I've used Ghost and Acronis over the years but as far as "free" goes has anyone used Clonezilla? Opinions, feedback, etc...
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Works well
I've had no great issues with it.
Col
Col
30th Jul
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Have you done a multicast? If so, easy, hard, ???
Rob Kuhn
31st Jul
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Works perfectly for some machines
But not all. It works like a champ if you're not scared by the Linux-ey interface.
I ran into issues with using Clonezilla on a PC running an Intel SATA RAID-1 configuration. Two issues, actually...first it could not see the SATA controller at all, THEN it had issues with the USB external drive.
At that point I gave up and bought a copy of Acronis.
I ran into issues with using Clonezilla on a PC running an Intel SATA RAID-1 configuration. Two issues, actually...first it could not see the SATA controller at all, THEN it had issues with the USB external drive.
At that point I gave up and bought a copy of Acronis.
31st Jul
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Linux boot devices don't bother me. I'm pretty use to it. 
I read about the known issues with RAID and have looked through their Q&A/FAQ section and forum about this.
During my initial test/eval, I had an Adaptec SATA-RAID controller and ran into the same problem; although it was a RAID-5.
I had to break the RAID (using the controller BIOS/Setup) and make them JBODs then I could see the drives. Encouraged I created a RAID-1 (just to test - if it worked then I'd try RAID-5/6) and it was not able to see the drive; just the other drives. I have no idea why.
I didn't spend too much time with it. In my case, if I find myself having to do disk imaging on a RAID I will be using Acronis or Ghost where I know it works.
All that said, I figure it's "free" so my expectation is not going to be high
Right now I'm running into problems getting the multicast to work. It seems to be running more in a unicast (one at a time as opposed to one-to-many).
My test network for this are three machines all connected to a stand alone switch. On the switch is a home router which acts as the DHCP server but everything is a private LAN. Not connected to any other LAN or WAN.
The home router supports Multicasting as I've used this same setup when I was evaluating Acronis SnapDeploy.
I'm sure it's somethinig simple that I'm missing. Again, it's free so I'm not going to spend too much time with it. At least I can unicast to one machine which is pretty cool.
Clonezilla is still a pretty cool (lightweight) disk imaging tool and worth having in the IT toolbox.
Thanks for the feedback and your experience!
I'll keep banging away ...
I read about the known issues with RAID and have looked through their Q&A/FAQ section and forum about this.
During my initial test/eval, I had an Adaptec SATA-RAID controller and ran into the same problem; although it was a RAID-5.
I had to break the RAID (using the controller BIOS/Setup) and make them JBODs then I could see the drives. Encouraged I created a RAID-1 (just to test - if it worked then I'd try RAID-5/6) and it was not able to see the drive; just the other drives. I have no idea why.
I didn't spend too much time with it. In my case, if I find myself having to do disk imaging on a RAID I will be using Acronis or Ghost where I know it works.
All that said, I figure it's "free" so my expectation is not going to be high
Right now I'm running into problems getting the multicast to work. It seems to be running more in a unicast (one at a time as opposed to one-to-many).
My test network for this are three machines all connected to a stand alone switch. On the switch is a home router which acts as the DHCP server but everything is a private LAN. Not connected to any other LAN or WAN.
The home router supports Multicasting as I've used this same setup when I was evaluating Acronis SnapDeploy.
I'm sure it's somethinig simple that I'm missing. Again, it's free so I'm not going to spend too much time with it. At least I can unicast to one machine which is pretty cool.
Clonezilla is still a pretty cool (lightweight) disk imaging tool and worth having in the IT toolbox.
Thanks for the feedback and your experience!
I'll keep banging away ...
Rob Kuhn
31st Jul
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Backup image and restore
I use clonezilla on my XP computer to back up the working system to an ext4 partition (Not seen by Windows) on the same computer. When I needed to rebuild XP it was simple to use clonezilla to download the image giving me a year old known good system. Then just update a few things and all the microsoft updates, and clone it back up as the next known good system for next time.
1st Aug
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Cool idea. But ... if the drive dies ??
But I like that idea of using a hidden partition... Sort of like a local "system recovery" partition.
But I like that idea of using a hidden partition... Sort of like a local "system recovery" partition.
Rob Kuhn
1st Aug
That's a good idea....I have some machines with dual drives running RAID-1, but often it's probably handier to use the second drive to keep a ghost (er...Clonezilla) image of the first drive.
robo_dev
2nd Aug
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Acronis True Image 2013 vs Clonezilla
yes clonezilla is a free and reliable disk clone software, but true image 2013 also allows you create full drive images and incremental/differential backups and a lot of other stuff, i used true image for a long time and would give my word for it, here is informative comparison review of these two software http://www.acroniscoupon.info/acronis-true-image-2013-vs-clonezilla.html
22nd Jan
