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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Great video. Could you change the spellling of clonzilla to clonezilla so I can submit this to digg?
Thanks!
Thanks Shannon VanWagner. Correction made.
good one, I have tried with dual booting.. didnt worked to me….
Can you use Clonezilla to make image of a Windows Home Server?
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.
StorS,
You can create image of or clone anything. It does not matter what is on the hard drive.
Thank your for your answer amjad. I read that Acrois true image cant do WHS, so… Well, I will try with Clonezilla then. Thanks.
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.
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 ?
Dajoe,
I created the video with Wink. For more information checkout http://www.debugmode.com/wink/.
Leslie,
I used this ISO in the video clonezilla-live-1.2.2-26.iso dated Mon Jul 20 2009.
can’t i download this video for my tutorial????
Thanks….
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
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.
wow great tutorial!!! this is the best tutorial that i can find online so far!! thanks
Will this successfully backup my HD if it is using a EFI partition to boot plus HSF+ for OSX and NTFS for Win 7?
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…
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?
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
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 !
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.
that great…how can i download it and watch again..