Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, James Bensley wrote: > >> Clonezilla do a network version that does this, >> >> http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-server-edition/ > > +1 for Clonezilla. For smaller-scale cloning, it and an external USB > drive are just the ticket (assuming your hardware can boot from a USB > device). Clonezilla is very versatile. If you have some network-shared space that can hold an intermediate (compressed) copy of the image (via nfs, smb, or ssh) the easy approach is to boot from the clonezilla-live CD, connect to the storage location, and save the copy from your source machine, then repeat and restore it on the target(s). This is also a handy way to keep snapshot backups of dual-boot laptops etc. when making changes. You can also do disk->disk copies from the clonezilla-live boot if you can install them in the same box or connect with a USB adapter cable. Dd can be used but it will copy the whole disk. Clonezilla knows enough about most filesystems to only copy the used parts. (It's basically a linux boot with scripted, menu driven partimag, ntfsclone, etc. tools). A USB boot works as well or better than the CD, and if you do a lot of cloning you can add drbl to a server (it's packaged for centos and easy to install) to provide PXE network booting into clonezilla which comes up with the server already NFS mounted for access to the images. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com