Abit of help needed

krissy · 02-15-2009, 04:20 AM

Hi

Iam looking to build a cloning server that will send images thur the network when the client machine is set to boot from the network card.

What will be the best software to use for this.

The images will be of XP Home & Pro and maybe Vista. Is this possible?

Any help would be great!

Thanks
Kris

farslayer · 02-16-2009, 10:07 AM

http://clonezilla.org/

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Filesystem supported: ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS (testing feature provided by partclone). Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows and Intel-based Mac OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.

Multicast is supported in Clonezilla SE, which is suitable for massively clone. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.

your_shadow03 · 02-17-2009, 11:05 PM

Do let me know if you need any help related to Clonezilla.
I had just setup on RHEL MAchines.
Esp. Clonezilla Live...A Superb Tool

araczek · 04-22-2009, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by your_shadow03

Do let me know if you need any help related to Clonezilla.
I had just setup on RHEL MAchines.
Esp. Clonezilla Live...A Superb Tool

I am having a #@!$%#$# of a time getting Linux restore tools to work. I have tried Clonezilla (and g4l) but I really don't understand restoring in Linux as I am a Windows admin. I am trying to make a mulitboot system of Linux, XP and Vista. Present development environment needs to be modified to support Linux dev. I decided it would be best to put Linux in front and boot with Grub. So I took a box that had XP and Vista on the drive and shrunk the first OS (XP). Now I want to install Linux in front and I am not really sure how the Linux restore tools work.
-Do I need to create the partitions (Linux root, swap) first?
-How do I know what partitions are being restored? In Norton Ghost or other Windows imaging sw you had a one-to-one choice. Restore THIS partition to THAT partition. When I use Clonezilla it only seems to restore the boot partition (goes so fast, that is what I assume). There is no way to know what is being restored where and how to choose what to restore.

What can I do here? I am missing a huge part of the puzzle. I need a DETAILED procedure on restoring Linux.

HELP! Been working on this for DAYS.

yancek · 04-22-2009, 09:38 AM

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I decided it would be best to put Linux in front and boot with Grub. So I took a box that had XP and Vista on the drive and shrunk the first OS (XP). Now I want to install Linux in front and I am not really sure how the Linux restore tools work.

I'm not really sure what the above means. You don't need Linux 'in front', it doesn't matter which partition (primary or logical) it is on. If you want to boot with Grub, you will need to install it (stage1 file) to the master boot record of the machine.

Did you do an install of xp, vista then Linux or are you talking about a restore with clonezilla?

Haven't used clonezilla much but, my recollection is that you have options to create an image of a partition and restore it to another partition on the same or another disk.

You are also able to create an image of the entire disk and restore it to another disk.

You can also copy a partition to another partition on the same or another disk as well as copy the entire drive from one to another drive with or without the mbr/bootloader.

Clonezilla asks which partition you want to restore and which partition you want to restore to, same with disks.