Creating a windows 2003 server system image?

Question

Backup

When administering a large number of servers running different operating systems, whether you like it or not, you have to think about backups. Those. about the OSI operational deployment system itself, in the event of its collapse, or in the event of the collapse of iron.
In general, the task is the following.
There is a system standing on windows 2003 server. On which a certain number of services are raised, such as AD, term, etc. A decision is needed to create an image of the system. Those. an image that can be burned to disk and from it restore Windows to a clean system, with drivers already installed. services and settings. (I’ll make a reservation right away that all user folders, files and other heavy items lie separately on the storage) Ie. in the image you need to roll only the system and its settings.
Acronis is not suitable because of the crazy price.
I did not find any sensible analogues that do the above. The tool ntbackup built into Windows - works terribly crookedly.

Answer 1

clonezilla might work?

Answer 2

Imagex on WindowsPE. There is also DriveXML, but it is slower.

Answer 3

aomei backupper - try)