Clonezilla Reviews, Features, and Download links

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.

License

Free

Supported Platforms 2 notes on Clonezilla's platform support

Mac Windows Linux

Platform comments

Mac “Live CD”
Linux “Live CD”

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Create Windows Backup / Restore Partition with Clonezilla by Britec

How to explore a Clonezilla backup using VirtualBox

Linux Talk | Full System Backups and Moving Linux from Machine to Machine

Choices to save or restore partition or disk in clonezilla

Device to image or device to device clone

Setup the clonezilla image home directory

Make this page better by adding screenshots to Clonezilla.

Clonezilla was added by ElTopo in Apr 2009 and the lastest update was made in Jan 2020. There is a history of all activites on Clonezilla in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Clonezilla or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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It's open source, no installation required, and boots from a usb.

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Comment by n4af

about Clonezilla · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 6 Helpful Report as spam

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.

by RemovedUser

about Clonezilla · Oct 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 3 Helpful Report as spam

It's open source, no installation required, and boots from a usb.

Comment by Harty1978

about Clonezilla · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 3 Helpful Report as spam

Saved my life (ok, the computer's) a dozen times through backups (disk clones) that always work.

Comment by karlblass

about Clonezilla · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 3 Helpful Report as spam

If you want an image this software rocks. Used it in Linux env, not Windows though.

Comment by em4020

about Clonezilla · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 2 Helpful Report as spam

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.

Comment by SmartWish

about Clonezilla · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 2 Helpful Report as spam

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!

by calete

about Clonezilla · Apr 2019 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Super fast and reliable cloning

Comment by em4020

about Clonezilla · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

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/

by lebaux

about Clonezilla · Jul 2019 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Opensource, free, reliable and feature proof. You can not possibly ask for more. Please donate if you can, especially if you are running Clonezilla in big corporations!

by Shojimeguro

about Clonezilla · Jan 2018 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

only runs on Live CD , only full backup supported

Comment by Guest

about Clonezilla · Mar 2017 · Report as spam

Friendly user interface. Looks like it's the real thing. Serious site. I liked it.

Clonezilla Disk Clone Problem

Comment by kannanalagar

about Clonezilla · May 2014 · Helpful Not helpful -13 Helpful Report as spam

Dear Sir,
I am new in Clonezilla live.
we have 40 machines all are 80 GB SATA Hdd. My source 80GB HDD is 50GB - Windows XP and 30GB - Fedora 17.

When i used cloned disk to disk using clonezilla live in beginners mode.

That means Source HDD - 80 GB and Destination HDD - 80GB.

Cloned successfully. The GRUB loaded correctly. When i enter Fedora 17 in GRUB menu its loaded successfully.
But When i enter Windows XP in GRUB menu the blinking cursor is displayed. not loaded properly.

i also tried fixboot, fixmbr same problem apperared.

What problem How to correct Windows XP.

Please reply.

[Edited by Venom88, September 07]

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