Questions tagged [clonezilla]

Clonezilla is a free disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution

A free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment solution. Allows a user to clone an individual machine or many computers

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Cloning multiple partitions in Ubuntu

I am attempting to clone multiple partitions with either Clonezilla or dd without cloning the whole drive which consists of: A boot partition A home partition Seen below is the original installation on a 128GB SSD, which I successfully cloned to a…
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Make a carbon copy of Ubuntu 14.04 and reinstall it later

My Ubuntu set-up is quite complex and it requires few hours of installing software, changing bash configuration and creating a lot of symlinks. Since I often experiment with my system, it tends to get broken and I need to spend few hours configuring…
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Strategy Need to Migrate larger SATA drive to smaller SSD?

My current 12.04 install is on a 750GiB SATA drive and I would like to smaller 480GiB SSD. I only have about 250GiB in use right now, along with an 8 GiB swap partition. I regularly use Clonezilla, but understand that I would need to shrink my…
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Backup a remote server with Clonezilla

I've got a Virtual Private Server and I would rather make a backup. The fact is I got the cheapest VPS and it comes without any backup feature. So I wondered if it were possible to use CloneZilla to make a disk image of my server.
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How to make a bootable backup of my 14.04 computer

I have Ubuntu 14.04 running the GNOME shell and i want to know how to make a full backup of my os and files and settings. I cannot use remastersys and i have tried clonezilla but keep getting errors. If someone can give me a program, or tutorial on…
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Backup SSD as image

I want to backup an existing SSD on a new notebook with a pre-installed Windows, Recovery Partition, ... before I wipe it and install Ubuntu on it. (It is too small for a dual-boot) Until now I have been using dd for that kind of situation. But now…
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Migrate server with Clonezilla to larger disk

I have a virtual Ubuntu server with a 40 GB hdd. I used Clonezilla and created an disk image of that server. The reason I want to clone it is because of disk space (I need more). The other server is in a HP Blade Center, so it's a phisicial one with…
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Is it possible to use Amazon Glacier as backup target for CloneZilla?

If I boot up a system with the CloneZilla LiveCD, is it possible to create a image of an entire disk and upload it to Amazon Glacier? Edit: Maybe my question could be misunderstood. I know that it is possible to create images of entire disks with…
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Blank screen after entering password on login screen after clonezilla restore

I get a blank screen after entering my login password at the ubuntu login screen. And after a short while the login screen is restored. Any further attempts result in a similar cycle as before. This is happening inside VMWare virtual machines. I had…
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Restore Clonezilla Disk Image to a Disk of a Different Size

I use Clonezilla at my school to save and restore disk Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows images over LAN. When I try to restore an image to a computer with a disk whose size is not identical to the disk where the image was created, I cannot restore the…
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Use clonezilla without booting from the clonezilla live cd?

I have two hard drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sda. Predictably, I boot from sda. When I boot from the clonezilla live cd and go through the wizard to make a backup image, it tells me that I can use a command like "/opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-sr -option1 -option2…
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Why does Clonezilla disable swapfile?

# uname -r 5.13.0-27-generic # lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-11.1.0ubuntu3-noarch:security-11.1.0ubuntu3-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 21.10 Release: 21.10 Codename: impish # swapon /swapfile file 12G 0B -2 # clonezila (...) #…
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Preseeded network install is overwriting USB install drive

Let me provide as much information as I can about what I'm doing: I work in a lab development environment managing over 100 server systems. We frequently need to re-image systems with different operating systems and are using CloneZilla to do this…
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how to copy all applications from one linux machine to another

I wonder how I can copy all applications from one linux machine to another? I have a "source" machine (Ubuntu 16.04) which has all the configurations, setup and many complex application installed on it. Then I have a new fresh "destination" machine…
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Is using exFat (linux driver) for writing backups safe?

Using an exFat partition gives me the advantage to be able to read and write on Windows and Mac natively. While Windows and Mac are using the original driver from Microsoft (Apple bought a license), the Linux driver is reverse engineered. So my…
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