[K12OSN] Open Source Imaging software

[Calvin Dodge]

On 1/19/07, Abraham Rolick <ARolick at fillmore.k12.ca.us> wrote:
> Sorry if this has been a thread in the past .. but I'm in a real predicament at the moment ;P
>
> Our imaging software has worked for some time, but just today decided that it doesn't really want to keep working anymore :)  Have any of you used an open source imaging software with any degree of success?  Unfortunately, this is for imaging a bunch of Windows XP workstations ... but I have no control over that at this point.

No experience with "Ghost 4 Linux"
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l), but it might do the job.

I don't believe it "understands" NTFS partitions, so it would copy an
entire partition (mebbe a bit smaller with compression), which means
lots of storage would be required for backups.

Install images would be rather smaller - you could make a standard
install image in a few gigabytes, then expand it to the size of the
target drive after installing it (I use qtparted on Knoppix).

"Ghost 4 Linux" has a modified Knoppix CD image, so you could probably
boot with that CD, do the backup or restore, then reboot to the Evil
Empire (tm) OS.

Calvin