Hello. Firstly, AWESOME program. We received 60 hand-me-down HP workstations which were wiped and all needed to be reinstalled with XP and ready to be re-deployed. After creating a "master" image, we Sysprepped the system and using this, we were able to clone all 60 workstation very easily; from about 4-7 computers a day up to 20+ a day. Consistantly with the restore disk features, we were getting 1200MB/min (yes, 1.2GB/min) transfer rates via multicast for 5-10 workstations a pop. We had previously used Ghost Corp and even for a single workstation, we were lucky to get 600-700MB/min.
Anyway, now for my question. Even though they're all the same HP D530 computers, some have Western Digital and some have Maxtor hard drives in them. Even though they're 40GB drives, there were subtle differences. When we tried to restore to a Western Digital drive using the original Maxtor image, we received errors about the partition being out of limits of the drive, or something similar. I tried a number of different switches and nothing seemed to work. I ultimately ended up have to create a new master image using the WD drive and it worked fine even with the Maxtor drives.
Looking through the forums, I see someone stating something about using the '-t1' switch to resolve issues such as this. Since I was using the Clonezilla-DRBL-Live-CD for the server (can't locate the d/l link any longer to see version), I couldn't install it on a Linux box (sorry, others in the shop are holy believers in M$ only). I didn't see a '-t1' option anywhere in the first configuration options for this. I assume it's because the Live-CD isn't running the latest greatest stable version.
I was wondering when this was going to be updated or is the DRBL Server Live-CD even out there any longer.
Thanks.. -Jeff
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You can find your DRBL live version by checking the file "DRBL-Live-Version" in your Live CD. A newer one was uploaded recently here: http://drbl.sourceforge.net/download/sourceforge/
As for your question about harddisk difference, sometimes even the difference is slight, the partition size is actually slightly smaller than the source image. Partimage or ntfsclone will fail even the target partition is only 1 byte smaller than the original size. An alternative method is you can prepare a partition table first and make sure the partition size is equal or larger than the original one, then when you restore an image, remember to check -k (skip creating partition in the target disk) and -r (resize the file system to fit the partition size).
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Hello. Firstly, AWESOME program. We received 60 hand-me-down HP workstations which were wiped and all needed to be reinstalled with XP and ready to be re-deployed. After creating a "master" image, we Sysprepped the system and using this, we were able to clone all 60 workstation very easily; from about 4-7 computers a day up to 20+ a day. Consistantly with the restore disk features, we were getting 1200MB/min (yes, 1.2GB/min) transfer rates via multicast for 5-10 workstations a pop. We had previously used Ghost Corp and even for a single workstation, we were lucky to get 600-700MB/min.
Anyway, now for my question. Even though they're all the same HP D530 computers, some have Western Digital and some have Maxtor hard drives in them. Even though they're 40GB drives, there were subtle differences. When we tried to restore to a Western Digital drive using the original Maxtor image, we received errors about the partition being out of limits of the drive, or something similar. I tried a number of different switches and nothing seemed to work. I ultimately ended up have to create a new master image using the WD drive and it worked fine even with the Maxtor drives.
Looking through the forums, I see someone stating something about using the '-t1' switch to resolve issues such as this. Since I was using the Clonezilla-DRBL-Live-CD for the server (can't locate the d/l link any longer to see version), I couldn't install it on a Linux box (sorry, others in the shop are holy believers in M$ only). I didn't see a '-t1' option anywhere in the first configuration options for this. I assume it's because the Live-CD isn't running the latest greatest stable version.
I was wondering when this was going to be updated or is the DRBL Server Live-CD even out there any longer.
Thanks.. -Jeff
You can find your DRBL live version by checking the file "DRBL-Live-Version" in your Live CD. A newer one was uploaded recently here:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/download/sourceforge/
As for your question about harddisk difference, sometimes even the difference is slight, the partition size is actually slightly smaller than the source image. Partimage or ntfsclone will fail even the target partition is only 1 byte smaller than the original size. An alternative method is you can prepare a partition table first and make sure the partition size is equal or larger than the original one, then when you restore an image, remember to check -k (skip creating partition in the target disk) and -r (resize the file system to fit the partition size).
Steven, thanks for the reply.
I know with Ghost, you can do a disk to disk clone with a larger sized hard drive as a target drive.
Can Clonezilla do something similar?
Thanks..
Yes, but not straightforward.
Check this:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=26_resize.faq
We will focus on this feature recently.