Symantec Ghost used to be the tool to use, but from what I read, you no longer get a cli-client, unless you are willing to buy the Ghost Solution Suite at least 5 licenses and have another service running on a server somewhere.
So what tool do you recommend for disk cloning and image-based backup.
There are several OSS products, but it isn’t entirely clear how well they support NTFS.
I am not really to just get a list of cloning. Instead, I would like to know what tool you use, why you choose that tool, and what you use it for.
After reading the answers I have a followup question. Given the tool you suggest, is it possible, and how easy is it to extract a particular file from the image without having to restore the entire image?
Acronis has some good products.
We have been using their backup and restore products with success for about a year.
I believe they have a product just for cloning but their backup and restore software can also be used as a cloning tool.
Edit: Acronis has a trial period where you can try their products for a month. This really sold us because we were able to test and verify that the product did what we wanted it to do.
Edit: They have support for both Windows and Linux. Not really sure about Mac.
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