OT: Clonezilla-live works

[Les Mikesell]

Vitorio Okio wrote:
>
>> Clonezilla is just a menu-driven scripted wrapper around standard 
>> unix
>> tools but it uses partition copies that know enough to only copy the
>> used portions when possible (ntfs and most linux filesystems) so it 
>> is
>> faster than dd, and it can connect to storage for the images over 
>> the
>> network via nfs, samba, or ssh with menu choices as well.
>>
> 
> Well, I use it for cloning local hard drives.   It works fine but in 
> simple scenarios only.  Here a coule of examples where I found it 
> useless.
> 
> 1. I cloned two hard drives hda1 - master and hdb1 - slave but 
> bootable with Windows on it.  The setup was made the way I could at 
> any time remove hda1 with Ubuntu completely if needed, then set hdb1 
> as master and boot into Windows.
> 
> All at a sudden :-) my hda1 drive failed.  I set hdb1 as master worked 
> with it and after a while needed to restore the image of it made by 
> Clonezilla...  No luck.  Clonezilla remembers that the drive was hdb1 
> and now it become hda1.  I tried to edit image configuration files 
> manually but ended up messing it up. :-(  May be my fault.

I've been able to do that by changing the name in the file that has the 
name and partition setup - I forget the filename now but I think it is 
documented.

> Luckily all was an experiment only. :-)
> 
> 2. Another scenario where Clonezilla did not do the job, was restoring 
> a partition.  Clonezilla offers as an option partitions cloning.  So I 
> cloned one.  Then I needed to change my partitions order and sizing on 
> hdd.  After that I wanted to restore a cloned partition to a new one 
> (of the bigger size).  It did not do the job just because the 
> partition number on hdd changed.

I don't understand that one.  In partition mode you tell it which 
partition to use.

> But for simple scenarios - restore in as it was environment - 
> Clonezilla is quite good.  It's fast, reliable and quite simple to 
> use. 

It's really intended for mass-copying of a working system but is simple 
enough for one-off copies or backups if you don't mind rebooting for 
image-copy mode.

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   Les Mikesell
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