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Spotlight: Clonezilla system imaging

By // March 5, 2010, 5:40 AM PST // jlwallen

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  • Boot screen

    This is the last graphic you will see in Clonezilla. This is the boot screen for the Live version of the tool.

    For a full review of Clonezilla, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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  • Choose language

    Clonezilla supports multiple languages. In this screen you must choose which language you want to continue in.

    For a full review of Clonezilla, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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  • Choose image

    Which type of imaging do you want to do? Device-image takes your drive and makes and image of it to store. Device-device takes the images of your device and loads it onto another device - cloning if you will.

    For a full review of Clonezilla, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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  • Target

    From this screen you can decide how to store the image. In this example, I am saving the images on a Samba share.

    For a full review of Clonezilla, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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  • Select mode

    From this screen you select the mode you want to use Clonezilla for. You can create an image (or parts of an image), restore an image (or parts of an image), create a recovery disk, or exit.

    For a full review of Clonezilla, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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  • Snaptshot

    This screen shows Clonezilla reporting what disk space is used. Here you see Clonezilla loaded on a VirtualBox virtual image (hence the small size).

    For a full review of Clonezilla, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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  • Domain



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  • Password



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  • Session



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  • IP Address



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Boot screen

This is the last graphic you will see in Clonezilla. This is the boot screen for the Live version of the tool.

For a full review of Clonezilla, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

Image created by Jack Wallen for TechRepublic.

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