Linux ghosting/imaging

Kukuman · 01-23-2012, 06:15 PM

at work,I witnessed the use of VMware Ghost (or is that symantec?) to clone computers across a network and with USB keys .I'd like to do it, it seems to be a very useful piece of software as I'm setting up my own network right now.

Is there a free open-source equivalent? What would you suggest?

pljvaldez · 01-23-2012, 06:21 PM

Clonezilla.

kindofabuzz · 01-24-2012, 02:10 AM

Yeah Clonezilla all the way.

taylorkh · 01-25-2012, 07:43 AM

I have used g4l for many years. The interface is not as pretty as Clonzilla (it looks more like Symantec/Norton Ghost) and it will not image ext4 partitions. Other than that it has been very reliable. I would not compute without it.

Ken

Dark_Helmet · 01-25-2012, 12:04 PM

Depends a little on what the machines are that you want to image.

The previously mentioned Clonezilla seems to have a lot of support. There's also FOG. Last time I looked (which was a while back) one of the differences between Clonezilla and FOG is that FOG allows terminal based commands after a Windows image is pushed out to a machine. In other words, set up printers, patch files, etc.