CloneDeploy is a free open source solution for computer cloning / imaging. It most closely resembles an alternative for Symantec Ghost Solution Suite™ or Acronis Snap Deploy™. It supports imaging Windows XP through Windows 10, Linux, and OSX, using both Unicast and Multicast technologies. CloneDeploy was created to be used primarily in schools or small… Read More
If you read our previous article PXE Boot Almost Any ISO Image, then you will note in that article we detailed the steps to boot Macrium Reflect 6.0 over PXE. While it was not discussed in that article, Macrium Reflect Rescue media is WinPE based. The important takeaway here is that you are not stuck… Read More
Over the past few years with the advent of low cost USB drives, CD Drives have basically become legacy devices. For that matter, most new computers don’t even have one. With that said, there are lots of tools we typically use that boot from CD and yes these tools can be made to boot from… Read More
To preface this how-to, I would like to lay out the scenario that led me to write this article. Most of our clients that deploy an enterprise image of Windows typically use SysPrep to create a machine agnostic base configuration and then they capture the SysPrep’d image using either Clonezilla or Acronis True Image. This… Read More
In this article I would like to share a recent experience I had upgrading a customer server to new hardware. The server being upgraded was originally deployed on desktop hardware (Dell OptiPlex GX520) as a new server for this customer was not an option. This server was built and put in place in early 2010… Read More
Creation of bootable USB drives has become relatively easy nowadays with the help of tools like Rufus and USB Image Tool. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create a backup image of your bootable USB drive and whenever you need it, just restore the backup image using the method described in Pfsense USB Install… Read More
We have been using Clonezilla for some time now here in our lab as well as at several client sites. Recently a client of mine went about updating their Clonezilla Live PXE install to the newest version and ran into some problems. Honestly, our setup has been working flawlessly for years so I never really… Read More
Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for… Read More