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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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Recommended Procedure and Toolset for Server Migration

Old dell poweredge 2800 with a 2 drive SCSI mirror on an Adaptec 39160 SCSI controller. (2) 146GB UW SCSI HDDs, (1 failed). New Dell T100 with PERCS300 controller & 3 Drive RAID 5. Best way to image the old server (Windows SBS2003) onto the new…
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What's the best way to store an image?

I am attempting to create my own one-off imaging utility based on fedora and I have one main question. The utility (well, in theory) will save a raw image of the machine to a network storage location. For me the best target is a samba share. The…
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Install image of a specific Fedora setup

We have a server that is running a specific setup of Fedora 13 and various packages. I would like to create either a boot image or imaging server that contains the image of this installation to be rolled out on servers of the similar hardware. I…
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Cloning a disk to a directory

What’s the best way to clone an old smaller drive to a directory of a new larger one? I want to use this not as a backup but just for reference and will trash it after a while. It could be just one large file as produced with disk cloning software…
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Hyper-V server 2008 connecting to LAN Router?

Looking at setting up Hyper-V server 2008 on new Dell T610 and migrating DC + 2 other VMs on there. I would try before asking but don't have the server as yet, couple of questions spring to mind if I may: 1 - Can you boot clients via iso? With…
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How to boot floppy image without floppy drive?

Suppose I have a 1.44 MB floppy image with, say, a BIOS update, and a server with no floppy drive. How do I boot this image on the server? Without getting a USB floppy drive, that is. I tried copying the image to a USB drive (raw copy using dd),…
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Aging SBS needs updates / Thoughts for one-off, off-line complete backup?

So, we checked out the status of an SBS 2003 at one of our more recent, spend-averse clients and found it to be woefully out-of-date. Scary out of date. I think it's running IE2. Ok, maybe not that far back. Anyway, I was thinking that I could use…
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Add Partition Table to existing vhdx partition image

I have images of single paritions (not full disks) in vhdx format. I want to create VMs with Hyper-V with them. Since the images are only partitions the machines do not start. How can I add the disk header or merge multiple vhdx partitions to a…
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GCP image import error: install_apt_packages failing

I was trying to import a debian-11 image (debian-11-genericcloud-amd64.raw) using gcloud compute images import command. However it was failing, and looking at the logs it seems that install_apt_packages is failing. What could be the reason for this?…
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Can I mksqashfs a whole Mint 20 OS then restore with unsquashfs on a different drive?

I have a very strict system with the bare minimum applications on for security reasons since I work with medical data. Sometimes the laptops we use messup for one reason or another, won't boot, can't login, botting process gets corupt etc. When this…
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Changing the disk type of vsphere VM using Rest API

I am looking for a way to convert my Vsphere VM disk type using REST API calls, like "Dependent" and "Independent-Nonpersistent". i was searching in the documentation for Sphere 6.7,could not find a way to perform this operation Can someone please…
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Can I use a KVM image of Debian as a bootable image for a laptop?

I'm given the task to create a unified Debian image for all my teammates laptops. My plan is to create a KVM with all the necessary software and settings and copy this image later with dd to the hard disks of my colleages' laptops. Can I use a KVM…
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Creating/Deploying Windows Server 2019 Image on multiple servers

I manage servers that are all identical in terms of hardware and software. The only differences are hostnames and IP addresses. I've been researching how to clone the OS across these to speed up deployments, but I am having trouble since a lot of…
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Extract the content of the image from which the Windows workstations are installed?

I am just developer who tries to debug one nasty error that happens only on the workstations that are built/installed from some corporate image of the Windows workstation. I have no idea what "the image file" means and I have no access to it. My…
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Disk snapshot size created from a google compute engine exceeds used space

I have a Google Compute Instance (VM) that has a 2TB disk and around 80GB used space. I wanted to archive this VM so that I don't get billed for the whole 2TB, and also so that it is ready to be recreated quickly if needed. Disk Snapshots seemed to…
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