Questions tagged [clonezilla]
CloneZilla is a free cloning/imaging tool that creates and restores snapshots. It can also be used for mass deployment.
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Clone only space in use from hard disk
Can I use dd, rsync, clonezilla or any tool to clone only space in use in my hard disk in Linux? I need to do a backup from a 1 TB HD (with only 2 GB space in use) into a 500 GB HD.
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Windows 7 Cleanup before Clonezilla backup
I updated a Win7 box with SP1 and upgrade the browser to IE11. I would like to delete any files that are not required for operations (i.e. install files, etc.) so as to avoid archiving them ...
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Clonezilla won't clone to a smaller disk
According the docs, Clonezilla supports cloning to a smaller drive using the option -icds. Let's cite:
If you are sure all the data from the image could fit the smaller
disk, i.e. it won't be ...
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Clonezilla fails at cloning with mismatched GPT and MBR partition
I got this message:
This disk contains mismatched GPT and MBR partition: /dev/sda
Clonezilla's FAQ says:
You might have installed an OS with GPT partition table, and later
overwrite the disk ...
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How do I prepare my system for cloning, before using CloneZilla?
Part 1 is here if anyone is interested:
Clone or Image a PC
I've got 100 PC's to setup. Is it possible to set up 1 of these PC's
with software, drivers, settings, configs, licenses etc, then
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Cloned disk - duplicate disk signature, how to resolve?
I have cloned a hard drive to an SSD using Clonezilla. Both drives were of identical size, and the process appears to have worked successfully.
I can boot into Windows 10 from the SSD without any ...
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Force cloned hard-disk image upon a smaller hard-disk
I have a image which was taken with Clonezilla as SAVEDISK on a 160GB harddrive.
Now a newer version of the PC released with a 120GB harddrive, the space in use is just 20GB
Is there a way I can ...
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Clonezilla restore from Samba - no 'restoredisk' option
I used a CloneZilla LiveCD to back up a couple of Windows machines to a Samba share. Now I'm trying to restore those images, and CloneZilla won't even give me the 'restoredisk' or 'restorepart' ...
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Clonezilla creating disk image read/write issue
I am using clonezilla to create an disk image of my existing Windows 10 system however just after I answered yes to start the process it says:
-> "/home/partimage/<myImageName>".
Are you ...
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Clonezilla disk to disk clone on a dual boot ubuntu karmic & XP setup - cannot open '/boot/grub/device.map'
I just tried to clone a failing existing boot drive for a dual boot system with Ubuntu karmic and Windows XP installed using Clonezilla. The cloning worked fine right up until the end when I got the ...
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How to restore partition table, when restoring entire disk using Clonezilla?
I created an image of my entire disk, just after purchasing my laptop, using CloneZilla. The disk image was created with the graphical version of CloneZilla, but in the logfile clonezilla-img, it says ...
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Clone entire disk to image using clonezilla and keep bootloader(s)
I have hardware issues with my notebook, so I'm sending it in tomorrow and need to backup the disk. Because I have multiple OSes installed it would be very important for me to preserve the bootloaders ...
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File-based backup of encrypted Linux systems?
I learned that tools such as clonezilla cannot omit free blocks when the disk is encrypted, which is a huge problem, since the backup drive always needs to have at least the same size as the source ...
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Clonezilla , NLite and PCs with different hardware specs
I used Clonezilla to create and restore images from a master computer to other workstations with the same specs, but the problem now is there are new computers whose hardware specs are different than ...
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Creating a Master Image to roll out to 30 new Machines Licensing Issues
At my company we are buying 30 new Identical PC's from Dell so we have standard setup.
What i want to know is if its possible to configure one of these machines to our specification as a master and ...
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