Thank you all; you have answered my questions! I have about five images I use most of the time. I do believe your suggestion to deploy from FOG and then capture using CZ would be my best option! And thank you for helping me understand the fundamental differences between FOG and CZ!

Thank you all; you have answered my questions! I have about five images I use most of the time. I do believe your suggestion to deploy from FOG and then capture using CZ would be my best option! And thank you for helping me understand the fundamental differences between FOG and CZ!

@Junkhacker Thank you for the quick reply. There does appear to be some type of compression difference between CZ and FOG. When you use Clonezilla to create an image, it creates a file with the exact command it used. I was hoping FOG did that somehow too, log the command used to create the image. I will look at it further and see what I can do.

Is there something that shows a detailed guide how FOG works?

What I am looking for is… If I want to use command line to manually restore an image, what commands would I type? Sometimes I would like to just plug in an Ubuntu hard drive into one non-networked computer and restore the image. Our FOG server runs at a different location, and the way the network is setup, we have many different VLANs and ACLs that keeps FOG from working at remote locations. We have a mobile server, but that takes time to setup. If I have just one computer at a remote location that needs to be imaged, I want to store the FOG image on a USB hard drive and use a live Ubuntu CD or even Clonezilla to restore that image.

Clonezilla is a different issue altogether. From what I understand, FOG uses pigz compression and a mysql database. Clonezilla uses partclone. If there was an easy way to convert a FOG image to Clonezilla, that would be helpful too! I do have ssh and ftp access to the FOG server so can get whatever data is necessary.

Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated!!

Thank you.