imaging software

Question 1

what is formatting a machine with an image of another machine called?

Answer 1

imaging a machine

Question 2

How does a disk cloning tool work

Answer 2

makes a copy of an entire desk and allows you to back up a current machine or set up a new one

Question 3

what is the benefit of cloning over standalone installation media

Answer 3

you can also install settings and folders you might need

Question 4

what is zillow

Answer 4

a disk cloning tool. open source, can be used to back up and restore a single machine for many machines simultaneously

Question 5

what is semantic ghost

Answer 5

a popular commercial imaging tool

Question 6

what is disk to disk cloning

Answer 6

you connect an external hard drive to the machine you want to clone, like an external hard drive dock.

Question 7

What are hard drive docks?

Answer 7

External tools that look kind of like toasters

Question 8

what does dd do in linux?

Answer 8

copy files, may also clone drives.

Question 9

when cloning a drive in Linux, what is the first thing we want to do with the connected drive?

Answer 9

make sure it is not mounted by checking
umoutn /dev/sdd

Question 10

what dd command will you use to clone a drive to an unmounted sdd in linux?

Answer 10

dd if=/dev/sdd of=~Desktop/my_usb_image.img bs=100M
This says: I’m gonna copy the contents of /dev/sdd, which is the usb drive, and save it to the desktop in an image file. once the image file is saved if we open it up we can see the exact same contents as we see on the usb drive.

Question 11

when is disk cloning often used

Answer 11

when an enterprise company purchases a large number of identical computers

Question 12

what do you do when you have to deploy lots of computers?

Answer 12

select a new computer to install and configure needed items, OS, files, utilities, tools, network settings, software, drivers, firmware, etc. Then, make a clone of the hard drive for that configured system and deploy it to the new computers. keep a copy of the original disk in case reimaging is required.

Question 13

what can be used to test new software and configurations before applying the updates to similar production systems?

Answer 13

cloned disks.

Question 14

uses for cloned disks:

Answer 14

system migrations, data backups, disk archival, copy of a hard drive for investigative or auditing purposes.

Question 15

What are some uses beyond deploying operating systems for clone discs

Answer 15

system migrations data backups dis archival, making a copy of hard drive for investigative auditing purposes

Question 16

what are machines that can make identical copies of hard drives

Answer 16

hard disk duplicator

Question 17

how does a hard disk duplicator work

Answer 17

the original drive is inserted into the duplicator machine along with one of more blank hard drives as targets. disk duplicators can have anywhere from a single target bay for limited disk cloning of to one hundred target bays for industrial use. drives are not blank the duplicator machine can wipe the drives. the target drives usually need to share the same characteristics of the original drive. the targets should also have the same or greater storage capacity than the original

Question 18

what sort of interface does a hard drive duplicator potentially have

Answer 18

else interface or a management software HTML interface which can be accessed over a network or directly connected computer or server

Question 19

how do most duplicators copy data

Answer 19

sector by sector

Question 20

what does cloning by disk cloning software allow

Answer 20

the original and target media can be different media from one another. a hard drive can be cloned from an ide drive to solid state drive a city ram DVD removable use drive cloud based system or other storage media.

Question 21

what is the most efficient method for cloning servers and workstations

Answer 21

VM cloning

Question 22

whatdoes software cloning support

Answer 22

fold is copies including the operating system all setting software and data or copies of select partitions of the drive which is useful for data only or operating system only copies

Question 23

what are a few examples of disk cloning software