Apple Mac Full System Image Cloning?

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STdio2012-09-27 16:37:29

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STdio, 2012-09-27 16:37:29

Friends, the next task is worth it!
There are about 160 devices on OsX (90 MB Pro, the rest are Mac mini). Having prepared one machine (installing all the software), you need to clone it to all the others. The problem is that they should be running both OsX and Windows7 in BootCamp partitioned.
Last time, on a slightly smaller volume, we first cloned OsX (which is easy), then partitioned the disk and then uploaded the image with Windows. However, this is a rather hemorrhoidal path that requires a lot of time. What I would like ideally is a bootable USB drive with a full system image, from which we boot and upload a full system image with OSX and Windows.
Is there any tool for Mac for this kind of thing, or maybe you can suggest some other way?
Thank you!

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Igor, 2012-09-27
@shanker

I once used LiveCD to create a copy of an entire disk via Acronis True Image.
You can try it or Acronis Snap Deploy

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Stepan, 2012-09-27
@L3n1n

habrahabr.ru/post/132498/
I remembered that I had already read about your problem.

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Iliapan, 2012-09-27
@Iliapan

Offhand: cook everything on one computer (donor).
Connect to it disks from other computers to the maximum, let's say 6 pieces.
Boot from the macOS installation disk, launch the disk utility and use it to copy the contents one by one to all disks. She doesn't care which partition is Windows or not.
I don't remember exactly how she copes with partitioning, in extreme cases, write a simple script and run it through the built-in terminal.
You can boot from the installation disk only once to clone the system somewhere. Then you can already clone from this image while the system is running.

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kuzemchik, 2012-09-28
@kuzemchik

windows cannot be cloned, or it will be necessary to change their sid later, otherwise they will not be assembled into a domain

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Perkov, 2012-09-28
@Perkov

Acronis won't help. We are preparing one car completely. (do not forget to run C:\Windows\System32\sysprep for Windows) and start it in target mode (with cmd+t boot). Now, using firewire, your computer looks like an external drive, from which we clone, even dd from the boot cdrom, even with a native utility. At the first start, Windows itself will make new seeds for itself.
Although on tight volumes - I would think about network installations. The keyword is "Remote Install Mac OS X". With Windows it is more difficult - but solvable.