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The industry standard is Acronis True Image. &nbsp;Tried and true.<br />
It uses Linux drivers for raid cards so it recognizes a great amount.
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The industry standard is Acronis True Image.  Tried and true.
It uses Linux drivers for raid cards so it recognizes a great amount.

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You could always virtualize the machine using VMware. <br />
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The vmware converter will allow you to pull a snapshot from an existing machine. <br />
<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/</a><br />
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Then you could take that image file and has as many clonse of it as you want in virtual machines. Vmware server offers a free download that can run several machines. 
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You could always virtualize the machine using VMware.

The vmware converter will allow you to pull a snapshot from an existing machine.
http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ [http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/]

Then you could take that image file and has as many clonse of it as you want in virtual machines. Vmware server offers a free download that can run several machines.

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Hello<br />
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I have an IBM Xseries server with 3 drives (Raid 5) that I would like to clone. &nbsp;Please let me know what best practice (software) would be?<br />
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Thank you.
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Hello

I have an IBM Xseries server with 3 drives (Raid 5) that I would like to clone.  Please let me know what best practice (software) would be?

Thank you.

Cloning

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