Clonezilla is based on DRBL, Partclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available:
- Clonezilla live : Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.
- Clonezilla SE (Server Edition) : Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously.
Due to absence of the hardware, we've used Clonezilla live.
CloneZilla live can be downloaded from : http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Detailed documentation can be found here : http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php
Steps:
- Download CloneZilla live and create bootable using tuxboot
- Boot the machine via Clonezilla live
- Here we choose 800x600 mode, after pressing Enter, you will see Debian Linux booting process
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Choose the language and then in the next option, choose this :
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In the next option, choose this :
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Choose device-to-device
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In the next screen, choose disk_to_remote_disk
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Choose HardDisk you want to clone
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You can choose to skip checking/repairing source file system
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Press "Enter" to start the source server.
You can follow the instructions on the screen on the target server and the cloning will start.