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Clonezilla<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.clonezilla.org/">http://www.clonezilla.org/</a><br>
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<h3><font color="#3333ff">What is Clonezilla ?</font></h3>
<blockquote>You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary
commercial package <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ghost.com">Norton
Ghost®</a>, and its OpenSource counterpart, <a
href="http://www.partimage.org" target="_blank">Partition Image</a>.
The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time
to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also
heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.norton.com">Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition®</a>
with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS)
solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!<br>
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Clonezilla, based on <a href="http://drbl.sf.net">DRBL</a>, <a
href="http://www.partimage.org" target="_blank">Partition Image</a>, <a
href="http://www.linux-ntfs.org/" target="_blank">ntfsclone</a>, and <a
href="http://udpcast.linux.lu/" target="_blank">udpcast</a>, allows
you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are
available, <a href="http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/">Clonezilla
live</a> and <a
href="http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-server-edition/">Clonezilla
server edition</a>.
Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.
While Clonezilla server edition 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 server edition 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!<br>
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<h3><font color="#3333ff">Features of Clonezilla</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>Free (GPL) Software. </li>
<li>Filesystem supported: ext2,
ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, and FAT, NTFS of MS Windows.
Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux or MS windows. For these file
systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For
unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in
Clonezilla. </li>
<li>LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported. </li>
<li>Multicast
is supported in Clonezilla server edition, which is suitable for
massively clone. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a
bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your
clients. </li>
<li>Based on <a href="http://www.partimage.org" target="_blank">
Partimage</a>, <a href="http://www.linux-ntfs.org/" target="_blank">ntfsclone</a>
and dd to clone partition. However, clonezilla, containing some other
programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole
disk. </li>
<li>By using another free software <a
href="http://drbl-winroll.sourceforge.net/">drbl-winroll</a>, which is
also developed by us, the hostname, group, and SID of cloned MS windows
machine can be automatically changed.
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<h3><font color="#3333ff">Which Clonezilla Shall I Use ?</font></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/">Clonezilla
Live: Allows you to use CD/DVD or USB flash drive to boot and run
clonezilla (Unicast only)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-server-edition/"
target="_blank">Clonezilla
server edition: A DRBL server must first be set up in order to use
Clonezilla to do massively clone (Both unicast and multicast are
supported)</a></li>
</ul>
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