Open Source tools to image a drive while OS is running?

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In windows 7 are there any tools that are FOSS that can image a non-system drive while the OS is running?

I know there are tools such as Clonezilla, GParted, etc; but these are offline tools.

What sort of network/server environment is this running in? – Andrew Dec 19 '11 at 05:42 — Andrew, Dec 19 '11 at 05:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 19 '11 at 10:44

Yes, most journalling filesystems will support snapshots. Although (IMHO) a more flexible approach is to break and remount a mirror (which allows you, e.g., start a new DBMS instance to run an application level extract of the data).

This provides you with an image against which you can run clonezilla, dd, cpio....

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '12 at 02:12

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I found a tool to do this; it goes by ODIN.

answered Jan 14 '12 at 02:12

Open Source tools to image a drive while OS is running?

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