Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Sep 26 12:09:15 CDT 2009
I was only meantioning it because most of my recent client and personal upgardes have been because one or more of their drives has simply ran out of room. Aside: I deal with a number of imaging clients; photoshop, XSI, Illustrator, photgraphs etc. and they can use drive space up at unbelievable speeds. One client filled a new 300GB drive in 2 weeks on one project! (They now have 4TB worth of space. 4 x 500GB plus 2 x 1TB and I hope the power supply holds out.) Just ran across this open-source package that might another interesting product along the line of Clonezilla. It called FOG. It is open source and also clones all distros Linux, Windows and Mac, has a GUI and can be used as an enterprise solution on your business or home network. http://www.fogproject.org There is also a comparative conversation, long on conversation and short on details, giving a comparison of FOG and Clonezella. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIHN_ublWJ4 (I really hate the prattling... get to meat... but it does give some broad point reviews.) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 9:30 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Create System Image using Clonezilla That sort of defeats the object. What I want to create periodic images when I get to certain points knowing that I would be happy to restore to that point (A bit like the native Restore Point). I don't want to swap disks, or, hang on, maybe I do. If I were to buy a smaller disk and then image onto that and then boot from it, I can then rerun clonezilla to do another image onto my large (main) disk which is now corrupt. Hmm, yeah, that might work...long way round though. I cant view the video because my connection is too slow. What would be the implication with MS? I understand that part of the Key-Installation is to take a snapshot of the system and the create havoc if you change something like a hard drive? Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: 26 September 2009 17:13 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Create System Image using Clonezilla Hi Max: Just bumped it the Utube video on the product: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WGSMHWV73s ...Or get a brand new drive, that has not been formatted yet and re-image over it. If the new drive boots...perfect. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 9:02 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Create System Image using Clonezilla THAT is a very good question. The only way to find out is to get a sacrificial PC, image it, destroy the boot sector electronically (not physically, of course) and then boot from Clinezilla, restore the image and try it. Go on, you know you want to know - we all do! Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: 26 September 2009 16:57 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Create System Image using Clonezilla That sounds excellent Max. I have never used Clonezilla before but now you have saved me the trouble. My only question would be; If the boot drive fails will the restored drive boot? In otherwards, does it restore the boot sectors? Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 5:37 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] Create System Image using Clonezilla Hi, I pass this info on for anybody who is thinking about creating a system image. I have just had to rebuild my HP Pavilion and then installed all the software etc, followed by all the updates, etc. Took absolutely hours and hours. I then wanted to take a snapshot image of my Drive C: so that if it happens again, I can just restore the image. The software I used was Clonezilla which is FREE opensource software. It took about 4 hours to copy 582 Gb disk with 124 Gb used. The image created on my USB Seagate 1.5Tb HD was 82 Gb. I believe Clonezilla only copies sectors physically used. Warning: there is no lovely GUI interface. You create a CD from an image and then change you bios setting to ensure you boot from the CD. At various times it will ask you for information, in particular which drive you want backing up and which drive you are backing up to. Make sure you GET THIS right and read the screen slowly and carefully. I haven't got the patience to spend another 4 hours to test the restore, but to do so, you boot from the CD again and then select the option to Restore instead of Create image. It was painless and appeared to have gone through without a hitch. My system is a 64bit OS running Windows Vista Home Premium and the Clonezilla was the 32bit program. Don't be frightened about the use of exe with the words linux in the title, it works just fine on windows. It also creates a text file with the parameters to run it again - don't know where it put it though!! Hope I can find it, because then I can rerun this from a batch file overnight at regular intervals. Next job it to make sure everything loads and runs ok and then to install the VirtualBox stuff. 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