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If you choose local_dev, then you’ll need a local partition with enough room to store your image. The size of your destination partition or drive must be the same size or larger than the volume you’re copying. This is where you select the location for your backup image to be copied to. This screen is a little confusing, with options for local_dev, ssh_server, samba_server, and nfs_server. In the next menu select device_image, then go to the next screen. You’ll be asked language and keyboard questions, and when you arrive at the Start Clonezilla menu select Start Clonezilla.

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Now you have a nice portable Clonezilla USB stick you can use almost anywhere.īoot up your Clonezilla USB stick on the computer that you want to backup, and the first thing you’ll see is a normal-looking boot menu.

It asks you if you want to reboot now, but don’t worry because it won’t. Click OK, and when it’s finished click Exit. It should find your USB stick automatically, and you should check the partition number to make sure it found the right one. Check “Pre-downloaded” and click the button with the ellipsis to select your Clonezilla file. This example shows a 2GB stick formatted as a single partition. I like to use labels, like “clonezilla”, so I know what it is. First create a FAT32 partition of at least 200 megabytes figure 1 (above) shows how it’s done in GParted. Once you get Tuxboot installed, use it to create your nice live bootable Clonezilla USB stick.

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If you’re not running Ubuntu and your Linux distribution doesn’t include a packaged version of Tuxboot, download the source tarball and follow the instructions in the README.txt file to compile and install it.

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Installing Tuxboot is a bit of pain, though Ubuntu users can install Tuxboot the easy way from a personal packages archive (PPA): $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:thomas.tsai/ubuntu-tuxboot Tuxboot is a modification of Unetbootin that supports Clonezilla you can’t use Unetbootin because it won’t work. Alternative Stable is based on Ubuntu, includes some non-Free firmwares, and it supports UEFI Secure Boot.Īfter you download Clonezilla, install Tuxboot to copy Clonezilla to a USB stick. Stable is based on Debian and includes no non-Free software. There are also Testing releases, which I recommend if you’re interested in helping to improve Clonezilla. When you visit the download page you’ll see Stable and Alternative Stable releases. Today we shall create a Clonezilla Live USB stick, clone something, and restore it. Clonezilla SE is a wonderful bit of software that we shall cover in the future. Clonezilla SE is for larger deployments, and fast multicast cloning an entire network of PCs at once. Clonezilla live is ace for cloning single computers to a local storage device or network share.

(A quick note on blocks: disk sectors are the smallest addressable storage units on hard disks, and blocks are logical data structures made up of single or multiple sectors.)Ĭlonezilla comes in two versions: Clonezilla Live and Clonezilla Server Edition (SE). So, the short story is Clonezilla can copy anything. It’s a good tool for backing up a complete Windows system with all of your installed applications, and I like it for making copies of Linux test systems so that I can trash them with mad experiments and then quickly restore them.Ĭlonezilla can also copy unsupported filesystems with the dd command, which copies blocks rather than files, so it doesn’t need to understand filesystems. Clonezilla supports 32- and 64-bit systems, both legacy and UEFI BIOS, and both MBR and GPT partition tables. It supports all the major filesystems including EXT, NTFS, FAT, XFS, JFS, and Btrfs, LVM2, and VMWare’s enterprise clustering filesystems VMFS3 and VMFS5.

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Clonezilla is a partition and disk cloning application for Linux, Free-, Net-, and OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Windows, and Minix.

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