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CloneZilla Live is a Live CD that allows the cloning of our disk and / or partitions. This can be very useful, either to do backup of that or for clone multiple machines with the same configuration (procedure that is very common in many companies to save time). |
Clonezilla Live
Clonezilla Live allows users to clone an individual machine, partition or disk to be played on another medium. The cloning can be saved as an image file or as an exact copy of data. The data can be saved locally, on an SSH server, Samba server, or an NFS file share and then restored at a later date. The software can be run from either a USB flash drive or CD / DVD boot.
Clonezilla Server
Clonezilla Server is used to simultaneously clone many computers over a network. This is done using a DRBL server and workstations that can boot from a network.
Clonezilla main features
- Free (GPL) Software.
- Supported file systems: (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs of GNU / Linux, (2) FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS + of Mac OS, (4) UFS of FreeBSD , NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and (5) VMFS of VMWare ESX. Thus, Clonezilla can clone GNU / Linux, MS windows, Mac OS (Intel-based), FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD systems, regardless of whether they are 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64). For these systems, only the used blocks are cloned. For other unsupported file systems, sector-by-sector cloning is possible, but complete.
- Support for LVM2 under GNU / Linux.
- Grub support (1 and 2).
- Support for multicast, which is very useful when cloning systems in bulk.
- You can rely on Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to create the image or clone a partition. However, it is also possible to clone entire disks and not just separate partitions.
- Using drbl-winroll it is possible to automatically change the server name, group and SID of the cloned Win system.
The cloning process
During the cloning process, it will ask us several questions , which are basically the options we have in the program; some of these are:
Clone Type Options:
- Device-to-image copy: both backup and restore backup.
- Device-to-device copy: we can clone an entire disk or just a partition of it.
Directory options, or basically where we will restore/store our backup from or to:
- Local machine: either an internal or external hard drive.
- SSH server.
- Samba server.
- NFS server.
Compression options , or how we want our disk image to be compressed:
- Gzip compression: fast but image somewhat smaller than the real one.
- Bzip2 compression: the slowest but at the same time the most compressed.
- Lzo compression: faster than gzip and similar in size.
- Without compression: obviously the fastest but also the one that will occupy us the most.
Sources: Clonezilla & Genbeta & Wikipedia