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PC Cloning Solution?

Posted by Cliff on from the "me-me-me-me-me-...-me-too" dept.

pbaumgar asks: "Like many here on Slashdot, I'm a Systems Administrator. I have become responsible for maintaining about 300 laptops that I need to rebuild on a regular basis. I am looking for a solution to image them. I've been looking at Symantec's Ghost Solution Suite and am not too gung-ho on spending all that money for licensing. Can anyone recommend an better solution that would be cheaper?"

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  1. Google and I agree: Acronis by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Funny

    was this so hard?

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  2. Easy.. by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 3, Funny

    Id use a mounted filesystem and use dd to copy an image to the other networked machine. Just use the following to copy your hard drive...

    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/your_hard_drive bs=512

    And then, you can run netcat from the tun device

    nc -i tun0 > /remote_computer_mount_point/

    Be aware, your mileage may vary.

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  3. Re:G4U by duffbeer703 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is /. so we cannot recommend using Microsoft tools, even free ones. Even such logical approaches like using unattended installs (see unattended.msfn.org) are acceptable, because they do not involve Linux or arcane unix commands.

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