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Backing up multiple computers with Macrium Reflect - nested image files
I'm planning to back up 12 old computers and HDDs from my parent's collection. These are yet to fail despite their age. My method involves imaging the drives and partitions with default compression ...
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Create ext4 image skipping free space
To backup an ext4 partition the easy way is just to use cat or dd:
cat /dev/sdXn > backup.img
dd if=/dev/sdXn of=backup.img
This of course is just a low level copy, so also the unused disk space ...
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HDD imaging and data recovery
I have a 1TB NTFS single-partition non-OS hard disk drive on my Windows Server 2012 PC, about 80% full, that has gone bad after a couple years of use. The drive retains the entire (now empty) ...
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Can I get Windows Backup and Restore to save more than one system image backup on a single drive?
I've been using legacy (Windows 7) Backup and Restore on a Windows 10 Pro system to generate system image backups that can be restored from bare metal. A major limitation of the tool, however, is that ...
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How do incremental imaging programs know what changed?
When you tell an imaging program like Macrium Reflect to create an incremental backup, how does it figure out which clusters have changed on the volume since the last backup?
For example, does it look ...
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Is it possible to restore an image from Acronis into a single partition, instead of the whole disk?
I haven't worked with Acronis yet (or any other OS cloning software), but as far as I know, it has to be restored on a blank HDD instead of a single partition (out of 2 or more).
So, is that possible ...
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How to clone Windows HDD to a smaller SSD with Windows built in tool
I would like to move my OEM Windows from a big HDD to a smaller SSD. Windows 7 + SP1 has a built in toool.
My problem is that it could not find a way for it to make an image file only of the used ...
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What's the simplest way to capture an image of an OS and apply it to another drive? [duplicate]
I have a 1 TB hard drive with OS installed (Windows Server 2012 R2), several partitions, dynamic disk.
All I want to do is back everything up so I can basically clone it to a bigger drive. However, ...
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Can Clonezilla clone a computer that is running live over a network? Can anything?
I saw a similar but not duplicate question. Is it possible to use Clonezilla to clone a computer over the network? Now I have to boot into the CD like always, but wondered if it could be done. If ...
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How to create an image/installer of multiple installed programs on Windows 7 for free?
Note: Without creating a fresh new image.
I have a base Windows 7 OS (with some software)
I want to install multiple applications (20-30), and then capture all these installations in a single image/...
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Creating Mountable Image of a Partition?
I'm after a way to do a quick dump of a users HDD (typically NTFS, but sometimes HFS) on to an external drive or a network location, that saves an image of the contents of the drive so I can pick ...
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What software allows reliably re-image 40+ computers? [closed]
I often have batches of laptops/PC's to re-image and have tried various methods, but each of them has been problematic and often take more time to troubleshoot than it would have been to image them ...
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How can I copy my Windows installation to a smaller HDD?
I'm almost certain my "new" hard drive I bought last August is the cause of constant BSODs. I've re installed Windows and they keep happening, so...
I have a smaller hard drive (320gb vs the "new" ...
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Does backup by full disk image even make sense wrt Windows activation?
Tools like Acronis promise to enable you to restore the PC to a running state in no time, because when your hardware is defect, you just replace it and restore the backup and everything's fine.
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Windows imaging/backup at shutdown?
While I am still looking for a backup solution that works for dummy users, I have found one feature that (apparently) none of the backup+imaging software tools I've found does:
Doing a harddisk image ...
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Low level imaging of a HDD
I have a HDD with several partitions, each with a different Operating System.
If possible, I would like to make one image of the entire hdd so that it can be restored at a later date.
The other ...
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