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    Post Cloning software

    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

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    Re: Looking Through Windows

    I'm assuming that removing the drive to be cloned and attaching it to another machine is fine? If so... DD?

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    Re: Cloning software

    Use dd or for progress reports and has verification, dcfldd.

    Google either of those. They both run under Linux. If you want to be certain of not writing to the disk, use a hardware write blocker, or mount the drive read only.
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    Re: Cloning software

    Macrium Reflect is pretty good.
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