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Is there an alternative to Ghost peer to peer disk cloning?
I am looking for a way to replace ghost peer-to-peer (slave/master) disk cloning over network.
but after searching, I couldn't find a good software replacement.
would anyone please suggest some?
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How to create VHD disk image from a Linux live system?
Once more, I have to resort at the experts here at SuperUser, as my other sources (mainly Google ;-)) didn't prove very helpful...
So basically, I would like to create a VHD image of a physical disk ...
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Why don't all Linux distributions offer hybrid disk images?
Why don't all Linux distributions offer disk images you can simply dd or cat to an USB drive? Are there downsides to these hybrid images?
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Which way can I avoid Dropbox syncing older files when restoring a CloneZilla image?
Is there a way to avoid Dropbox Syncing older files back to my account when restoring a CloneZilla system image?
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Convert VMDK to ISO
I have a disk image that is in VMDK format, and I would like to convert this to an ISO so that I could use this outside of a virtual environment. I know that, at first impression, these formats don't ...
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How can I migrate a Windows 7 system image into a VirtualBox VM?
I have a Windows 7 system image (as in Microsoft's built-in backup, not dd or Norton Ghost). Can I convert it into a VirtualBox image? I'm aware that you can do this with dd images.
Even if I'm able ...
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Does backup by full disk image even make sense wrt Windows activation?
Tools like Acronis promise to enable you to restore the PC to a running state in no time, because when your hardware is defect, you just replace it and restore the backup and everything's fine.
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how to restore the backup of windows installation disk image
I had low disk space problem in windows 7 installation. And there was no way to increase the volume size of my C: drive. So I first backup the disks unix cat command.
cat /dev/sdb1 > ...
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Image system drive of stubborn win xp machine
I want to make an image of the C: drive on a particular windows xp machine, which I own. Then I want to restore this image to an identical drive. But the manufacturer has implemented measures to ...
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Save a Windows system image on the same drive as the one you're imaging?
If I don't have any external drives, can I still create a full system image? Can I create a separate partition, and image only the original partition, to be stored on the second partition? Or does it ...
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Windows 7 Backup and Restore after partition format and other OS install
I have a laptop with Windows 7. I have used the built-in Backup and Restore feature to create a system image on an external hard drive and I have created a recovery disk.
The system image included ...
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Create a VM from DMG disk image created from Windows XP Boot Camp Partition
I had Windows XP installed on a Boot Camp partition, and wanted to replace it with Windows 7, so I used Disk Utility to create a .DMG image from the partition, reformatted and installed Windows 7 on ...
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Change password of encrypted disk image in OS X with Terminal
I would like a program that would exist on my flash drive that, when run, would
open an encrypted disk image with a stored password
then change the password to a random number
store it for using it ...
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Autorun file on USB drive in OS X
I would like to have my USB flash drive auto-run a file on it when plugged in.
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Boot from a disk image without restoring it?
I would like to know if it's possible in any way to boot my Macbook ('11) from a disk image (of a 10.6 system) present on an external drive without restoring the image to a disk or partition?
I ...
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Preboot/live CD disk image backup solution w/ block-level incremental and merge support
I know there have been many queries regarding backup, but this one is rather demanding. I should also mention that I've done a fair amount of googling, but was unable to find what I need.
I need a ...
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How do I mount a sparse disk image permanently?
On Mac OS X 10.6.7, when I mount a sparse disk image (either by double-clicking it or using hdid from the command line), the image:
Appears on my desktop
Needs to be re-mounted every time I log in
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Creating a disk image of dm-crypt/LUKS encrypted LVM partition (Linux)
Is there any disk imaging software out there that can intelligently take an image of an encrypted LVM partition, if I provide the passphrase?
I am referring to software that is similar to Clonezilla ...
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Differential Backup with Scheduling, Manual Naming, Browsing, Cleanup
I'm looking for a local disk image / disaster recovery backup solution for Windows 7 that can do the following...
Schedule a full disk image once every 3 months
Schedule a weekly differential image ...
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Does Windows 7 have built-in support for creating & mounting disk images?
Does Windows 7 have any built-in tools (GUI/command-line) for creating and mounting disk images (similar to Disk Utility/hdiutil on Mac OS X)? I did a quick search in the Windows Help for "disk ...
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How to Copy .VHD File to Physical Hard Disk Using DD Command
I have read other question/answers on this site that say this is possible, but I'm wondering how it is done. I have tried the following command, which completes successfully, but the NTFS isn't valid ...
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Compressed disk image on Linux
I just got my new computer with a much bigger harddisk. I think I copied all important files over but just to be sure, I'd like to keep a disk image of my old disk. To save space, I'd like to compress ...
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Quickly clone a microSD card
is there an easy and quick way to clone all data from one microSD card to another? I want to periodically backup contents of my phone card to a backup one, and as I have a lot of small files on the ...
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Memory card image [closed]
nowdays we are capable of making a cd disk images and can mount on virtual drive....but can we do this all function with our memory card....????? i mean in phone we can make a image of a memory card ...
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What's the best way to be able to reimage windows computers?
I've got a low-end machine for testing our software. It needs to be tested under various versions of Windows, so I was planning installing each one on its own partition.
Then I realized that after ...
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Copy disc image to USB device under Windows
I'm looking for a tool which can "burn" image files created with dd under Linux on Windows. I send these images to clients so it should be as simple as possible to use. Having something that can be ...
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Mounting a multi-partition disk image in Linux
I downloaded an raw SD card image that has two partitions.
It caused some file system errors when I tried to dd it directly into an SD card. I am not sure if the card is defective or the image.
Is ...
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Suggestions for archiving CD-Audio discs in a single file
I'm looking for suggestions as to how to archive CD-Audio discs (i.e. Red Book CDs with PCM audio tracks, like the ones you buy in a record shop, or like iTunes would generate if you chose Audio CD).
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Restore/Imaging On Different Physical Machines
I've used a couple of disk-imaging tools in the past; but they always required the hardware on the machine be identical to the one that created the image. Is this still the case?
I have a ...
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how do you put a virtual disk into a virtual computer?
trying to install biolinux6 (an ubuntu64 derivative) on a Virtual Box virtial machine... how do i start? i did it once about 3 months ago but i've forgotten.
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Windows Software to Mount Volume/Partition Image File
Last night I had a BSOD a couple of minutes after moving a file. After a reboot, I found that the file was gone (it was deleted from the source partition and not present on the destination).
I took ...
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Command Line tool to create ISO images
I was tasked with helping automate the build process where I work and was specifically given the task of packaging the installer/release files into an ISO to be burnt and distributed to customers. ...
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Converting disk image files
Is there some kind of application for converting between various formats of disk image files (.img, .iso, ...)?
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Mount raw CD-ROM image
Let's say I created a image like this:
ddrescue /dev/disk1 MY_CDROM_IMAGE.img (/dev/disk1 is my CDROM drive)
How can I mount this on my Mac?
Note: The image created is not a IMG file - it is ...
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How can I convert an iso cd image to bin/cue format on a mac?
How can I convert an iso cd image to bin/cue format on a mac? I did some Googling, but couldn't find a solution, ended up having to use some freeware tool for windows in a VM :/
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In linux, how do I create/restore an image snapshot of my entire drive?
I'm too spoiled by Windows utilities that take a digital snapshot of your entire drive, which you can then restore from in the event of a drive crash. (e.g. like Time Machine for Mac OS X).
Is there ...
