Questions tagged [clonezilla]
OpenSource clone system solution with unicasting and multicasting. Hosted at clonezilla.org.
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What would be the ideal solution to sync 2 offline systems?
we are in a special case where we have 2 Ubuntu offline servers in 2 DCs and should be kept offline when not used. When we need to use them, we power up one of them, do whatever we want physically via ...
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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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Duplicate LV names after cloning a disk with clonezilla
I have cloned my bare metal installation of Debian Bookworm on LVM to Proxmox VE. The cloning was done via Clonezilla (remote), disk to disk. The Disks were the same size but I'm unaware if I selected ...
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Clonezilla does not carry over user login configuration in Ubuntu 18.04
I have a machine with Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 installed. There is a single user and the user is set to login automatically without asking for password. I took device image with Clonezilla to restore the ...
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Clone Centos 7 installation - MBR to GPT
I want to clone a centos 7 installation (using LVM) from a 500GB drive (using MBR) to a new 6TB HDD.
I tried to use clonezilla to clone the the drives with no success.
fdisk -l output from ...
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CloneZilla syslinux.cfg works on yakkety but not on artful
I installed CloneZilla 20180329 amd64, the artful alternative version and tried to automate some settings via the ocs_prerun variables. Specifically I want to set the locale and keyboard layout, the ...
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How to copy Linux disk to a smaller flash drive
I have a virtual machine on my Windows 10 desktop (VMWare WS) running Debian 9 which needed 12 GB to install, I gave it 15 GB for safe measure. So it's effectively a 15 GB hard disk.
I need to make ...
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'Could not find filesystem /dev/root' after Clonezilla clone of redhat install to newer hardware'
I am cloning what appears to be a redhat 4 (possibly 5?)server to fairly newer hardware, as the original has a failing board. DBA would rather not reconfigure a new installation so they want me to ...
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Ubuntu Clonezilla (Server) Disk Image Import/Export
We are running a clonezilla server(s) and I need to copy off (export) the newest disk image folder to and import it onto another clonezilla server in another city.
I found the directory in the ubuntu ...
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Windows 2008 partition cloned from physical to VM won't boot
I'm trying to clone Windows Server 2008 from a physical 1TB HDD to a VM with smaller HDD (160GB) in proxmox (KVM). This can't be done with Clonzilla's disk-to-disk mode, so I resized the partition ...
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How can I create a bootable media image that provides automated recovery?
I have clients/employees who use company workstations and want to create a dedicated restore partition on the drive such that when they boot into it, it boots into an automated recovery sequence, and ...
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Using Clonezill/DRBL DHCP as main DHCP server
Right now in my department we are running a DHCP server on some older hardware that is looking like it might fail soon(ish) and is also running CentOS 4. We'd like to upgrade to a new DHCP server but ...
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Clonezilla from MBR to GPT partition
So i have a clonezilla image of a centos6.5 box. It is 32GB in size. I have restored this to many system, but they have all been small enough to still use MBR. So when restoring i just used the -k2 ...
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V2P - Using Clonezilla with VMware - but I have two virtual disks
Don't ask me why but I've been requested to V2P a VMware machine. I'm using Clonezilla and a couple tutorials online. But, my VM has two virtual disks (screenshot). Currently in the process, but if ...
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Clone a CentOS VM on IBM x3650M2 server using Clonezilla
First off very thanks to everyone for this portal.
What is am trying to do is to clone a CentOS virtual machine in VMware Workstation 10 to a physical hdd on an IBM System x3650 M2 (It's a 2U Rack ...
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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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SSD not being detected in boot order after restoring image into it with Clonezilla
I have been trying to create a golden image with the default settings and apps in Windows 11 to deploy throughout multiple PCs. After researching about it a lot I decided to create a Master in ...
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Is sysprep /shutdown sufficient in this case
In our environment, we manage college computer labs with 30-40 devices each. Our current workflow involves creating a Windows image on a physical machine, sysprepping the image with the /reboot switch,...
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How to clone a linux server that it fails , so in case of sometning goes wrong in the process of fixing it i still have the original hard drive?
My problem is that I have a hard drive having a linux server (It fails during booting up process) and some valuable files. ( tried almost all solutions on the internet but no luck)
Now I found a ...
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ERROR /init: /init: 1 cannot open /dev/root/: No such device or address after P2V
I have a problem with converting a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine. I'm using as VM host Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper V. Unfortunately I'm rather the Windows Guy and can't find a solution ...
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Can all docker volumes be into a partition and would it be good for backup -cloning- purposes? (ex:/var/lib/docker/volumes/ in /dev/sdb1 @fstab)
I'm thinking of migrating all our documents and spreadsheets infrastrucure from and old standalone samba server to one of those popular self-hosted solutions and I'm trying to do the best long-lasting ...
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boot clonzilla pxe doesn't try to up eth0
My server clonzilla work with lenovo M725s, but with the M720s it doesn't work.
When I boot in pxe the screen freeze and there's some error:
And it doesn't try to up eth0.
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Moving a domain controller to another disk
Considering whether or not to move my domain controller to another disk (SSD) or not as in looking at Resource Manager the disk I/O appears to be the bottleneck for performance.
In the research I'm ...
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Windows Server 2008r2 clonezilla image cannot boot with XenServer
I'm trying to do a P2V using clonezilla but the cloned image would not boot.
I have an IBM x3400 m3 machine running Windows Server 2008r2 as the OS. I'm turning the physical machine into a XenServer, ...
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Modify Clonezilla boot parameters on generated images/ISOs
I can take a Clonezilla-generated ISO and extract the contents, then manually edit the syslinux.cfg (and other .cfg's) to adjust the boot parameters after creating the ISO, then repackaging it up. ...
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Clonezilla partitions restoring
I have to clone a linux drive to a smaller destination disk. By default Clonezilla will not let me do this.
This is how things look like now:
Source system:
/dev/sda1 72G 10G 58G 15%...
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How do I create a bootable drive from a partition using Clonezilla?
I have a 500GB HDD with two partitions on it. A 40 GB OS partition (Windows Server 2008 R2), and a 420GB data partition.
I would like to split these partitions off to two physical drives. (A 120GB ...
