[plug] Open source drive copy for multiple OSes

[sothisistheinternet]

My employer is willing to let me test out open source software (and I
will be looking into your suggestions), but today has decided on the
linux+windows version of Acronis Server for our regular server
backups/images.

Ari

On 8/28/07, Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 22:32 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 20:04 +0800, sothisistheinternet wrote:
>
>
> > For backup with/without compression try "rdiff-backup" - it also offers
> > the benefit of maximum speed by using rsync under the hood once you've
> > done the initial backup.
>
> I hit send too soon the first time. The above should have said "...
> benefit of maximum speed by using rsync under the hood _because_ once
> you've done the initial backup it only backs-up changed files bit-wise
> (byte-wise?)"
>
>
> > For cloning a complete os for deployment across many cloned machines,
> > with no file or link exclusions, try "clonezilla".
> >
> > Can't offer you urls atm, nor do I know whether you'll get clones of
> > your windows servers from a separate linux box, but worth knowing about
> > those two as far, far better than dd.
> >
> > HTH. Gavin.
> >
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