Clonezilla is a free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment solution. Unlike Macrium Reflect, where you can backup a Windows partition during you work with it, the partition to be imaged or cloned has to be unmounted. You can download a complete CD-ISO-File with 124 MB (in difference to PING, where the CD-Generation is very complicated). 2 types of Clonezilla: Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. Whi... More info »
Problem w/ clonezilla is no differential/incremental backup and no ability to browse the b/u for individual files.Also, something like TI, Macrium, Paragon can be run WHILST using the OS. Clonezilla needs more of a standalone env, tho parted magic largely removes this last limitation.
Unlike Macrium Reflect, where you can backup a Windows partition, during you work with it, the partition to be imaged or cloned with CloneZilla has to be unmounted.
Since about 3 years I use Macrium Reflect Free Edition weekly for automated Drive C-backups with Windows XP and Vista 64 bit to the most full satisfaction and have restored the operating system succesfully already a few times. You can also restore single files or folders, but backup only the full drive C.I like and recommend Macrium Reflect more than Ghost, which I have used 3 years before. http://alternativeto.net/desktop/macrium-reflect/
This is an awesome tool! I use it a lot.It can backup over Samba, Ex. HDD, Internal HDD, and usb.Livecd, small 110Mb<, very powerful, and have a lot of tools!
