different.
I have a new Dell server with no OS installed. I would like to install Windows 2008 Web Edition. I have a few USB ports and ...
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regenerate iso file from running livecd -- dd won't run reliably and genisoimage has catch-22s
In the field I need some users to be able to make iso files reliably from a cdrom that is also serving as a mounted LiveCD and so I concocted a manual test case before doing any scripting. The test ...
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Fastest way to migrate Linux data
I'm looking for a fast to migrate Linux installation to another hardware.
As I wrote in another question (Unable to access resume device in CentOS), I moved 2 disks in software RAID to another ...
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Install .iso file on a remote server without DVD drive access
Is there an easy way to install software located on a .iso file to a remote server which does not provide to me access to the DVD Drive?
I have a license for SQL Server 2008 Web Edition through ...
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ddrescue a non-solaris disk gets I/O error
I am trying to get a disk image of a SCSI disk using ddrescue on Solaris10 (Sparc). The disk is non-solaris, and ddrescue gets an immediate I/O error (as does dd). I used format to label the disk as ...
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unattended recovery from image
I've got quite a few machines which sometimes need to be restored from an image. There's a slight problem that those machines are at different locations, don't have keyboards and sometimes don't even ...
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No-brainer cloning software?
I was unable to figure out how to use CloneZilla to clone Linux/XP/Vista (XP enters an endless loop with "Autochk - Program not found", and Vista can't boot with "Error 17 - File not found", even ...
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CloneZilla Live vs. PartImage?
For use on a test computer, I need a free cloning tool to save NTFS and ext3 partitions to the same disk, ie. no need to up/download images from a server.
CloneZilla Live and PartImage (available on ...
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Converting VMWare to ISO
I installed VMWare player on vista and tried Ubuntu on it, I am quite happy with it, the built my dev env on it (Ruby, Rails, MySQL etc). Now i want to move to a dedicated machine, is it possible to ...
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Using ImageX for ghosting Windows XP
I'm in a project where the hardware specification is closed. The Windows XP image will run always on top of the same configuration. We are thinking on using ghosting for enabling a quick restore of ...
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Recommended system cloning tool with customizable boot disc? [closed]
I am setting up a small computer lab at a school in a small town up in the hills of Panama, where we will be starting with 10 similarly-configured student PCs. My desire is to create a locked-down ...
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Using Clonezilla Server Edition with multiple multicast restore operations
I run a computer refurbishing operation for a local non-profit I am a part of. I have been looking into using Clonezilla to do network-based image-restoration. I am very interested in the multicast ...
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Simple Workstation Imaging Solution?
I need a fairly cheap imaging solution for Windows XP corporate desktops. Ideally, I'd be able to set up a desktop exactly as we want it, create an image, deploy this image to a server, then boot a ...
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Need to clone a Red Hat Server to replace current drives with larger ones
We need to completely replace a drive in a Red Hat 4 linux box with larger drives, as we have run out of space. We are looking for utilities or applications (Ghost?) - or a process that will allow us ...
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Cloning Windows SBS 2003 to different machines (with different hardware configurations)
I'd like to save time and clone an existing Win 2k3 server to new hardware.
Is this possible / advisable?
Thanks
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Mounting ISO image on VMware ESX guest OS without VMware client
I have an ISO image on my VMware ESX 3.5 host that I would like to mount in a guest OS. I cannot figure out how to do this. I can easily mount an ISO image with the VMware Infrastructure Client's "...
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What to change after cloning a Linux server? [closed]
Let's say I'm cloning a virtual machine containing a Linux server.
What would you advice to change in the clone? I know - it's kind of vague and depends on what services ware installed on linux but ...
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Missing hal.dll After Disk Clone
A friend couldn't seem to get Norton Ghost to clone a disk usably. I suggested using GParted, and (after running chkdsk /f on the NTFS partition - possibly the cause of Norton's problem) took the ...
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Where does Ubuntu store partition UUIDs on disk?
Exactly what part of the disk is a UUID stored on? MBR? Somewhere within the partition? Is it a calculated value, or randomly generated and recorded?
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Partitioning advice for dual boot with Windows XP and two separate Linux installations
Main goals is to have/being:
Windows XP
Main Linux installation
"Some other" Linux installation which I am currently experimenting with.
All three OS installations completely separate (at least to ...
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How to set up disk cloning with dd, netcat and ssh tunnel?
I would like to copy stuff in bulk (reimage disk using dd) with netcat from host A to B via ssh encrypted channel on Linux.
What commands should I type on both ends?
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Best free tool to image a Windows XP drive before reinstallation?
Usually I stay away from desktop support, but as I am marrying this one I don't think I can get out of it :)
Whats the best tool for taking a full, browsable image of a disk before a full ...
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How do I clone the contents of one hard drive onto another?
Can anyone recommend a different CD bootable utility I might try to clone a hard disk drive?
I've so far failed to perform the seemingly simple task of cloning the contents from a small hard disk ...
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Windows disk imaging for backup with auto scheduling
I am after a way to automatically schedule a disk image backup of Windows Vistas x64 systems.
Required features
Ability to run on nightly schedule with no user involvement (so this takes out things ...
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Building a disk image without root privileges
I am attempting to setup nightly builds of a Linux OS on my webserver. Well, the problem is I need to generate a floppy disk image without being root.
Really, I don't need to fully generate it. I ...
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Toast vs Disk Util? [closed]
I have several users that are insisting on the purchase of Toast. They will be using it to make backups of disks at possibly re-burn them if needed. I have used Disk Utility for that function. At this ...
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Problems cloning a hard drive
I have a Dell laptop with a 250 GB 5400 RPM system drive and a 200 GB 7200 RPM drive from Dell I would like to replace it with.
I thought I could put this drive in the laptop, clone the disk, and ...
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Network booting solution [closed]
I'm looking for preferably free/open source solution for booting from network. What I need to do is:
Have a boot manager check specified folder on a server.
If there's a file named f.e.: "image.img", ...
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Using DD for disk cloning
There's been a number of questions regarding disk cloning tools and dd has been suggested at least once. I've already considered using dd myself, mainly because ease of use, and that it's readily ...
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How to mount a CD/DVD ISO in Windows 7?
Does Windows 7 have native support for mounting CD/DVD ISO images? If not, what is the best tool to use for that under Windows 7 64-bit? I am looking for a solution to allow installing MSDN ...