Before we cover imaging using the tools available in Lion Server, first it is most appropriate to look at imaging using tools available in all Mac OS X computers. In this case, we will look at imaging using Apple’s Disk Utility, available in the /Applications directory. In this example, we will take one drive (called source for ease of use), create an image of that drive, and then deploy the image to a second drive (called target, to keep things simple).

We can use Disk Utility to image one drive to another, as Disk Utility is capable of resetting the system to be somewhat unique but would still require a manual change to the computer name. To get started, first mount both the drive you will be imaging from (the source) and the drive you will be imaging to (the target) on the computer you will use (you should not use the source or the target as the computer to perform this task).