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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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Best free tool to image a Windows XP drive before reinstallation?

Usually I stay away from desktop support, but as I am marrying this one I don't think I can get out of it :) Whats the best tool for taking a full, browsable image of a disk before a full reinstallation. When I am doing corporate server support, I…
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Windows disk imaging for backup with auto scheduling

I am after a way to automatically schedule a disk image backup of Windows Vistas x64 systems. Required features Ability to run on nightly schedule with no user involvement (so this takes out things like CloneZilla I think) Easy way to restore using…
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What's the best way to clone multiple PCs from one machine?

Where I work we have dozens and dozens of old ThinkPad laptops. A lot of these can be reused but not for our needs. They have been long since replaced. The higher-ups have decided to donate them to charity. For better or for worse I have been…
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What's the best way to move a windows 7 installation from a hdd to another?

I have a hdd with windows 7 installed on it. I would like to move (or clone) the whole system to another (in this case smaller) hdd. What is the best and easiest way to do it? Basically I would need some kind of copy operation which would handle the…
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How to copy KVM disk image to LVM

Problem I'm getting a No space left on device error when doing a dd command. I'm trying to move a KVM qcow2 file to an LVM partition and thought that the LVM partition needed to be the same size as the sum of the partitions in the…
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How to install windows on a server with no CD or DVD drive

I've found a few posts on this site, however my situation is different. I have a new Dell server with no OS installed. I would like to install Windows 2008 Web Edition. I have a few USB ports and Ethernet. No CD or DVD drives. Is this article the…
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How to shrink btrfs image file used by LXD storage?

I have btrfs image file set as backend for LXD (2.18) but I would like to shrink it's size. What I did: mounted image to loop device losetup /dev/loop1 /home/btrfs.img mounted device to /mnt dir mount /dev/loop1 /mnt/brtfs resized btrfs partition…
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Windows 10 installation on Dell T7600 with PERC H310 Raid Controller

We work in an environment with machines running mostly CentOS 7.3 but from times to times we need to switch to Windows 10. To manage those changes, we have a PXE boot solution with tree options: boot currently locally installed OS reinstall CentOS…
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KVM direct disk access vs raw files

I have to setup 14TB of raid storage space (which just shows up as /dev/sdb). My question is: Is there any impact on performance from a kvm guest if I create ext4 on this large drive directly, mount it up on the host like /mnt/kvms and then create…
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Setting up 20 computers with WIN7

I am trying to set up 20 identical computers the same. I have one computer set up exactly how it needs to be. Updated drivers, 6+ hrs of Win updates, Applications, etc... What are the next steps to apply to other 19 computers? Any help is…
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Deploy a disk image on bare-metal

I try to understand Foreman and other deployment/provisioning systems, and how to use them best. Granted, installing the OS with some kind of prepared answers and scripts - Kickstart, AutoYAST etc. - is the best way for the majority of cases. But…
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How safe is it to access qemu/kvm raw or qcow2 disk image files from host

I've read mixed opinions about how safe it is to modify qemu disk image files. There are two distinct situations I'm interested in. 1) let's take a raw or qcow2 disk image file not used by kvm (i.e. the virtual machine is not running), mount it…
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why is an md5sum of a micro SD different after I mount it?

On Linux I dd a binary image to a micro SD card and check each the source and target md5sum, they are identical. I then safely remove the card, and remount the card and do an md5sum again. It is different. Why? Thank you, Bertrand
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How do I clone the contents of one hard drive onto another?

Can anyone recommend a different CD bootable utility I might try to clone a hard disk drive? I've so far failed to perform the seemingly simple task of cloning the contents from a small hard disk drive onto a larger one. Apparently Hitachi (target)…
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Clonezilla from Command Line

I wan to use Clonezilla to Copy an Entire Disk to another Server. As the Source Disk resides on a Server, I do not have Access to the server to use a Live-CD. I will therefore have to use the command line from a "rescue System" that lets me mount…
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