Clonezilla

[Tom H]

> What is the reason that Ubuntu Karmic does not provide a DEB program
> package for CloneZilla?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonezilla calls it rather vaguely a
> "solution".
> Is the reason that Clonezilla doesn't work well (or wasn't sufficiently
> tested) with ext4? Or because it is a LiveCD vs a regular program,
> unless you're referring to the server side, which I imagine one could
> run on Ubuntu?

clonezilla is a distribution not an app that can be installed in
another distribution:

>From the Clonezilla home page:

...Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and
Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single
machine backup and restore...

clonezilla supports ext4:

>From the Clonezilla home page:

...Filesystem supported: ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of
GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS...