Re: Drive Imaging

[Andy Doller <andy@sabine.acs.psu.edu>]

I have used Power Quest's Drive Image Pro 3.0 on just about every OS.
The features that work depend on the OS/Filesystem that is present on
the drive.  Unfortunately, this is primairily a M$ product.  With DIP
you can create and modifiy any NT partition on any drive and even expand
a previously make image to fit a larger drive (going smaller is not
recomended).  As for it working with OBSD, and the like, it will work
but only if you restore to exactly the same drive.  DIP doesn't know how
to deal with the data on the drive it just moves each byte off as it
sees it, so it can't change Unix partion information. Its compression
feature works well enough that I can fit my production machines on a CD.  
If a machine is corrupted/hacked/user screwed up/whatever, pop in the
floppy and the CD and the machine is back in 15 min.

Its PowerCast ability to serve images over a network is also benifical
when running a lab or maintaining a number of different images.

BTW, I asked PowerQuest about being able to do more than a sector by
sector copy for UNIXes and they basically said don't count on it. Linux
was a posibility but not much else.

Hope this helps,

Andy Doller
Penn State


On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 VladimirDenis@olsinc.net wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:07:13 -0400
> From: VladimirDenis@olsinc.net
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Drive Imaging
> 
> Hello everyone, I am wondering what solutions/products you have used for
> drive imaging.  I have heard of two  products (PowerQuest's Drive Imaging
> and Norton's Ghosting) that might work with OpenBSD (we are using version
> 2.7).  Any help, experiences, or comments would be greatly appreciated.
> 
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