Wednesday, January 07, 2009 

Cloning Tools

I ran across this interesting post from makeuseof.com talking about cloning tools. Several of these are free and may bear consideration as an alternitive to Ghost or similar products.

Also, here is a good Wikipedia article with lots of good info and links about cloning and cloning software.

While most of my cloning and imaging experience has been with Ghost here are three free alternatives I found that are worth further investigation:
  1. Clonezilla - Open Source cloning utility that supports unicasting and multicasting
  2. PING - This stands for Part Image is Not Ghost.  This is a free linux based imaging tool.
  3. XXCLONE - This is a cloning tool that has a freeware version and a professional version.  It appears that the free version is fully functional and the pro version offers more features.