Clonezilla
Discover a free, open-source solution for disk imaging and cloning. Clonezilla ensures efficient large-scale deployment by simultaneously cloning over 40 computers. Supports unicasting and multicasting for versatile backup, based on Partclone and more for enhanced speed. Ideal for tech pros.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Features
- Disk Cloning
- Live booting from usb
- Disk Imaging
- Fast cloning
- Portable
- Linux-based
- Clone to smaller disks
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- NTFS Partition Recovery
- Works Offline
- Boot HDD Partition
- Remote backup
- PXE
- Encrypted Backup
- Schedule Backup
- Recover disk partitions
Tags
- Backup
- disk-backup
- bootable-cd
Clonezilla News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Clonezilla
Clonezilla Live 3.3 has been released with Linux 6.16 Kernel, Alias Devices & eMMC SupportClonezilla Live 3.3.0-33 is now available, built on the Linux 6.16 kernel with improved hardware co...
- POX published news article about Clonezilla
Clonezilla Live 3.2.1 is now powered by the Linux kernel 6.12 and drops i686 supportClonezilla has released version 3.2.1 of its disk imaging and cloning software. This update is powe...
- POX published news article about Clonezilla
Clonezilla Live 3.2 released, based on Linux kernel 6.11 and Debian Sid repositoryClonezilla has launched version 3.2 of its partition and disk imaging and cloning program. This upd...
Recent activities
TheEmperorArt added Clonezilla as alternative to AweClone
TheEmperorArt added Clonezilla as alternative to Aomei Cloner- VeritasVestas rated Clonezilla
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What is Clonezilla?
Clonezilla is a free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment solution.
You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®. The problem with these kind of software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!
Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partclone and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. There are two types of Clonezilla available: Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition).
Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.
Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously.
Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency.
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Clonezilla information
Developed by
Steven Shiau Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.4Alternatives
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4 news article related to ClonezillaSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
The tool is working well; I had to image the system using Clone in order to move the system to a new drive, and it works very well. I highly recommend it.
If you want to use this with windows, you’ll need to put the installation file on a bootable USB or CD/DVD, restart your PC, and boot from the USB or DVD. It takes an effort vs a program like Hasleo which makes cloning easy. Setup and use are confusing starting with choosing the version Amd64, i686, or i686-pae, (my understanding is that you use i686 for 64bit intel systems) Generally your second drive must have an equal or larger capacity. Clonezilla optionally provides an advanced –icds mode, which can let Clonezilla ignore disk size while cloning or restoring. That’s to say, if you use this mode, Clonezilla will not check the destination disk size before creating partition table." .. doesn't sound safe.
Best free-open tool. Better than payd tools
Clonezilla can be installed and run on a live session or a locally installed GNU Linux distro.
Menu-based TUI cloud be a little inconvenient for Windows users.
Clonezilla worked fine the one time that I used it so far. The clone ran flawlessly.
An important note: While the AlternativeTo page for it says it does, Clonezilla does NOT support Incremental or Differential Backups yet.
It's decent for whole drive imaging but the UI is dated and options are rather confusing. I've had some issues with it in the past.