Disk Imaging

[1jeremy]

I work for a school district and I am looking for a new Disk Imaging program. Currently we are using Norton Ghost but are constantly having issues with the Drivers. I Have used Acronis True Image Home Before and like the fact that it uses a Kernel so you don't have to worry about drivers. They don't offer a just Business Disk Imaging suite, they have a deployment package with imaging but they want 25 a computer! Does anyone have any good suggestions? Multi casting is a must.

 

[bytes]

We use Ghost here at my job. Never had an issue with drivers. What kind of driver issues are you experiencing?

We also use BartPE.....I used to run into driver issues with Bart until I added driverpacks and storage drivers. Now, it works great.

 

[gikstar]

There are good versions of Norton Ghost and there are some that don't seem to work very well. We tend to use a very old version but it doesn't work on all drives so we also use a paid version of Acronis and also Clonezilla.

So, another option is Clonezilla-Live, you might check that out.
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php

 

[iisjman07]

You could look into FOG - http://quadmaster.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/fog-free-hdd-imaging-solution-for-linux/. It's free, open source, so you won't need to pay anything to use it, and you can make a pxe server and boot pc's from it, among other things. It's very good, I'd recommend it.

Alternatively, Trinity Rescue Kit has a program called 'mclone'

 

[1jeremy]

There are good versions of Norton Ghost and there are some that don't seem to work very well. We tend to use a very old version but it doesn't work on all drives so we also use a paid version of Acronis and also Clonezilla.

So, another option is Clonezilla-Live, you might check that out.
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php

What version of Acronis do you use?

 

[cpaul123]

i am with gikstar...Clonezilla +1

 

[Cuban_Tech]

A reply.

+1 for Clonezilla. I also like PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost).

 

[dbdawn]

FOG is pretty good. If you are doing windows machines I would look into setting up MDT as it is really good and a breeze to work with once you get everything set up.

 

[NETWizz]

Try KBOX. It will do your helpdesk, inventory, imaging/scripted-installs, and software deployment.

If you really think you must have multicast, the ZenWorks Image Engine is the best I have found for robustness and reliability.

I have not used ZenWorks in a long while, but I miss it. Novell I do not miss after migrating to Active Directory... everything simply works better.

 

[parttimetechie]

I use Macrium Reflect *Free*. Its a great program, quick and easy to use. You can buy the paid version to unlock more features.

 

[Karlin High]

I've used Clonezilla (free and good) and Image for Windows, made by Terabyte Unlimited (paid and great, I think.) Terabyte also has Image for DOS and Image for Linux. Unlike Clonezilla Live it can run under Windows inside my TrueCrypt drive and allows viewing image contents and restoring individual files from an (AES encrypted) image. It looks like they do offer OS deployment products based on the same system, but I know nothing about them.

 

[GRIMTECH]

I use clonzilla, I've never had a problem. recommended