Re: [seul-edu] Disk Imaging tools

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Chris Hobbs wrote:
> 
> I currently use two proprietary tools for doing disk imaging across the
> network, Lab Expert and an older version of ImageCast. I'm curious if
> any knows of free, Linux based substitutes for this type of software?
> 
> If you're not familiar with it, this type of tool allows you to copy an
> image of a hard drive somewhwere else on the network (ie. server), and
> then pull it down across the network to other machines. Both of these
> tools use TCP/IP multicast, so you can image multiple machines
> simultaneously without increasing significantly the time required.
> 
This is the closest thing that I know of:

<http://members.linuxstart.com/~flux/cluclo/>

It's CluClo (Cluster Cloner), and was intended to make it easy "to
create a whole lotta clones of one
particular system. It's mainly usable for creating large (beowulf)
clusters."

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