Creating and restoring an image of hard disk with Clonezilla
Clonezilla is an open source disk imaging, cloning and backup software. It supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS. You can use it to clone single or multiple machines. It is more feature-rich than commercial Norton Ghost. In this video tutorial, I will show you how to create an image of a hard drive using Clonezilla live CD which you can download from clonezilla.org. I assume that you have downloaded and burnt the CD. So let’s get started.
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September 29th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Great video. Could you change the spellling of clonzilla to clonezilla so I can submit this to digg?
Thanks!
September 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Thanks Shannon VanWagner. Correction made.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:18 am
good one, I have tried with dual booting.. didnt worked to me….
September 30th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Can you use Clonezilla to make image of a Windows Home Server?
September 30th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Sreenivas,
Where it did not work? Did you get any errors? Clonezilla allows you to create image from drive or partition or you can clone an entire disk/partition to anotherr disk/partition. If you are creating an image of hard drive, make sure you select another drive where you can store the image.
Similarly, for cloning a hard drive, you have to select hard drive other than the one being cloned.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:18 am
StorS,
You can create image of or clone anything. It does not matter what is on the hard drive.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:41 am
Thank your for your answer amjad. I read that Acrois true image cant do WHS, so… Well, I will try with Clonezilla then. Thanks.
October 1st, 2009 at 11:41 am
Thanks for this. It was a very informative video.
BTW, how did you create this video. I am interested in creating such a presentation for some other tools.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Would like to know which version (by production date) you used. There are versions from July and September. Did you use the September 21st version 20090919-karmic.iso ?
October 1st, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Dajoe,
I created the video with Wink. For more information checkout http://www.debugmode.com/wink/.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Leslie,
I used this ISO in the video clonezilla-live-1.2.2-26.iso dated Mon Jul 20 2009.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 pm
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October 6th, 2009 at 3:30 am
can’t i download this video for my tutorial????
October 6th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Thanks….
October 18th, 2009 at 10:35 am
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November 25th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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December 1st, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Hello! I don’t see ‘forums’ so I would like to ask…
Is is possible there is an incompatibility(ies)? I have used Clonezilla for many ‘drive copies’, however, I cannot succeed with the latest drive. i.e.: 80GB with five partitions: hda1=swap, hda2=openSUSE(MBRloader), hda3=(mirror), hda4=Mandriva, and hda5=simplyMEPIS. *I am testing out many systems for final selection… When I ‘clonezilla’ this drive to an exact same 80GB(Maxtor) drive, MEPIS works but the others don’t. The diff is MEPIS is ext4 and the others are reiserfs, but I didn’t think this should matter. (Otherwise, these three OSs are the latest stable builds and work beautifully on the first drive, as well a ‘toggling’ to each others’ boot menus are a ‘breeze’.) Any other thoughts?
Please advise, or at least confirm reiserfs compatibility and/or if any different file systems will cause ‘issues’. Thanks.
Al
December 4th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Al,
Clonezilla does sector by sector copy of hard drives so you should have no problem cloning any type of file systems. You may try cloning the partitions to see if that works.
March 22nd, 2010 at 6:04 pm
wow great tutorial!!! this is the best tutorial that i can find online so far!! thanks
March 24th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Will this successfully backup my HD if it is using a EFI partition to boot plus HSF+ for OSX and NTFS for Win 7?
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:23 am
Sephira,
Clonezilla works by doing a sector by sector copy of the hard drive or partition. It does not care what is the underlying filesystem. It would copy any filesystem including HSF+ for OSX and NTFS for Windows and all others…
April 12th, 2010 at 5:49 am
Hi i cloned my hard drive with clonezilla direct clone. on removing the existing drive and placing the new drive in the PC its not completing boot, keeps looking for the former hard drive. what can i do?
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:41 pm
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May 25th, 2010 at 7:15 am
I successfully cloned a hard drive – local drive to local drive. However, when I tried to use the new drive, the user account prompts for a password. Any idea what password to use. I’m using clonezilla-live-1.2.5-17-i486
May 27th, 2010 at 3:21 am
Thanks !!!…very nice presentation, congratulations !
is possible send this image disk from a ‘clonezilla server’ to many clients ?
when the client boot with PXE, download the image from a SERVER ?
Thanks another time !
June 4th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Any chance the image can be restored on a second computer? I understand there would be certain incompatibilities with drivers, etc., but assuming the image was a base OS, could you use that image on a different machine? I would like to have a base image so that if any of my machines get a virus that I can’t clean, I can throw the image on, change the product ID, and activate Windows without having to format the drive, reinstall the OS, add any service packs that were released since I bought the OS disk, etc.
June 12th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
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June 27th, 2010 at 4:38 am
that great…how can i download it and watch again..
December 29th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Eu tenho um servidor com o FreeNAS e utilizo o CloneZilla para gerar imagens, porém quando a imagem é gerada somente pode ser restaurada pelo usuário q a criou. como posso alterar as permissões? é possível fazer isso quando estou gerando a imagem com o CloneZilla?
January 12th, 2011 at 8:28 am
its really amazing video thank u so much amjad…
January 29th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Hi first of all I would like to thank you for this great video.
I have some problems about clonezilla.
I’ve done it as you showed in the video for imaging my disk to another usb hard drive (1TB free space, my c drive I wanna to be cloned is 160 gb. But the problem is when cloning is in progress about 34 percent completed, there is an error occured like I/O Buffer problem so imaging is cut off unfortunately.
What could be the problem ? Interesting one is everytime problem seem at the same stage I mean 34 percentage. Is that means problem about harddrive not the clonezilla software ?
My best regards,
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