Disk cloning software

[Amargorojo]

After recommending clonezilla to many people and using it in my labs for many customers, I am in a position of looking for something a little more robust.

I need to find a software program that will clone a drive without installing anything on it or even time-stamping the disk or otherwise "touching" it besides reading the data. The software must also provide a report of the clone process including a message of completion not just a pop up window that says "Clone complete".

Requirements:

Must not be a windows product since just the act of booting with the drive attached to a windows box will change the drive a time stamp or some other file is written to the drive, and my customer will have to go through another 6 months of validation testing with the FDA. windows would be OK if it did not write to the master disk

Capable of cloning fairly quickly.

Some sort of verification phase that will test the new drive against the old drive and create a report indicating that it passed or failed.


Thanks in advance

[peterb]

either dd or dcfldd running under Linux.

dd will do the job quite adequately, but dcfldd is another version of dd that will give a progress report and can optionally generate a hash of the disk that is to be cloned and a hash of the clone or cloned image so that the clone can be verified. Cloning is not particularly fast what ever you use, and creating the hash is also time consuming, so it is one of those start it going and check on it every hour or two. A large disk will take several hours.

[AlicePhoebe]

i think easeus disk clone can help u