I need a backup/recovery utility preference is free.
I need this file to be an ISO.


I would like to take that ISO file and load it into
Windows Server 2012 r2 hyper-v

Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.

You can use Mondo to create a bootable ISO backup of an existing system:
http://www.mondorescue.org/

However, the existing system may have made choices for your physical hardware and not include what you want on your Hyper-V guest.

Here we simply download the original Linux ISOs for installation and load those on our Hyper-V hypervisors and do a new install when creating a new guest.

It sounds as if you're trying to migrate an existing physical to a guest and Mondo may work for that. Mondo does allow you to make changes on new hardware so can be used for moving to a newer physical system but I've not tried it for migrating to a new virtual guest.

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I will try that utility again...having lots of issue with dependencies.

Or system do not connect to internet, so that makes it a little harder.


Reason I need to use IOS (backup/recovery) of system is I am making changes to comply with Center for Information Security Baselines. Some settings tend to break things and I am having to rebuild a lot.

We have one system we depend on, so I would rather make changes to the image rather than live system.

Thanks for your input.

I have use clonezilla but that gives me an img file...don't know if there is a way to convert this to iso.

I am a newbie...I am learning a lot..but still way behind..

i am having a hard time getting all the dependencies for mondorescue is there another backup/recovery tool that will provide an iso file or is there a way to convert the clonezilla file to an iso file..my system are 32 bit and we are running centos 6.7