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Questions tagged [disk-image]

a disk-image is an exact copy of a disk, partition or volume, or the process of making such a copy.

A disk-image is an exact copy of a disk, partition or volume, or the process of making such a copy.

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

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.
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Cant create Image of Amazon EC2 Instance (instance-store)

I've got the problem, that i need to clone a EC2 Instance but cant create an Image of my running Instance. Where is the Problem? I Hope somebody of you know the AWS and is able to help me out. http://screencast.com/t/9l1wSb0Fjas Greetings, Frederick
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Ready-to-use kvm server-images for Rails-Apps?

I'm taking care of some Rails-Deployments. For this I use several KVM virtual machines like this: Apache Load-Balancer (mod_proxy) & HTTPS-Gateway foreach rails-app { Rails-Server (Apache/Phusion Passenger) Fileserver (NFSv4) Database-Server…
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ISO image of XP Pro with lots of third-party software and user data, relocated to VMWare?

I am a database software developer and have an old PC running XP Pro with 5 years' worth of software installed on it, including Visual Studio and SQL Server and Oracle, and years of patches, and I am hoping to find a way to automagically bring that…
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How to Mirror or Clone a Spanned Volume in Windows 2008

I have a spanned volume (3x6+ TB disks spanned to one 20+ TB volume) that I need to mirror or clone to a new 20+ TB (unspanned) volume. Once mirrored or cloned I'm going to destroy the original volume and reuse the storage elsewhere. Windows 2008…
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Hard Disk Un-used space

I have a hard drive of 150gb. I recently cloned a vmdk as physical onto this hard disk. My question is, because the vmdk was 90gb of partition space, the rest of my 150gb space is not shown as a partition. Do anyone know how to recover the rest of…
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How to work with Mac/GPT disks in Linux

I use Ubuntu and Debian Linux. I have an image of a (mac) disk that uses GPT. How do I mount one of the partions on this? I have installed gdisk and can list the partitions on the image. I would actually like to extract an image of each of the…
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How to clone with cat?

I want to clone an 8.1gig bootable disk to an 8.0gig disk and have the clone remain bootable. dd causes problems because the destination disk is a few mb smaller than the source. Can "cat" help me here? cp and rsync didn't work either for some…
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Building a disk image without root privileges

I am attempting to setup nightly builds of a Linux OS on my webserver. Well, the problem is I need to generate a floppy disk image without being root. Really, I don't need to fully generate it. I just need to update the image. As I have a FFS image…
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Mounting image files created for iSCSI target daemon

I have recently installed a iSCSI environment on a Ubuntu Server. In this system i have used images created with the following command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/storage/lun1.img bs=1024k count=20000 as seen on:…
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Windows 7 disk backup and clone for deployment to multiple systems

I'm in the process of deploying some new PCs (there's only 8), all identical hardware. What I'd like to do is install Windows 7 (64bit), join to domain etc, install a bunch of other software, and then clone that drive to multiple other machines. I'd…
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How to configure Active Directory for possible image deployments/imaging of computer joined to domain

I want to make an image of computer that is in domain. The image itself isn't supposed to be used for anything else then to bring the computer back into state it was saved with (including domain membership). This is test environment to test how…
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Disk Imaging and Recovery Software for Windows XP SP3

I have just installed Windows XP SP3 in my workstation and I have a strange behavior in Acronis TrueImage Disk Imaging Software I use. I notices from some forums that there is lot o f posts regarding Acronis TrueImage stability in Windows XP SP3…
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Clone disk with dd, and change blocksize?

I need to clone my 300GB disk to 500GB disk with dd, but the old disk (300GB) has too *big block size. Will this change the block size of output partition too? I understod that obs only meant to be used during copying, and would not change the…
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Best way to serve .iso's on low disk space host?

A bit of story: I am hosting a few modified Linux distribution images, around 700MBs each. My server's free disk space is the main concern here, my current archive uses up roughly 16/20GBs of my disk space and I plan to add a few more in the near…
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