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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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Mounting a device filesystem readonly with a shadowfile

Is it possible on Mac OS X to mount a /dev disk device readonly with a shadowfile, so the filesystem still operates readwrite? I know how to do it for a disk image file, with hdiutil, but the same options don't appear to be available for block…
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NetInstall Windows/Linux/Other from OS X Server

Just recently added OS X Server to my work Mac Pro, and found the NetInstall suite of tools... And I love it! But after setting up El Capitan for Boot/Install/Restore... I want more: Is it possible to create NetBoot/NetInstall/NetRestore images of…
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Is a QEMU installation on a raw disk backward compatible?

I create a qemu image like this: qemu-img create -f raw my_disk.raw 2G and (manually) install debian into it: qemu-system-i386 my_disk.raw -enable-kvm -m 1024 -cdrom my_debian_cd.iso Say I do these steps with qemu version 2.0.0, can I start the…
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How to make a bunch of blades boot and read from a same image without having to have local disks?

I'm kind of a scientific computing (much focus on fast CPUs for distributing big computations like physics simulations and algorithm optimizations, signal and image and video processing and so on) kind of guy who quite new to working with servers…
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Need to clone a Red Hat Server to replace current drives with larger ones

We need to completely replace a drive in a Red Hat 4 linux box with larger drives, as we have run out of space. We are looking for utilities or applications (Ghost?) - or a process that will allow us to do this. Essentailly, we need to clone the…
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Cloning Windows SBS 2003 to different machines (with different hardware configurations)

I'd like to save time and clone an existing Win 2k3 server to new hardware. Is this possible / advisable? Thanks
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UEFI pxe boot Ghost for Windows 10 deployment

I need to use ghost cast server to image upcoming Win 10 machines. Unfortunately I have to use ghost for legacy reasons. Is it possible to network boot uEFI pxe computers and image GPT partitioned with the latest ghost cast server?
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How can I create a bootable media image that provides automated recovery?

I have clients/employees who use company workstations and want to create a dedicated restore partition on the drive such that when they boot into it, it boots into an automated recovery sequence, and restores a particular partition to a particular…
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Golden image updates in qemu

Consider that there are 100 windows virtual machines coming from a single base image and each vm is added to domain along with minor other machine specific settings which can be done by a script. After a week say I want to update all vms with a…
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Can I run Windows Deployment Services from start to finish without using the network?

I'm fairly new to the Imaging world, and I'm going to be imaging some Dell Venue tablets that don't support PXE booting. I've been reading up on WDS and see that I could potentially create something called a discover image in order to effectively…
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Xackup Backup Type for Xen Server 6.5

I'm running the Xackup trial and started backing up a few linux and windows VM's. I selected disk and memory state as the type of backup. Everything ran fine and backed up ok. When I went to edit the scheduled backup plan I made to add another VM…
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Windows Disk Image (sysprep) with multiple domain accounts

I have not a simple problem. I would like to make personalized sysprep (Windows disk image) for more than 50 windows domain account. Suppose I have more than 50 computers with the same parameters, but uploading the image and log on to the domain…
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Is it possible to host a FOG Project server on Amazon EC2?

I am totally new to imaging in general and have been looking into different options. The FOG Project seems especially appealing because of cost. My company makes pretty extensive use of Amazon Web Services, including hosting all of our server-side…
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Truncate empy space from a raw dd image

I have a raw disk image I took using dd of a Ubuntu instance. The total disk size is 300 GB, but only 5.5 GB used. Is there a way to resize the raw dd image down to 20 GB, keeping all of the 5.5 GB of data, and just truncating empty blocks?
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Boot a qcow2 image in Ganeti

I am very confused on how Ganeti actually boots machines. My problem is quite simple. I have a qcow2 image in a machine and I want to boot it. How can I do it? I don't really understand the idea of using OS definitions and I can't find a clear…
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