SilverLeaf
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Not sure if this will work for you, but this is how I do it:
http://www.technibble.com/forums/showpost.php?p=379724&postcount=3
What are the specs of your backup/imaging machines (including software)?
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Not sure if this will work for you, but this is how I do it:
http://www.technibble.com/forums/showpost.php?p=379724&postcount=3
jbartlett323
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That would work, but clonezilla gzip's them by default. So to mount them you have first extract them. Which means the gzip command is twenty miles long because clonezilla also likes to split the archive by default. Though even if the command wasn't bad, I would have to wait for it to extract, then mount it... Too much time. That's why we just have a USB3 1TB External we restore to if needed. But a file browser (no extract, no mount) would be ultimate.
That is why for the majority of my tasks I make a .wim or a VHD. That way I can mount it if I need to grab a few files. Usually I go VHD so I can fire it up in a VM if needed.
Usually I just hook up the drive to my bench machine, it's a C2Q, 8gb, 1TB HDD (OS, but is failing so will clone to the other) 3TB (Dump), 7 Pro. I have a couple sata laying out, and for pata I just use a USB adapter.
I have a computer I mainly use for cloning, made a couple images on it, and use it for recovering data. Pentium DC, 2gb DDR (booting live discs), first it had a SSD, then no hd, now it has a 500gb just for dumping data.
I also have an almost identical machine at home to my bench minus the HDD. C2Q, 8gb ram, same mobo, 320gb hdd.
Usually I just hook up the drive to my bench machine, it's a C2Q, 8gb, 1TB HDD (OS, but is failing so will clone to the other) 3TB (Dump), 7 Pro. I have a couple sata laying out, and for pata I just use a USB adapter.
I have a computer I mainly use for cloning, made a couple images on it, and use it for recovering data. Pentium DC, 2gb DDR (booting live discs), first it had a SSD, then no hd, now it has a 500gb just for dumping data.
I also have an almost identical machine at home to my bench minus the HDD. C2Q, 8gb ram, same mobo, 320gb hdd.
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I am typing on what is my last custom build i did for myself.
abit ip35 mobo, wolfdale 8400, 4x1gb g-skill ddr2 with heat spreafers, g-force 9800gt, cooler master hyper 212 plus, mx-2 paste, Xplosion 7.1 dts sound card, duel lite-on dvd burners, 500g WD black, floppy drive, Antec 550w, 3x18amp rails, 4x120mm case fans, all round cables, routed and zip tied nice and neat inside a highly modified case, that i cut out the side, installed plexi-glass window and air brushed paint job.
I`ve had this thing OCed six ways to sunday, pushed to and beyond every limit on anything that i could tweak, amazing that it still runs at all.
does not clone drives any faster than the hakintosh that i use does
i started with cobian 8, then ubcd4 windows,aka-drive xml, that is a hit or miss, gost, acronis 10, linux live cd`s, fiddling with p2vhd and other stuff, thanks to the people of this forum
edit: what the hell is a spreafers??
abit ip35 mobo, wolfdale 8400, 4x1gb g-skill ddr2 with heat spreafers, g-force 9800gt, cooler master hyper 212 plus, mx-2 paste, Xplosion 7.1 dts sound card, duel lite-on dvd burners, 500g WD black, floppy drive, Antec 550w, 3x18amp rails, 4x120mm case fans, all round cables, routed and zip tied nice and neat inside a highly modified case, that i cut out the side, installed plexi-glass window and air brushed paint job.
I`ve had this thing OCed six ways to sunday, pushed to and beyond every limit on anything that i could tweak, amazing that it still runs at all.does not clone drives any faster than the hakintosh that i use does
i started with cobian 8, then ubcd4 windows,aka-drive xml, that is a hit or miss, gost, acronis 10, linux live cd`s, fiddling with p2vhd and other stuff, thanks to the people of this forum
edit: what the hell is a spreafers??
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atlanticjim
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I have been thinking of a bench machine just for backups.
It is worthwhile to have PATA on the mobo along with SATA?
If PATA is not hot swappable is it better to just have a PATA USB adapter?
It is worthwhile to have PATA on the mobo along with SATA?
If PATA is not hot swappable is it better to just have a PATA USB adapter?
ThanatosOfOne
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We usually use a pata to usb adapter for most, we keep an 865 chipset based p4 system around with a real pata interface for those drives that are massively messed and flip the USB interfaces out....
SilverLeaf
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I have PATA connectors on my bench machine. They are not hot swappable, and require a reboot to recognize the drive. USB is much easier, but slower. The only thing I use the PATA connectors for is the OS drive on my bench machine and the rare occasion that I can't get a PATA drive to work with the USB adapter.
I use external and network drives for storage. Honestly, with the volume that I do, it's perfectly feasible to just PXE boot the machine I'm working on, and then backup or image to external USB or network storage. If the machine is not bootable, then I'll remove the drive and use a USB adapter. I do have a tendency to use the internal power connectors from my bench machine, rather than the external one that came with the USB adapter, which has become unreliable.
If I was doing more volume, I'd look into getting a couple external USB 3.0 toaster-type docks similar to this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817707266
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