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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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help building a PC that can image a dozen hard drives simultaneously

Not sure if this belongs on here or SuperUser, but here goes... I'm trying to figure out how to make a mass hard drive imaging PC out of COTS parts. A dedicated imaging device can do 10 drives at a time, but costs several thousand dollars. So far,…
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Can I image-backup an exchange server?

I would like to have an disk image backup of Exchange, before doing some significant upgrades and expanding a too-small C-Drive. Can I use something like Acronis Backup & Recover 10 Server (price on 11/11/2010 $860) and not use Acronis Backup for…
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Restore Windows from local system image

Back in the day (late 90s) I worked with a school who partitioned their desktop systems into two drives, the main Windows drive and a secondary hidden drive which held a system image for easy restore when the users inevitably screwed up the main…
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Toast vs Disk Util?

I have several users that are insisting on the purchase of Toast. They will be using it to make backups of disks at possibly re-burn them if needed. I have used Disk Utility for that function. At this point there is no addition functionality needed.…
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Cloning single disk drive to multiple drives simultaneously

I am looking for a way to clone single disk drive to more than one disk drive at the same time. I have prepared system images on 1TB disks, and it takes almost 2 hours to clone one disk to another, and then it goes up exponentially, in order to have…
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Looking for fast, minimal, preferrably free disc cloning software

I'm a software developer, and we have to test our application installation and functionality on many Windows operating system versions and languages (XP, Vista, Win7; English, Spanish, Portuguese, etc; 32-bit & b4-bit.) While we can do much of this…
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Efficient way to write a sparse partition to a disk image?

I generate an ext4 partition image that contains a minimal Debian file system, then write that partition image into a full disk image. I am looking for the fastest way to do the write. Consider a minimal test case: truncate -s 30GB disk.img parted…
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How to make a virtual disk image out of several parts?

During a process of moving to a virtualized infrastructure I encountered the following curious problem. We want to evaluate everything first. This involves creating a virtual images of all required systems, running them all together in an isolated…
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Automatically extend VM partition filesystem following a qemu-img resize

I'm launching a virtual machine with QEMU/KVM. After resizing the qcow2 disk image via qemu-img resize Test.qcow2 +500M And looking at the instance disk via: fdisk -l inside the instance, I can see the following warning message: GPT PMBR size…
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Multi-OS imaging strategy

I've been backup up my Windows system to an external 2TB WD drive for a while, but not my CentOS server. Most of the code I write lives on GitHub so I haven't been concerned about it. I'm currently working on setting up some machine learning…
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Hyper-V virtualization with google compute engine image

I am trying to download an image from my Google Compute Engine VM Instances in Google Cloud Platform and I'm following this article to export the image to a GCS Bucket and download it locally. I need to restore/import this image in an on-premises…
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Find out exact location of GRUB / GRUB not working after copying disk image

I prepared an Ubuntu server image with VirtualBox. To transfer the image to the server's SSD I first dded the MBR (512 bytes) and then the LVM partition (PV containing the root partition shrunk to 3GB). The server failed to boot because some parts…
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Using ImageX for ghosting Windows XP

I'm in a project where the hardware specification is closed. The Windows XP image will run always on top of the same configuration. We are thinking on using ghosting for enabling a quick restore of the system in case of failure. I understand…
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create bootable ISO from USB flash drive recovery media with imgburn or other tool

I need clean my HDD and partitions but first did a recovery usb drive with the recovery tool, the recovery is one of Thinkpad E431 and was done right. I cant rely only on a fragile usb drive to keep this copy and want keep a bkp on my external hdd…
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Windows PE3.0 does not detect SSD -- Driver Injection

I’m having an issue with getting Windows PE 3.0 to recognize hard drive. At least I think this is the problem. I’m attempting to boot a Dell Latitude E7470 Solid State Drive, Windows 7 64-bit machine from a WINPE3.0 USB thumb drive. Initially,…
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