clonezilla
Clonezilla, based on drbl, partclone and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. This package provides Clonezilla SE (server edition) which is for massive deployment: it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously.
Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting.
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Regarding a couple of reviews in March and April, CloneZilla is a text-mode application, not a graphical one. So it doesn't install into the GUI menu system (at least, not in my Mint 20 Mate). You start it by typing "sudo clonezilla" in a terminal and enter your password. Then choose the first option ("device-image") to make a copy of a partition. You'll then be asked where to store your partition images - choose local_dev and then choose somewhere. I think it will only copy partitions which are not mounted, for safety reasons, so unmount them first. Enjoy!
Startet nicht, direkt deinstalliert. (Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon, Kernel: 5.4.0-109-generic)
Installed and nowhere to be found, brilliant! No instruction no info no nothing.
Clonezilla is a Great tool! It can save you a LOT of headaches. If you are using it to work on you currently running Linux System, you may want to try the Live CD Distro from their Website, but if you are Using your Linux Machine to Clone Hard Disks that are on External Media, you should be able to use this package directly. It takes care of The disks Serial and other HDD Identifying systems making life very easy if you just want to backup a windows system and have a readilly accessible HDD in the event of a catastrophic Disk Failure. Very Nice, One of the best. I have used Acronis and many others, but this is one of the bes. The first time you use it you may want to run the Live Distro from their Website on a test machine (or an old one that you wont mind loosing any data from, just to learn how it works), You will also want to read read read before you Confirm any Operations. After your first use of this program, you should have it because it's generally straight forward. It will save you a lot of headaches. "dd" is a GREAT Backup program too, but this handles compression and archiving and partitioning and maked the whole process basically automated. I have used it several times and now it's the only Program I use for a simple Disk Backup program.
It works but, by God, the menus are just incomprehensible. Had to watch a youtube vid to make sense of it all.
I download from the main site, burned it to dvd and have been using it for years with ALL the os's I've ever had loaded. It can clone disk to disk, make and image that you can turn into an ISO file to burn to a dvd and boot from to restore your system... You Really Need the Documentation to understand it properly. Best Program I have evr used for the cloning function... Never let me down.
Apparently it works well...if you can sort through the nearly incompreshensible and numerous steps to actually use it.
5 tries to get it to work off a USB have failed. 2 different USBs. Three different downloads of Tuxboot to install it on USB only lead to Clonezilla files being opened up from the zip, but never worked as a boot USB. 19 hours to get it to work and nothing but time wasted.
Not sure why some people hate Clonzilla so much - it creates backup images that are crosscompatible with most other open-source part-manager programs - which makes recovery easy (not restricted to recovery from Clonzilla).
This backup utility is an absolute garbage. I am going back to my Acronis True Image Boot CD. Uninstalling now.
The text is too incomprehensible. There is already so much text but you still need a tutorial to figure out how to use it.
I have been trying to make a copy of my windows XP disk with CloneHD, it took days before the copy was ready but I had problems starting the clone disk. Clonzilla cloned the disk in less than an hour and my old laptop is fully functioning again!