Scripting clonezilla for unattended deployment tonngroup. Clonezilla is an open source application that can be used to backup linux operating systems. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. By using this, we dont need to install and configure a machine one by one since we can restore the same image to all client terminals in an instant using unicast, multicast or broadcast deployment. Download an iso image of the latest stable version and burn it to disc or create bootable usb. Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone tool similar to norton ghost.
So i guess this seems that compression was indeed used and that the smaller size of the image is perfectly in order. When you go to download clonezilla, it asks you some questions that i dont understand. Using clonezilla to restore a device image signagelive help. Clonezilla does not have a fancy graphical interface. The goal is to create a boot menu with a few image choices and add it to your multiboot toolkit for easy deployment of images.
If you dont have a physical device or partition as large as the original partition, it is possible to use partclone to do the restore to a sparse file. The second option devicedevice is to clonerestore disk to disk or partition to partition. To do that we do not have to install thirdparty ppa repository because they are part of the default repository ubuntu 18. This means that your main partition, which is your main repository, will use the name sda and your second drive will be defined as as sdb and so on. Download clonezilla live, burn the iso image you can use the free imgburn for this and boot the computer from the cd. The partition i cloned had very few media files in it. After saving the bios, restart and hit f12 again, select the usb thumb drive, and boot clonezilla. Clonezilla ocssr commandline options manpage github. This step in assigning where the clonezilla image will be saved is very important. You know that data backup is the most important part of every small and large organization.
If you are not familiar with the disk or partition name in gnulinux, read the hints. I n this article, we will learn how to install clonezilla disk imaging software partition cloning software in ubuntu 18. All i have to choose from are savedisk saveparts exit. Clonezilla is saving disk image sda to the partition of 2nd disk sdb1. The computer is an intel core i7950 cpu with 12 gb of ram and a solid state drive for the c. In the clonezilla select mode box, for some reason i do not have any restore options. If yes can the same image of windows2012r2 server be used to restore to a vm also. You can also crossreference discs using their size. If failing to mount sshfs and samba server as image repository, clonezilla now asks if retrying. The device has to have a valid partition table and partitions need to be formatted with a supported filesystem, including ext234 or even ntfs. If the image gets corrupted afterwards, the checksum allows to notice the corruption before the image is restored.
This pseudo image only contains some metadata files, and it contains no real data from the device devsda. Advanced clonezilla usage steven shiau, ceasar sun, jazz wang, thomas tsai. Select sdb1 as image repository, then choose savedisk option top choose the directory name on devsdb1 as the image repository. It can be used to convert a clonezilla image to a virtual disk file qcow2 and vmdk via kvm.
It is at this point you insert the external drive that holds your intended signagelive hardware image. That file would have an apparent size as large as the original partition, but would use only as much actual disk space as the used space in the original filesystem. How do i use clonezilla to clone my windows hard drive. Clonezilla runs on top a driven command line wizard and can clone the data blocks of a hard drive directly from one disk to other disk or create images for diskspartitions to a locally attached hard disk or a mounted. Create full windows backup with clonezilla to samba or ssh. Then when choosing image repository, you could choose the usb flash drive as repository. To create a bootable live usb drive for clonezilla live, drbl live, gparted live and tux2live. Now you enter which drives clonezilla should clone. Boot up your clonezilla usb stick on the computer that you want to backup, and the first thing youll see is a normallooking boot menu.
As i previously stated, for those of you using clonezilla server the instructions should be pretty much the same, except that instead of booting from a livecd, you will be booting from the network connecting to a clonezilla server which will store your image. The underlying gnulinux operating system was upgraded. Nov 24, 2016 this article shows how to use clonezilla to create a backup image of an encrypted drive as well as restoring from a backup image. Choose start clonezilla choose device image option. This device can be an internal or an external device. Although in this scenario, there is no need to take an image, yet still we have to mount the image repository so that the temporary image for bt from device mode can be saved. If you are using ubuntu linux, you can use ubuntu ppa to install tuxboot. Youll be asked language and keyboard questions, and when you arrive at the start clonezilla menu select start clonezilla.
It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. The new and definite clonezilla tutorial dedoimedo. This release is based on the debian sid repository as of 2019sep03. Clonezilla is saving disk image sda to the partition of 2nd disk sdb1 boot the machine via clonezilla live in this example, the machine has 2 disks, 1st disks name is sda device name in gnulinux, 2nd disks device name is sdb. By default clonezilla will check the image if restorable after it is. Once you have your two network cards setup you are ready to start installing clonezilla. So lets go ahead and install it using the following command. The introduction and features of clonezilla can be found at the web site of clonezilla. The network config settings done by ocslivenetcfg will be saved to varlogocsnetcfg. It contained mostly system files and installed software.
Insert the disc in the cd drive and shut down the computer. Aug 07, 2014 boot up your clonezilla usb stick on the computer that you want to backup, and the first thing youll see is a normallooking boot menu. The clonezilla image repository mounting status will be saved to varlogocsmount. Using clonezilla to create and restore disk images notes. Im looking to make an image backup of a windows 7 64bit machine. Make sure to download the stable version of this tool. Full disk backup and restoration by clonezilla endpoint. You need to choose the device you want to save your images to. Sep 17, 2019 clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.
You cannot extract files from a clonezilla image without restoring that image. Clonezilla is a free and open source software for disk imaging and cloning. Downloads to download drbl live, select the following cpu architecture, file type, repository, then click the download button. The problem is that clonezilla cant access hard drive because of power management option of windows 10 setting power off as hibernation. The solution is to uncheck quick start to let clonezilla acces to hard drive. This means that your main partition, which is your main repository, will use the name sda and your second drive will be defined as as sdb and. Using clonezilla to restore a device image signagelive. This is very important if you are setting up clonezilla on a production network with an existing dhcp server. If your using a usbflashdrive for your clonezilla image repository, then create filesystem prior with. How to clone an encrypted disk image with clonezilla. The default release runs on debian linux and an alternative version runs on ubuntu. Mind you, calculating the checksum takes some time and slows the process down a little.
How do i use clonezilla to clone my hard drive copy hdd. If you are in a linux environment, you can almost make sure you do not want to choose a drive called hda. The simplest way to run clonezilla live is from a usb disk. Clonezilla is available to download in two stable releases.
Clonezilla is a system that allows us to restore a captured image cloning to client terminals. However, you can shrink the partitions, getting rid of unused space, and then create your image. Advanced clonezilla usage steven shiau, ceasar sun. To download clonezilla live, select the following cpu architecture, file type, repository, then click the download button. Sep 06, 2016 how to install clonezilla on ubuntu 16. Other versions of clonezilla in focal no other version of this package is available in the focal release. The first step is to install the key for the clonezilla repository. First we must get the required tools to complete this task. You will now receive a message relating to wanting to use a usb device as a clonezilla image repository. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.
This is the target or the destination, officially known as clonezilla image repository. This release is based on the debian sid repository as of 2016jun21. This release is based on the debian sid repository as of 2014may27. Jan 10, 2019 after updating the packages and repositories, we are now ready to install clonezilla disk imaging software partition cloning software. Checksum files are gpg signed by drbl project, which has the fingerprint. Mar 02, 2011 download clonezilla live, burn the iso image you can use the free imgburn for this and boot the computer from the cd. Clonezilla can get to be annoying picking though the advanced settings before you deploy and image. Correct, clonezilla used gzip compression and file splitting when storing the image. Oct 02, 2016 im looking to make an image backup of a windows 7 64bit machine. Can i use clonezilla successfully on windows 2012r2 dcsql server to take an image and restore the server if somethings happens. If your machine comes with uefi secure boot enabled, you have to use amd64 x8664 version either debianbased or ubuntubased of clonezilla live. Clonezilla recognises my usb drive which has the image on it and indeed seemed to have no problem in making the image in the first place but for some reason no matter which option i choose, beginner,expert etc i never get a restore option in the select box. Start the computer and boot from the source of the clonezilla media cd drive or bootable usb.
Choose the directory name on devsdb1 as the image repository. The clonezilla image is a tool that can be very useful in case of full system disk backups or in restoring damaged partitions. Connect the usb hard disk which contains the backup data for restoration. Here i am using the ubuntu version due to better support for drivers at the time. The first step is to download iso images from the clonezilla website. If your machine comes with uefi secure boot enabled, you have to use amd64 x8664 version either debianbased or ubuntubased of clonezilla live checksum files are gpg signed by drbl project, which has the fingerprint. Select the repository that will contain your image. May 10, 2016 the last i knew clonezilla did not support restoring an image to a smaller drive, it has to be the same size or larger. How to image and clone hard drives with clonezilla. Enter the following in the terminal to download the key. Select sdb1 as image repository, then choose savedisk option. Apr 04, 2015 clonezilla can get to be annoying picking though the advanced settings before you deploy and image.
Clonezilla is a utility for linux, so drives use the linux naming convention. All versions of clonezilla live support machine with legacy bios. Install clonezilla disk imaging softwarepartition cloning. The plan is to save the image to an external usb hard drive. If you do not choose to ram option in the boot menu, the device is busily mounted a file filesystem. Clonezilla is a partition and disk imagingcloning program similar to true image or norton ghost. The last i knew clonezilla did not support restoring an image to a smaller drive, it has to be the same size or larger.
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