Happy App Friends
Isn’t it fun to find applications that play well together? Here’s a few tools that I’ve taken to using side-by-side to make my job easier on a day-by-day basis.
FileZilla and Putty.
Putty is GREAT for making SSH connections to control remote *nix servers, but SCP commands can be a pain in the rear for moving files back and forth, specially through complex connections. FileZilla is a perfect companion, shifting files about with no fuss. (For those who don’t already know, SSH = SFTP)
VirtualBox and CloneZilla
Virtual machines are super quick and easy to create / copy / experiment with, but then what can you do with them? Well, how about using CloneZilla to bring your virtual experiments out in to the real world? Here’s an example … enable CD-ROM pass-through on your virtual machine and a USB device filter to mount your external hard-drive. Boot your virtual machine while your CloneZilla bootable CD is in the tray… the VM will boot CloneZilla, and allow you to make an image of the virtual machine (saved on your external USB drive) as if it were a physical computer. You can then use the image and CloneZilla to create clones of your VM on actual physical computers 
. Yay! (I do this all the time, saves a TON of development work).
Tags:clone, clonezilla, filezilla, putty, sftp, ssh, virtualbox, VM