Hi,
In the past Server cloning was usually not reliable, and even the best commercial products could not accomplish cloning on servers due to MS copy protection, dissimilar hardware issues including special NIC and GPU requirements and limitations. Server 2012 is a W10 era product, and so I've never personally done it. The 3 current best backup softwares that do cloning reliably on workstation PCs are
Macrium Reflect, Acronis True Image, and EASEus TODO. Several of us here have rigorously tested this on W10. However, I don't know how well Server products from this companies would work for you. I believe that I would start with
Macrium first, as I believe that they have the most innovative technology for both image backups and cloning.
Take a look at these 2 links:
Macrium Software
Macrium Software
You have not mentioned whether you are running this in an office or business environment, but with only a couple of client workstations it sounds like you might be running it at home, and are testing either the Server 2012 software or other programs, programs that you possibly are developing on this platform. Home users do not usually run this software as it's quite expensive.
Thousands of dollars there.
If you fall into the latter category (am only guessing what you are doing with Server 2012 at home??), and you are running a few apps possibly
Exchange or SQL server with a couple of user machines, cloning might work with the above products.
You can check websites for
Acronis and
EASEus TODO and see if they have similar product offerings. This being said, there is a big difference when you are running a network server with a couple of apps on it with a few users, and hundreds of apps and thousands of users on a live production network server. Cloning software for those situations, has never worked well in the past.
However, that was many years ago (early 2000's), and the technology may now exist as I mentioned. Some of the other guys here are still in IT and have direct recent experience with cloning of large production network server drives, which is what Server 2012 software is designed for.
I guess I am telling you that even if Macrium or one of the other products works on your Pilot network server to Clone the boot drive, there is a long way to go to Cloning on a large production network server.
Apples and Oranges I'm afraid.
Hopefully, others here will correct me if I am wrong or out of date on this or both.
Best of luck with your search,
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