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Ghost and other disk cloning software

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by mo_rocca

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Hi, I work at a small company and our fledgling It department is looking for a way to backup drives, transfer profiles, and have a base image of applications and settings for setting up new sales or marketing computers for instance. Is symantec ghost the way to go or are their other programs that are better. Perhaps any freeware that does this job as well as the big dogs?

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by the scummy one

sysprep server may be better, as it will strip out the SID and
other items that may cause a problem later.
as for holding an image file for restoring a system, it should
work fine.

by mo_rocca

The component that interests me most is making a bootable image or just an image that will save me time installing office and all these other database apps over and over everytime i set up a new computer

by dumphrey

Ghost Enterprise is about the only bet, it will allow you to modify the SSID etc on a per image basis. Pricing is of course steep.

Of the open source software I have used, they are slower, and more limited (CLonezilla, G4U), do not allow SSID management, but are effective on single machines.

by mo_rocca

Anybody with preferences on clone software that can be used for provisioning a standard set of software so that a new user is ready to go straight away

by mo_rocca

So with Ghost Enterprise - everytime we deploy an image we need a seperate license at 39.20 a peice?

by nicknielsen

But not for Ghost.

Each time you deploy an image on a new PC, you will need an additional license for the operating system in that image, whether it be Windows, Red Hat, or BSD.

by jackofalltech

Ranish Partition Manager (http://www.ranish.com/part/)is the first freeware that comes to mind, but there are one or two others.

Partition Commander is a very good commercial one (I think it's better than Partition Logic).

AFAK, only Ghost has the ability to change the SID when installing the image on many computers, but I could be wrong.

by charliespencer

MS's Sysprep utility will take care of changing the SID. Run it as the last thing you do before you cut the image.

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