[olug] [OT] Drive copy utilities?

[Phil Brutsche]

PartImage - I've used it to clone simple (ie no LVM or md softraid)
Linux installs
Clonezilla - never tried it
Acronis TrueImage - works VERY well
DriveImage XML - never tried it

The home user and professional versions Acronis TrueImage are generally
geared towards cloning and imaging Windows. They do have a version that
will image Linux, but it's considered a server product and costs $700,
where the home user version costs $50 and the professional version costs
$70.

Kevin Hinze wrote:
>  Howdy folks,
> 
> I am looking for a standalone disk copy utility for imaging one hard drive
> to another. For this particular application, I am using PATA drives. The source
> drive will be ~250 GB while the dest drive will be ~400 GB.
> 
> I want something OS independent, so something that is a standalone bootable
> CD is highly preferred. Shareware and freeware is great but I am also looking
> at commercial software, something akin to Ghost. As an aside, Ghost might be
> too confusing for some end-users to easily follow instructions, but maybe not.
> 
> While a roll-it-yourself Linux solution comes to mind for many folks, I'm
> not looking at this as a primary option, unless I've missed some great Linux
> project out there to do just this.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us