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Can you do RHEL 5 Disk Cloning with ATI2014 or ATI 2014 Premium

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I have a RHEL 5 Installation I would like to clone to another RHEL installation so that I have a new image of my test bed before going forward. Can ATI 2014 do RHEL disk to disk cloning from the boot cd media you can download from the purchase. I have older versions of ATI and they do not work for my needs. 2009 is the version I have right now.

Any feedback is appreciated.

RHEL 5.3 disk, with a secondary Win7 disk installed and a 3rd RHEL disk I want to clone to with my existing RHEL changes.

Dell Optiplex 960 with i5 Processor.

Step by step instructions if this is possible would be preferable. Thank you.

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It can if it's a basic (without LVM) MBR disk with ext2/ext3/ext4 FS. It may be required to fix bootability (reconfig GRUB) manually.

What I did was use the ATIH2014 Premium boot media ISO disk to launch True Image and then took a back up of the source drive (sector by sector method). Once that completed I did a recovery of that new image to a target drive. Since this is for a classroom not on a network with 23 stand alone positions this is the only way I can make this work for the time being. Its a slow process but verified everything I cloned came up just like the source image. So this works for my needs.

No GRUB configuration required. I made sure to pull all 3 partions within the drive, the MBR/Partion 1 default and the unallocated remaining space.