Clonezilla >=Norton Ghost®

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It is free

You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers.

You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!


Features of Clonezilla

• Free (GPL) Software.
• Filesystem supported:
• ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux,
• FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS.
• Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows and Intel-based Mac OS, no matter it's 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) 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.

Download
http://clonezilla.org/download/sourceforge/stable/iso-zip-files.php
http://clonezilla.org/download/sourceforge/alternative/iso-zip-files.php (Ubuntu based)

 

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Documentation

You can refer to these step-by-step examples, which provide more details, e.g. how to save an image, to restore an image, to clone disk, to create recovery CD, and more... Improved! More examples!

For general introduction about using the Clonezilla live, please check this doc.

 

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Install Windows XP on 21 PC using Clonezilla .......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whi9rFhldv0


No need Norton Ghost......Use open source...........