Free Biz Ware » partition http://freebizware.com Free and Open Source Business Softwares Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:12:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Alternative Disk/Partition Cloning Tools http://freebizware.com/75/alternative-diskpartition-cloning-tools/ http://freebizware.com/75/alternative-diskpartition-cloning-tools/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:42:31 +0000 Ken http://freebizware.com/75/alternative-diskpartition-cloning-tools/ 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.

  3. UBCD – Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
  5. FOG – Free, Ghost-like Cloning Solution
  8. PING – Partimage is Not Ghost
  9. Linux Rescue Server – this one is interesting from an overall system management point of view.

Wikipedia has a good article to learn more about disk cloning.

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