Решение для создания образа системы

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Description: powerful disaster recovery suite
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 may even use it to backup non-Linux partitions, such as NTFS.

dd и nc лучшая в мире связка для бэкапа образа винчестера по сети.

о, спсб за полезную ссылку - я как раз искал что-то подобное :)

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