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Ghost for Unix (G4U) 2.3
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G4U is an operating systems independent application that can be used for disk cloning. It boots either of disks or LiveCD - and then allows you to copy all of the content from a harddisk to a remote server or other local disk or partition. Mainly built for distributing similar images across a network of computers, but can be used for backup purposes as well. | |  See detailed product rating and read or post comments | Open source software similar to Ghost for Unix (G4U) |  FOG
Available for: windows mac linux unix java
FOG is an imaging solution for Vista and Windows XP that makes use of some open-source tools and a PHP based web interface. It is unique in that it requires no boot disks or CDs, using TFTP and PXE... Read more | Clonezilla
Available for: windows mac linux unix java
Clonezilla is an open source solution to computer backup, restoration and "ghosting". It is based on partition imaging and allows you to backup and recover your system should it be taken out by a... Read more | Partition Image
Available for: windows mac linux unix java
Partition Image is an open source disk cloner. It will create a complete image of the partitions you wish to backup that can be spilt into multiple files for storing on removable media - or copied... Read more |
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Ghost for Unix (G4U) is an open source alternative to
|  Symantec Norton Ghost 15.0
Available for: windows mac linux unix java
Norton Ghost is almost the ultimate solution when it comes to backing up your data. It backs up everything on your harddisks including operating system. Even if you have a complete harddisk failure -... Read more | Acronis True Image
Available for: windows mac linux unix java
Acronis True Image is a backup system that saves everything on your computer. Should computer fall victim to a crash or virus attack you can save literally everything on your hard drive. Your... Read more |
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| Ghost for Unix (G4U) news feed | Announcing g4u v2.5
After an extended time for beta testing, I'm pushing out g4u V2.5 now, with
no functional changes between 2.5beta1 and the final release. Of course full
release testing was done on the final... | NetBSD vs. disk transfer speeds vs. BIOS settings
A few days ago, Brian Hoard made
an interesting finding about performance
of
g4u,
a NetBSD/i386-based disk cloning system.
Citing from
Brians mail:
``First, my problem was I had just... | g4u 2.5beta1 supports handling of partition tables and bad disk sectors
After some absence (job-related) and technical problems
(building of NetBSD failing for me from Mac OS X),
I'm very happy to release a beta version of g4u
with some long-overdue changes.... | Netbooting g4u via PXE
Doing a network based boot with PXE is not exactly hard,
but you need some debugging and the right tools in place.
If you want to netboot g4u, the NetBSD-based tool for harddisk
image cloning... | |
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