Since I never quite got back on the post on alternative disk/partition cloning tools after a few days, it might be appropriate to at least close it after a year.
I actually did got something out of that exercise but things began to turn really busy after that. In fact using that same tool, I cloned and deployed more than 30 Ubuntu desktop.
So which is it? Clonezilla.
Halfway throght the list, Clonezilla fit the bill so well that it wasn’t necessary to try the other.
So far clonezilla has worked for me on Windows XP and Ubuntu system. It has even worked on virtual machine on VirtualBox.
How does it work?
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My question today is ‘What are the open source/free alternatives to disk/partition cloning tools like Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image or Paragon Drive Backup.”
The selection has certainly improved and matured since I research this topic more than 2 years ago. Back then a few alternatives (including SystemRescueCD and PartD, Partition Saving) was tested but none gives the comfort that the restore would be fail-proof should the need suddenly appears. The main problem I remembered was NTFS wasn’t well supported at that time. In the end I stuck to Norton Ghost.
Now it is time to return to this topic after installing 2 PCs in 2 days and potentially having to provision 100 more PCs to come.
Let me list the alternatives and I will get back with the result in a few days. In the meantime, if you have any experience, good or bad, with open source/free disk clone utilities, please leave a comment.
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UBCD – Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
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FOG – Free, Ghost-like Cloning Solution
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PING – Partimage is Not Ghost
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Wikipedia has a good article to learn more about disk cloning.
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