Ghost was used a lot in corporate environment, but became a no no after we got corrupt images (which were only found out when trying to restore back).ĭrive Image (PQMagic) had excellent HD tools and nice Gui - again due to corrupt image problem it was dropped (NOTE.these issues we had were around 10 years ago, so the vendor has probably updated the product and resolved them).Īcronis because it has never failed, backups/restores are 100%, compression is good, the BootCD boots up so far on any system and HDdrive is always visible. We've tried various products on this list. I work in a school, we have to contend with grimy little children. It's free, and well supported (drivers for new Dell machines came out within a few weeks of the machines being available, SystemRescueCD is actively developed). If you're using Windows XP (don't know about Vista, haven't had to try) you can use the ext2fsd Ext2 filesystem driver to make it possible to re-write the ext2 partition, and therefore the GRUB conf file, from a Windows script, therefore making it possible to have Windows automatically reboot and re-image itself. For the actual imaging you can use dd, as already pointed out, or PartImage, both of which will handle NTFS partitions. Booting SystemRescueCD runs an autorun script that checks a network drive for a disk image of that machine (use the network card's MAC address to identify machines) and reimages the machine if it finds one. I partition the drive to create a small ext2 partition, then install the GRUB boot loader set up to allow booting to either Windows on the first partition or SystemRescueCD on the second partition. For Windows client machines on my network, I use SystemRescueCD, a boot-from-a-CD Linux distribution that you can also install on a harddrive partition.
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