Imaging Program
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So I have a physical server (yes, yes I know.) - Not my choice.
It has a 60GB SDD drive in it (yes, yes I know.) - Not my choice.
I am going to change it to a 240GB SSD drive - the other drive is full.
What the best program to use? Server 2008R2.
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Clonezilla will do this without any issues. Just need to make sure you have a big enough drive to store the original image.
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Ideally I would like to go drive to drive, and not make a image.
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Clonezilla will do Disk 2 disk.
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I "think" that Clonezilla can go drive to drive, too. But I've never tried this so I'm kinda guessing. I know that just using dd will go drive to drive.
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@aaronstuder said in Imaging Program:
Ideally I would like to go drive to drive, and not make a image.
To my knowledge Clonezilla will do D2D but I've never done it. http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone
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@coliver FIRST OF ALL, BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA BEFORE YOU USE CLONEZILLA LIVE TO DO ANYTHING.
Sounds like a image isn't a bad idea
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@aaronstuder said in Imaging Program:
@coliver FIRST OF ALL, BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA BEFORE YOU USE CLONEZILLA LIVE TO DO ANYTHING.
Sounds like a image isn't a bad idea
Yep, not a bad idea at all to have backups....
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After I get this done, I am going to want to image the
drive (240GB SSD) daily to the 
drive (2TB spinning rust)The whole d drive is backed up offsite. What do you suggest for this? The SSD drive is for speed only.
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@aaronstuder said in Imaging Program:
After I get this done, I am going to want to image the
drive (240GB SSD) daily to the drive (2TB spinning rust)The whole d drive is backed up offsite. What do you suggest for this? The SSD drive is for speed only.
Windows has a built in backup that may be something to check out. I think it was available on Server 2008R2.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770266(v=ws.10).aspx
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@coliver I always forget about that. Thanks.
I guess Veeam Endpoint would work as well.
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FWIW, I know there's a copy of Acronis True Image that is free for use with WD and Seagate drives.
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@Danp but it doesn't work on Server OS
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Samsung SSDs include a great disk imaging program - 100% success using their tool to clone a system onto a new SSD.
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@Danp said in Imaging Program:
FWIW, I know there's a copy of Acronis True Image that is free for use with WD and Seagate drives.
If you've got the cash I recommend the full version for any SMB that does a lot of imaging. Brain dead simple, reliable. It's not cheap.
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I use Acronis True Image, works great.
To image a 60GB SSD would take no time at all. So disk to image isnt necessarily a bad thing.. But it does do disk to disk.
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For a single instance of this any of the drive cloning software should work just fine (acronis and such). If you wanted an imaging solution I would recommend Fog.
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I use Clonezilla to handle D2D stuff on occasion. It works perfectly fine.
That said, I would do Disk to image on a NAS and then image to new disk anyway just to have a backup, because paranoia.
During the restore process (or D2D if you go that route) you have specifically selected advanced mode and then hit the -k1 option on the very last screen to resize everything to make the rest of the space available once you boot windows on the new drive.
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Clonezilla worked great! and fast!
