Your last chance to clone a disk if Clonezilla & Co fail to boot, because you can install it from within a live session of Linux Mint too with: sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get -y install fsarchiver
I use version Qt4 fsarchiver. It gives me (visually) more controll over the backup & restore process. Suited for Desktop and Laptops, even live backup is posible, although a warning is shown. The best thing is that you can ad a note to the backup, in which you can for example note the configuration. LM version 17 amd64