OpenSource clone system solution with unicasting and multicasting. Hosted at clonezilla.org.
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Generalize an image without using Sysprep?
Without using sysprep, is there another way to generalize an image for use with Clonezilla?
I created a sysprep image and forgot to add a few things. So when I tried to redo it, I get the failed to ...
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Why is Clonezilla faster than dd?
On my SSD imaging (Source and Destination are 2 SSDs) I get 12GBpm using CloneZilla while with dd I get only 5GBpm. What makes Clonezilla so much faster than dd?
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Boot Clonezilla with XenServer VM
I'm currently trying to move a RHEL based server to Citrix XenServer (5.6) VM.
My plan was to use Clonezilla LIVE CD, which i have had good suceess with to clone physical to physical before. So i ...
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Clonezilla and multiple Activation for Office 2010
We have a large desktop deployment (approximately 2000 PCs) coming and I'm in charge in structuring the best possible manner to have the PCs installed and staged before them out to multiple ...
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How to deploy same stack+configuration to multiple server?
Currently I have 2 VPSes, setup and configured almost exactly like this, with some other minor Nginx configurations. I did it all manually
I want to get few other VPSes and deploy the exact same ...
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Image of configurations, processes, and so on [closed]
I have configured my local (Ubuntu) Server in which I have all my services with their own configurations and files, now I want to copy all that to another machine.
What's the right method to do it? ...
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Clonezilla - restore to different partitiion size?
I am using PartedMagic on a liveCD, and specifically am using Clonezilla to mirror a partition so that it can be restored to another drive.
However, the drive I am attempting to restore to is smaller ...
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Cloning bitmap free count err on proxmox drive
I have a small business server (custome build) that runs proxmox for virtualizing common office services (samba, AD, web server, etc).
I use clonezilla for all my cloning purposes and have never ...
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Opensuse and Clonezilla: Cloned hard drive won't boot
Recently I used Clonezilla cloned one hard drive which I installed Opensuse 12.2, include all partitions. When I tried to restore it on another machine (with very similar hardware and same model of ...
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Multi port clonezilla server
I am doing cloning of multiple computers - all of which are different.
Therefore I can't do multicast - bummer :(
However I can put multiple ethernets into the "server" (more like desktop) so can ...
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Using clonezilla to move data to a smaller disk on vmware
I have a guest ubuntu server with a 500gb hd running on vmware esxi 5.0. I want to shrink the disk, my plan is to use clonezilla to move the files to a smaller disk, boot from that disk and then ...
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Clone a Red Hat RAID as part of a disaster recovery plan
I am looking for recommendations to clone a Red Hat mirrored raid to a single hard drive located in the same machine. The idea is if the servers hardware ever has an issue we have a similar hardware ...
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Migrating CentOS on a 2950 to 16 Core 64GB R900
So I have a CentOS webserver running on a 2950. I assumed for sure that it was 64 bit, but according to uname it seems to be i686:
[root@www ~]# uname -a
Linux www.xxxxx.com 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5PAE ...
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How to connect to WPA2 encrypted wireless-network when booted from CloneZilla Live-CD?
My intent is to perform a backup of my laptop's (Dell Vostro 3350) sda1 disk to my desktop. After some googling I decided to use CloneZilla for that purpose. I have an OpenSSH server installed and ...
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Restored Windows partition with Clonezilla won't boot
I don't know if this type of question belongs to ServerFault or SuperUser.
If I mess with the source partition (eg. deleting and recreating a bigger partition) where the OS was originally installed, ...
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Successfully reduced LVM partition in CentOS, but other programs still see it as it's original size?
I'm trying to restore a clonezilla image of a server that had a total disk size of 1TB, however the server I need to restore to only has 400GB of space available. I figured by reducing the mounted ...
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How to setup WIndows 2008 as a NFS server for clonezilla
This sounded like an easy task to me, use clonezilla to image a laptop to a windows 2008 R2 NFS server.
I got the clonezilla Live CD to boot on the Laptop. I got into the command line. I was able ...
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Clonezilla using dd on Fedora 16 LVM
I'm trying to do a disk to disk clone of a 500GB Fedora 16 installation using Clonezilla, but it keeps using dd to copy the root ext4 LVM, and is doing so very slowly (~375MB/minute, 24hrs total copy ...
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Using clonezilla - how long should it take?
So I've just setup a brand new box and thought it would be a good time to make an image with Clonezilla.
The harddrive is 250GB with ~4GB used on the partition that I have chosen to backup, so I ...
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Clonezilla Freezes on PXE boot image restore
I'm just wondering if anybody hads ever hit this problem.
I'm usng DRBL Clonezilla on Centos 6. When I go to image the lab it boots the os from the server via PXE boot and everything seems to be ...
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Alternative to PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini, possibly via USB?
Are there any decent ways to accomplish PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini (Core i5)? I need to be able to boot into CloneZilla over the network (as I want to image the Mac Mini's hard drive, and ...
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What's the best way to clone multiple PCs from one machine?
Where I work we have dozens and dozens of old ThinkPad laptops. A lot of these can be reused but not for our needs. They have been long since replaced. The higher-ups have decided to donate them to ...
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Image a Windows PC using Linux
I want to create a bootable USB disk (like Clonezilla) and create images which are saved as GHO/GHS
I also want to restore images back to the PC and do the following tasks (if possible)
Rename the ...
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Cloning a two partition HDD onto a smaller HDD and maintaining MBR
I have a hard disk(A) containing two partitions - A1 is a NTFS partition containing a windows OS, and A2 is an NTFS partition containing data. I want to copy both of these partitions onto a different, ...
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Clonezilla from Command Line
I wan to use Clonezilla to Copy an Entire Disk to another Server. As the Source Disk resides on a Server, I do not have Access to the server to use a Live-CD. I will therefore have to use the command ...
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Why do I get an error using unsquashfs with Clonezilla?
I am set forth on an adventure to recompile Clonezilla to add a proprietary driver. In any case, following the instructions here: unsquashfs ala Clonezilla
In step 4, sudo unsquashfs ...
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Full Disk Imaging when machine is running
I am looking for a disk imaging solution that can run in background when my machine is up and running (e.g. via cron). I am using an Ubuntu machine.
In the past I have used Clonezilla for periodic ...
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What is the best/easiest way to change the RAID configuration of a Windows Server and Restore it to its last working configuration with more space?
I have a Dell Server with 6 1TB Drives in it. Currently the drives are configured into two RAID groups:
Existing
Group 1: 2 x 1TB in RAID 1 (1TB Usable) C: Drive (Windows 2008 r2 Boot Partition ...
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Creating or exporting an image of an LVM filesystem that is portable.
There is an important machine in my department which must be backed up. It uses lvm2 to span its various partitions over two 80G PATA hard drives (lvm tools output: http://pastebin.com/Wh3h9PVz). I ...
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DRBL: Clonezilla won't start (the PXE boot menu command only makes some flicker)
I have a Ubuntu 11.04 (amd64) PC with DRBL server on it. I set it to provide Clonezilla in partition restore mode. Client PCs do boot in PXE and DRBL menu is shown but the Clonezilla menu item won't ...
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What are the implications of GPT when attempting image-based deployment for workstations?
I've got 13 machines with identical hardware that I need to deploy. The machines all have the new UEFI standard, which apparently forces GPT regardless of disk size. I've thus far been unsuccessful in ...
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Ubuntu Server 10.04 64 bit Clonezilla image shows grub menu at startup
I've successfully cloned an entire disk of one server using Clonezilla live. The only problem is after cloning, the grub menu displays on boot. Grub menu settings are carried over from the cloned ...
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CloneZilla PXE Boot Without NFS
I am trying to setup CloneZilla to be bootable via PXE without using NFS. I do not have NFS running on our PXE server and would like to keep it that way. However, most of the information that I have ...
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Clonezilla-SE with another DHCP Server in LAN
I want to install Clonezilla-Server(192.168.1.100) in a network that already have a DHCP Server (dd-wrt with dnsmasq - 192.168.1.1).
I've installed Clonezilla-SE on ubuntu Server 10.10, once installed ...
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Ghost/Acronis/Clonezilla Live Image Creation (Without Rebooting)
I know Ghost and Clonezilla aren't able to build images of a system while the system is running(Without Rebooting). Haven't Checked on Acronis though, but i don't simpatize with private solutions.
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Looking to replace Ghost with FSArchiver or Clonezilla, few questions about capabilities
I work for a PC Repair company and we are looking into setting up a dedicated machine with externally accessible SATA bays to clone harddrives as a safety net incase something goes wrong during a ...
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Script to automate clonezilla to create a bootable image on USB
We are using Clonezilla with its Debian based OS and want to make a bootable image on a USB. All PCs are exactly identical, the hard drive is sda1. The PC runs under Windows XP and has about 4GB of ...
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clone for Hp-UX?
we have HP-UX installed on HP Itanium hardware. As per HP hp-ux will not run on intel board. and vmware also not supporting hp-ux as guest OS.
Is there any way to clone the hp-ux and it will run on ...
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Disaster recovery options for my lone server running W2K3 std
What is the best disaster recovery option for my machine running W2K3 std edition? I have already imaged my machine using Clonezilla and I have also taken a backup using Windows Automated System ...
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Using Clonezilla Server Edition with multiple multicast restore operations
I run a computer refurbishing operation for a local non-profit I am a part of. I have been looking into using Clonezilla to do network-based image-restoration. I am very interested in the multicast ...
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Store Live CD's on HD and Boot from GRUB
I use "Clonezilla" and the "SystemRescueCD" on a lot of servers and I was wondering if there' s a way to copy the ISO files (from the above tools) into a partition (e.g in every server) and modify ...
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Extracting files from CloneZilla images
Is there a way to browse CloneZilla images and extract individual files from them without restoring the whole image?
