[SLL] Cross Platform Disk Image Software

[Mark Foster]

Eric Kahklen wrote:
> We use Ghost to image Windows machines but I am looking for something
> to image my Linux machines for quick restores.  I'd like to find
> something that will image Windows, Linux and possibly OS X machines. 
> In order to save time, I was hoping others may have found a tool that
> lives up to the marketing hype :-)
>
Here's a run down of what I've used or learn about for this task...
http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Hard_Disk_Cloning
g4u is probably my favorite. partimage is getting rather stale and
doesn't support whole-disk imaging or LVM2.
I've also used dd+netcat to image/clone systems over the network (p2v).
That works pretty well on Gbit. It helps to zero-fill your disk paritions.

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