4 open source alternatives to Ghost for disk cloning System administration professionals and home users alike share a need for the ability to be able to quickly and reliably make one-to-one copies of entire disks, both for the purposes of backup and recovery, as well as the process of easing deployments and complete refresh repairs and upgrades of existing systems. To do so, a disk cloning utility is a must, to make sure that you've got an exact, and uncorrupted, copy of your original disk. For many years, Norton Ghost (now a Symantec product) was a favorite tool among administrators and technicians seeking to clone a disk. But the market these days has widened, and many open source tools offer comparable and even superior performance. See the alternatives at http://ift.tt/2aCENdD These certainly aren't the only free and open source disk cloning tools out there. Wikipedia lists over a dozen others (http://ift.tt/1OWiQkq) with an open source license
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