Drive Imaging
Drive Image XML: Image and Backup Logical Drives and Partitions
- Free private version, as low as $5/user bulk commercial licensing available
- Backup logical drives and partitions to image files
- Browse images, view and extract files
- Restore images to the same or different drive
- Copy directly from drive to drive
- Schedule automatic backups
- Run DriveImage from WinPE Boot CD-Rom
Download/Homepage: http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
Clonezilla: Image and Backup Logical Drives and Partitions
- Free (GPL) Software.
- File systems supported: ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows and Intel-based Mac OS, no matter it’s 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.
- LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.
- Multicast is supported in Clonezilla SE, which is suitable for massively clone. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.
- Based on Partimage, ntfsclone, partclone, and dd to clone partition. However, clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.
- By using another free software drbl-winroll, which is also developed by us, the hostname, group, and SID of cloned MS windows machine can be automatically changed.
Download/Homepage: http://clonezilla.org/
Partimage: Open Source disk/image backup –Linux Based
- Free Open Source Software
- Supports ext2/ext3, reiserfs-3, FAT16/32 Windows, HPFS, JFS, and XFS file systems
- Partitions can also be saved across the network
- The image file can be compressed with the gzip / bzip2 programs to save disk space
- Images can be split into multiple files to be copied on CDs / DVDs
Download/Homepage: http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page