Re: OT: Clonezilla-live works


"Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chris Rees wrote:

I got the safe version of clonezilla version 1.0.10-8 and it
works
just fine. Easy to put on a CD and it comes up looking like
Ubuntu. But
it has special things it can do. For example if you want to make
an
EXACT copy of your present Ubuntu or Windows or MAC on another
hard
drive it will do it. It makes it's own partition and uses your
current
file system. A lot like the dd command.

Or, you could do it the proper way using dump/restore. Seriously,
that's far safer than using dd / complicated coning software.

You should try clonezilla before commenting on its complexity. The
only
advantage of dump/restore is that it can move to a smaller
partition,
but you have to do your own partition/filesystem setup and make the
disk
bootable.

Or is that too UNIX-like for people? I've spent some time working
with
FreeBSD; the simple approach is always recommended here :P

Clonezilla is just a menu-driven scripted wrapper around standard
unix
tools but it uses partition copies that know enough to only copy the
used portions when possible (ntfs and most linux filesystems) so it
is
faster than dd, and it can connect to storage for the images over
the
network via nfs, samba, or ssh with menu choices as well.


Well, I use it for cloning local hard drives. It works fine but in
simple scenarios only. Here a coule of examples where I found it
useless.

1. I cloned two hard drives hda1 - master and hdb1 - slave but
bootable with Windows on it. The setup was made the way I could at
any time remove hda1 with Ubuntu completely if needed, then set hdb1
as master and boot into Windows.

All at a sudden :-) my hda1 drive failed. I set hdb1 as master worked
with it and after a while needed to restore the image of it made by
Clonezilla... No luck. Clonezilla remembers that the drive was hdb1
and now it become hda1. I tried to edit image configuration files
manually but ended up messing it up. :-( May be my fault.

Luckily all was an experiment only. :-)

2. Another scenario where Clonezilla did not do the job, was restoring
a partition. Clonezilla offers as an option partitions cloning. So I
cloned one. Then I needed to change my partitions order and sizing on
hdd. After that I wanted to restore a cloned partition to a new one
(of the bigger size). It did not do the job just because the
partition number on hdd changed.

But for simple scenarios - restore in as it was environment -
Clonezilla is quite good. It's fast, reliable and quite simple to
use.




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