Clonezilla
Open-source partition and disk imaging, cloning and recovery solution with multicast support to clone 40+ computers simultaneously.
- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
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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.
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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- Developed by Steven Shiau
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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.
For users looking for an easy-to-use graphical Clonezilla interface, I have carefully developed Rescuezilla to be a graphical fully interoperable replacement to Clonezilla. Of course, Clonezilla has many more configuration options to tweak (especially in "Expert Mode"), but Rescuezilla is able to restore these backup images -- and backup images created by Rescuezilla can be restored using Clonezilla -- so I think it's a good alternative for even advanced Clonezilla users. Rescuezilla is of course free and open-source (licensed under the GPLv3). It's fork of Redo Backup and Recovery (now called Redo Rescue) after that application had been abandoned for 7 years.
I should mention that since your post in June 2011, browsing Clonezilla backup images has become possible, but it's still pretty difficult for most users. Once some other priorities have been completed, I will make an easy-to-use application to mount Clonezilla images and restore/extract individual files: https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/issues/20 This will be available as a graphical tool and as a command-line interface, including standalone packages that can be installed on arbitrary Linux distributions. :)
Unfortunately just like Clonezilla, Rescuezilla does not yet have differential/incremental backup. This feature will not be added any time soon: unilaterally adding this feature would prevent Rescuezilla backups from being able to be restored with Clonezilla, which would not be cool.
Reply written 3 months ago
If you want an image this software rocks. Used it in Linux env, not Windows though.
Saved my life (ok, the computer's) a dozen times through backups (disk clones) that always work.
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.
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!