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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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Auto clean unused space on disks in VM

I run KVM based virtualization server (namely, Proxmox) where some Debian based machines are run in KVM VM's. Proxmox can create backups of VMs, it also compress the VM disks images. As we understand, backup sizes are increasing over time, since…
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Disk2VHD scheduled backup script

I'm using such simple backup script using Disk2VHD. I would like to change it a little bit so it would check the C disk drive usage and compare it with F drive, so old images would be only removed if there is not enough free disk space on…
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Version control for virtual disk images

Is there any existing system for efficiently tracking the version history of a virtual disk image? Essentially, I have a disk image which is used as a "template" root filesystem for testing programs. I occasionally need to make changes to it (e.g.…
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Workstation imaging on top of full disk encryption

Is it possible to use imaging tools (e.g. Acronis Snap Deploy, or possibly SystemImager) to deploy workstation images to laptops that have PGP full disk encryption? How could I go about doing this? The specific FDE tool we use right now is…
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Why did cloning my Amazon EC2 node set off automatically generating a new ssh host key pair?

My normal backup process is to create a new AMI from an EC2 instance I have running Amazon's linux. This is convenient because the EC2 console automatically shuts down the node , makes a copy and brings the old node back up. The odd thing is that…
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Image of configurations, processes, and so on

I have configured my local (Ubuntu) Server in which I have all my services with their own configurations and files, now I want to copy all that to another machine. What's the right method to do it? An image of the computer? The OS included?
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Migrating Oracle DB to another operating system from Red Hat Enterprise by using a disk image

I have a Red Hat Enterprise server disk image that Oracle DB is installed on it. My question is : Is it even possible to use this disk image in order to setup same DB on another Oracle supported operating system? If possible, how can it be done? (I…
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logging in to two seperate linode disk images

perhaps I am a bit confused on what a 'disk image' is, but I was under the impression that once I set up multiple disk images in a linode account, they would each act as a distinct server. I have set up two instances, one running ubuntu 10.04 and…
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Is there a way to capture a Hyper-V VHD image of a running Linux (Centos) server?

I have a linux server running Centos (actually its a PBX running Trixbox) that I want to migrate to a Hyper-V based VM so that the physical server can be repurposed. Is it possible to capture a VHD image directly from a Linux server?
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Full Disk Imaging when machine is running

I am looking for a disk imaging solution that can run in background when my machine is up and running (e.g. via cron). I am using an Ubuntu machine. In the past I have used Clonezilla for periodic imaging but would like to do nightly full-disk…
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CloneZilla PXE Boot Without NFS

I am trying to setup CloneZilla to be bootable via PXE without using NFS. I do not have NFS running on our PXE server and would like to keep it that way. However, most of the information that I have found online indicates that you need to setup…
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Virtual to Physical desktop cloning

I am trying to clone a VMware Workstation VM so I can load it on the computers around our office. The VM in question is a Windows XP SP3 VM with a 40GB IDE VMDK. I am seriously missing something and I am close to giving up on this. The problem…
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How does Windows 2008 remember drive letter / mount point associations?

We use storage array features to clone LUNs and then map these "new" LUNs out again to the same or different hosts. A typical case is when we refresh between environments, so imagine cloning a LUN holding a bunch of VMs from source host TEST1 to…
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After using dd new disk cannot be booted and partition tables lost

After I used dd to clone a 120 gb hard disk to new empty 320 gb hard disk, the new disk cannot be booted. And fdisk tell me the partition table is no valid and Gparted just cannot edit the partitions.(I supposed I need to create a new partition on…
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How do I replace hard drives in a Dell PowerEdge 1950

My Dell PowerEdge 1950 has 2x 3.5inch 146Gb SAS attached to a PERC 5/I Raid controller card in a raid1 configuration. I want to replace these with 2x 2TB SATA drives which the Dell documentation says the Server can accept. My questions are: Can I…
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