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Which is the Best hard disk imaging software? Please Provide its pros and cons also.

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Let's see how long it takes until someone mentions dd :-) – Johannes Rössel Nov 23 at 8:25
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see: superuser.com/questions/7739/… – fretje Nov 23 at 9:41
Windows or *nix or either? ;) – Aaaaaaaaaha ERLEBNIS Nov 23 at 12:21
Due to the answers matching the one's in the listed duplicate I am closing this. – Diago Nov 23 at 14:22

closed as exact duplicate by Diago Nov 23 at 14:21

This question covers exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be merged with another identical question.

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My favorite is Norton Ghost.I did not use but lots of pros propose Acronis True Image as an alternative to Norton Ghost.I have not seen any negativeness while using Ghost.

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Among the lesser known but often highly respected ones, Shadowprotect (rather expensive) and Macrium Reflect (not so expensive) is worth mentioning.

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Acronis' True Image solutions.

I've been using it at business level (T.I. Server and Echo Server, I've still to try the Backup & Recovery series, which is a replacement for the True Image solutions) for about 5 years. its support is excellent and so are its features.

Supports full, incremental and differential backups, selective restore, saving the images in a network share or to a FTP server, ...

Check out the version comparison tables: Backup & Recovery Series & True Image Home Series.

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Don't forget CloneZilla, for a free alternative :)

Note: Ghost sees EXT3 partitions as 'corrupt' EXT2, whereas Zilla knows the difference, and even EXT4.

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According to raymond.cc its Acronis TrueImage Home 2010!

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I have used Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5 with great success. It not only does the image, it will do scheduled backups. It can also convert the image to a Virtual Machine(MS and VMWare) and it will also restore the image to totally different hardware if needed.

There is a 60 day trial available.

I believe there was just a new version released that supports Windows 7

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+1 for Norton Ghost.

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this should be a comment – fretje Nov 23 at 9:31

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