To all of you "what does this do over dd?" bros: you clearly didn't watch until the end where I say "nice" as the screen shows Clonezilla doing more than dd. I almost made a "but Veronica, can't I just use dd?" bit in the video, but I didn't think I'd have to. Sigh
Speaking of which, most of the time dd will be used when Clonezilla detects a tiny Microsoft-reserved partition at the beginning of the disk (mostly with recent versions of Windows installed on the drive that is being saved). It may prompt you about it (speaking from the experience of using it many times to back up the boot drive), but you can safely ignore it since the said partition is saved as a raw image.
@@987computer DD(1) User Commands NAME dd - convert and copy a file "The primary purpose of which is to convert and copy files" It's not a backup tool at all, just saying :)
Thank you for another video cutting through the noise and just telling us “how to do it.” I’m cloning my laptop to an ISO right now so I have a backup.
Great video, Veronica! Thank you very much. I once cloned a drive to another with smaller size using the parameter -r included in the expert mode of Clonezilla. Sorry for my english. Greetings!
I just did a big PC upgrade for a friend of mine and it blew his mind that everything on the new PC was exactly as he left it. Clonezilla always makes the process incredibly simple and quick. A lot of non-technical users just assume that something like this isn't possible.
There was a time when cloning Windows would not always work so well so I can see why he was surprised it worked. He was probably expecting to have couple messed up drivers and to have to reactivate Windows.
I like how you pick more basic tools to not bog down the video with "you could also do this x y or z way" I havent used clonezilla in a long time, this was a nice refresher. I briefly used Acronis for work (because the boss said so) until I set up a FOG Project server and migrated our images into it (waaaay beyond the scope for your videos). Home stuff I'm too lazy to keep an ISO around and dd into gzip from whatever live iso i have in the moment for image backups.
Yup, that's a great way to do it. Clonezilla is great as a user-friendlier wizard option and that's a reason I've always recommended it, and fallen back on it myself. The server options are fun too because you can do simultaneous imaging.
"That's a bossy video." Been using Linux for over 20 years and always resorting to dd. How come I never stumbled into Clonezilla until now. Another tool for the kit. "Nice". 🙂
I knew there was something special about this channel when you made the short wave video… Now this is become one of my favorite channels… as usual, great content, fantastic host❤
Great video! I've played with Clonezilla, but found it more techincally complex than I thought necessary for home users. I've heard Rescuezilla is more user-friendly, and I think it's from the same programmer. But it uses an odd disk format which some computers won't recognize. Still, Veronica does make Clonezilla seem a lot more usable for us less-technical users.
Clonezilla has been my total backup solution for years. It's about the only way to image a drive with multiple operating systems. Or get data into a lifeboat as a drive crumbles to dust. And it's free!
This is a great video, and weirdly timely for me. I need to move my TrueNAS boot disk from its current disk to a new disk, and was just about to go through clean installing TrueNAS on a new disk and reloading my configuration and reimporting my storage pool. I was dreading that entire process--it seems rather error prone, and I too am rather error prone. Not a great combination. I've been putting it off for at least two weeks. I'd completely forgotten Clonezilla existed, and just being able to boot into it and clone my TrueNAS boot disk to a new home already feels like magic, and I haven't even done it yet. Thanks so much!
I love Clonezilla! We use it all the time at work, added it to our pxe sever, so it's super easy to deploy, and save images to an nfs share. Thanks for sharing one of my favorite tools?
I used Clonezilla exactly twice in the past to clone two completely different Windows laptops onto larger drives and it worked like a champ both times. I expect I'll need to use it within the next couple of days to clone another Windows drive but this one (an M.2 SSD) almost certainly needs to have its MBR fixed first, and this video showed up in my feed at just the right time to refresh me on using Clonezilla, thanks! :)
[At some risk of sounding like one of the "what does this do over dd?" bros; hopefully I won't by the end...] While at least _most_ of _my_ current needs are something where _I_ am happy to use the familiar-to-me dd to get things done, I'm grateful to you for creating this, so that I (and others!) can know about other options that are out there, that may fit others' needs and/or _my own future needs_ (some even anticipated currently!) better. Thanks!
If you want to do everything by hand with 'dd' you certainly can but a tool like this can save time and heartache if you fail to do one of the manual steps to create/restore an image. There's also 'ddrescue' which does 'dd' type stuff but again handles stuff automatically that you'd otherwise have to do manually and can save a lot of time when trying to save data from a dying drive. Choose the right tool for the job.
@@dingokidneys well, most of my uses for dd have nothing to do with a dying drive... and typing a command when I know its options/argument structure/whatever is a whole lot quicker than navigating a set of menus, even if I know them, too. If I have to start looking up options, then that changes things, of course... but you'll also note that I was giving emphasis to _my_ use cases, and at the current time, so... yeah. Different problems, different tools. I'm glad to add this tool to my to-try list.
That's a bossy video. Big fan of Clonezilla! We used it all the time when I worked for my university deploying Optiplexes. Thank you for the video highlights!
I really love when content creators make videos without annoying background music. I know everything you mentioned in this video, but I'm still watching carefully. Your way of explaining, and the speech is like a great teacher. ❤ From INDIA. Keep posting. Subscribed with bell 🔔 icon.
Thank you! I know that a lot of us use background music to smooth out audio issues and I get it, but I also know that a lot of viewers don't love it. Trying to keep a balance and keep the music to specific sections. :)
Clonezilla works perfectly with Ventoy. I have a small thumbdrive with Ventoy installed with several different distros in it, each focusing on different things and I LOVE it! And what a bossy video! 😄
Another wonderfully concise video. And fantastic timing too. I'm in the process of setting my home server up again after *YEARS* and this is gonna be super helpful for transferring my current "good enough" SSD images to proper network SSDs better designed for my traffic needs.
Great video Veronica. I have used Clonezilla for years. It just reminded me of a Linux home server I need to clone for a back up or to restore to replacement hardware!!
Great Video Veronica. I imagine this is super helpful for distro hoppers to easily jump back to a distro they liked better with all the software and settings just the way they left it. :)
Oh, this looks way nicer than dd!! Whenever I wanted to install a new distro, for the couple years I was doing that as a teen, I always had to download the iso, change file extension to img (I don't know why this mattered since the binary inside was the same, but whatever - it would fail if I didn't), and then dd it over to the drive. But half the time I'd do something wrong and have to redo it. Or I'd forget to enable verbose output. Not to mention the fear inherent in triple quadruple quintuple checking the "if" and "of" fields weren't backwards, or that you didn't forget to specify a subdirectory. I love the compression too. I had a number of occasions back in the day where I used dd to backup a pal's disk, but it kept all the empty space too! So it was a whole ordeal to shrink an image which came from an 80GB drive (but only used 50GB of space) to put it onto a 60GB drive. Sorry perfect Unix god-wizards who never make a mistake, but this is _way_ more user-friendly. I use fish for my shell as well instead of sh - sue me. Disk Destroyer is dd's longtime nickname for a good reason.
Maybe you will run into some trouble. Physical2Virtual will work nice with Linux, but Windows below Windows 10 can be tricky. In your VM use IDE or SATA for the Harddisk for the first startup and you maybe have to try BIOS or UEFI mode. Good Luck!
Great explainer! I’ve used it for years, just commenting to get the algo going - not to brag. Clonezilla really is a gem, and your video brings it to many more users. My bragging never will… 😅
: ) LOL : "That's a bossy video". ! BEST explanation EVER as I have used Clonezilla for SIMPLE cones, BUT NO IDEA about Images etc ! I WILL do this onec I have a 'GOLDEN' Laptop SSD to use on others and Desktops etc. THANKS MUCH and ALL the BEST ! ! Cheers : )
This video couldn't be more timely for me. I am going to warranty repair my laptop soon and most likely they will just give me a new one. Ive been looking to solutions exactly like this!
These videos are great. I'm not a total Linux noob by any means, but I always learn something. Although I've always pronounced it "fuzz-tab". I'm probably just weird.
I love Clonezilla, especially when installing, or making changes to, an OS. I use it to create Rollback points on a separate partition. It has saved my bacon many times. That's a bossy video.
Thank you!!! I was looking for a way to backup my (late) dad's computer because he had a ton of family tree research documents on there- This should work perfectly!
Rescuezilla is easier to use, but Clonezilla can be burned onto a CD-R. This is especially helpful when copying an older computer that doesn't recognize USB devices (or even has a USB port). You'll just need to internally connect that 2nd drive to copy to before booting up.
Great video as usual. I would suggest you if you didn't already try, to get one of the IODD ST400 devices; as you can put a hard drive/SSD in it, and it can also emulate CD roms. I use it as portable library with images made with Clonezilla to restore hardware, and also as boot CD/DVD drive as it can mount ISO images and IMG files from floppy disks, making possible to boot things like W98 directly from USB :)
Yup, this is the way I'd do that! Just remember that if you're cloning to a VM your hypervisor might need to be set to mount the disk as a SATA instead of a VDA. In my experience that's a step that's easy to miss. It's typically fixable after the fact with some messing around with settings.
This is exactly the video I needed as I have a 2TB SSD coming today that I'll be cloning my old 256GB drive onto. Only question is, does Clonezilla have any options to resize partitions? If not, no big deal, resize2fs exists. Coupled with a 32GB RAM upgrade I got the other day, my ThinkPad X260 is becoming my ultimate machine (running Slackware ofc). Keep up the great videos! :)
4:30 is very important, and also worth noting that not all disks with the same advertised size are same down to thenlast byte. I bought a 500GB SSD to replace a 500GB SSD that was reporting SMART errors every boot in the BIOS (thanks, HP for that feature!), but as it was every so slightly smaller, it wouldn't clone. I had to use a different cloning tool that allowed me to resize partitions during the clone process to avoid issues (and then Windows BootMgr took a while to get working again after that, too)
@VirendraBG Can't remember specifically, but there was a GUI tool in Hiren's Boot CD PE (a fan-made successor project to the original Windows XP-based one, using Windows PE 10/11 rather than Windows XP) that let me resize the partition as I cloned it (as long as there was free space to do so, of course)
That used to be a common issue but more recently there's an official standard for how many sectors are on a disk of "x" nominal gigabytes. SSDs are after that so they probably didn't implement the standard correctly.
I highly recommend using ssh to save the image to a remote system. Pretty much everything I use is running an ssh server, so it's a convenient way to dump a bare metal image to some available workstation storage. It's surprisingly quick despite the encryption.
Looks like clonezilla is already part of my SystemRescue ISO (which 💯 works with Ventoy), so I'll have to try it out as an alternative to GParted (which I think just wraps dd for this functionality) the next time I need to make or restore an image. Thanks for the lesson, Veronica!
The most useful thing I can comment is that if you use the "advanced" option when restoring the image it will let you "resize the partition table proportionally" and resize everything to fully use a larger destination disk. With basic mode your partitions will retain their original size which is not what most people want. For a less useful comment, Clonezilla fails when trying to clone APM-partitioned disks.
awesome vid, love that I discovered your channel! Trying to clone an encrypted boot disk to a large one... will the process be any different based on your experience?
Might have said this before: you speak very clearly. What with everyone now mumbling, I'd almost forgotten that proper enunciation and projection existed. My guess is drama training. Whatever, good stuff. Long live dot matrix printers... and daisy wheel printers too!
My favourite clone tool is also clonezilla. In the past I've had problems with UEFI secure boot on cloned disks: cloning an original disk that boots fine into LinuxMint with secure boot crates a disk that then only boots in legacy mode. The same failure has happened with Linux Mint, LMDE, and a Win10 system. My guess is that the secure boot database in the UEFI of some recent machines also logs info about the disk hardware. I'm not certain about that, and would welcome being told it's there's something i am missing.
I don't think I've run into any issues like that, but I should also note that I mainly use Clonezilla with Windows systems. Perhaps they had problems in older versions that have since been fixed.
I read your video description, and I refuse to call you bossy. Pedantic, yes, but what should I expect from a channel named "Veronica Explains"? 🤔I'll call it a boss video instead! 'm an IT consultant, mainly working with Windows and networking, very little Linux (although I have a couple of in-house machines on which I'm having some Linux fun, which is why I subscribed to your channel). I've used other imaging tools, mainly Acronis True Image and LSoft Active @ Boot Disk, for migrating systems to new hard disks or SSDs. I nearly always do that by making a full image backup of the source drive and restoring it to the new drive, because in my experience with both of those tools, that works almost 100% of the time. Their Clone Disk functions, which go directly from source to destination, have proven unreliable, especially if the destination drive is a different size from the source. In your experience, does CloneZilla clone directly from source to destination as reliably as it does image backup & restore?
I prefer Coffeezilla but I’ll give Clonezilla a chance! Also it could be because I just woke up, but her energy is just too much! What would I give for that amount of energy right now? Edit: it could just be me, but I’m getting Dave’s garage vibes! I’m telling you put videos side-by-side! I’m not complaining!
Really great video thank you just found the channel I hope you don't mind me asking. Is there anything you would recommend if you want to have a running backup of select files. Or another question is can you set up or have you made a video of running a RAID or similar setup.
Yes, clonezilla does work on Ventoy. I use it on workplace as well. Note, there is a GUI based similar (or use partcloner?) to clonezilla...called Rescuezilla. But it feels like a simplified version of clonezilla. At least it comes with gparted in the image that you can use it to create partition/resize/move it.
Years ago I used it to clone from a larger to smaller drive. I forget the exact process, was flying by the seat of my pants but I believe I shrunk the partition with Gparted then did a partition image and restored that to the new disk, then probably had to do startup repair (windows) and Gparted to resize it to fit the disk. I'm guessing you already know various methods, but thought I'd chime in. For those situations now I tend to just use acronis as it does it all in one step, but I prefer open source in general.
Thank you Veronica! Excellent video. I was looking into migrating my home Nextcloud instance running Ubunto Server from a physical machine to a Proxmox virtual environment. This way I can create snapshots/backups from it in case I need to restore. Thanks!
Great! Glad it was useful! One thing I did when I migrated Nextcloud boxes to VMs was to pass through a TrueNAS setup and host the storage that way. Then Nextcloud can connect to that storage, and I got the benefits of ZFS snapshot management with Nextcloud's ease-of-use. Win win!
My best friend for years. Ventoy loves it! I'm too lazy to figure out a more elegant way of encrypting my backups. Less lazy people can customise it to do all sorts of magic. The other thing that happens rarely is that I want the logs. You need to stay awake to do that.
Creating an image probably doesn't complicate things? When redeploying an image, you should try to match BIOS to BIOS and uEFI to uEFI. At least with some OSes. Linuxes are typically pretty flexible but GRUB might struggle in some configurations without some manual chrooting. IME it mostly "just works" nowadays.
To all of you "what does this do over dd?" bros: you clearly didn't watch until the end where I say "nice" as the screen shows Clonezilla doing more than dd.
I almost made a "but Veronica, can't I just use dd?" bit in the video, but I didn't think I'd have to.
Sigh
I'll just be clever once here: "tell me you didn't get to 14:32 without telling me you didn't get to 14:32"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
@@ATAG-yn5pd dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/remotes/by-domain/com/youtube
Speaking of which, most of the time dd will be used when Clonezilla detects a tiny Microsoft-reserved partition at the beginning of the disk (mostly with recent versions of Windows installed on the drive that is being saved).
It may prompt you about it (speaking from the experience of using it many times to back up the boot drive), but you can safely ignore it since the said partition is saved as a raw image.
@@987computer DD(1) User Commands
NAME
dd - convert and copy a file
"The primary purpose of which is to convert and copy files"
It's not a backup tool at all, just saying :)
Thank you for another video cutting through the noise and just telling us “how to do it.” I’m cloning my laptop to an ISO right now so I have a backup.
Well this is weird. I was looking up how to clone my Linux drive yesterday. Here you are delivering the content I need
Hopefully that's just a coincidence and not TH-cam spying on you!
Exactly the same here
Veronica just knows!
@@VeronicaExplains It's following us around in advance. :O
I’ve used clonezilla for almost 15 years. The tool that’s saved my butt more times than I can remember.
Great video, Veronica! Thank you very much. I once cloned a drive to another with smaller size using the parameter -r included in the expert mode of Clonezilla.
Sorry for my english.
Greetings!
Thank you! So glad Clonezilla was helpful!
I just did a big PC upgrade for a friend of mine and it blew his mind that everything on the new PC was exactly as he left it. Clonezilla always makes the process incredibly simple and quick. A lot of non-technical users just assume that something like this isn't possible.
There was a time when cloning Windows would not always work so well so I can see why he was surprised it worked. He was probably expecting to have couple messed up drivers and to have to reactivate Windows.
I like how you pick more basic tools to not bog down the video with "you could also do this x y or z way"
I havent used clonezilla in a long time, this was a nice refresher. I briefly used Acronis for work (because the boss said so) until I set up a FOG Project server and migrated our images into it (waaaay beyond the scope for your videos). Home stuff I'm too lazy to keep an ISO around and dd into gzip from whatever live iso i have in the moment for image backups.
Yup, that's a great way to do it. Clonezilla is great as a user-friendlier wizard option and that's a reason I've always recommended it, and fallen back on it myself. The server options are fun too because you can do simultaneous imaging.
"That's a bossy video." Been using Linux for over 20 years and always resorting to dd. How come I never stumbled into Clonezilla until now. Another tool for the kit. "Nice". 🙂
I knew there was something special about this channel when you made the short wave video… Now this is become one of my favorite channels… as usual, great content, fantastic host❤
Great video! I've played with Clonezilla, but found it more techincally complex than I thought necessary for home users. I've heard Rescuezilla is more user-friendly, and I think it's from the same programmer. But it uses an odd disk format which some computers won't recognize. Still, Veronica does make Clonezilla seem a lot more usable for us less-technical users.
AFAIK Rescuezilla is fully compatible with Clonezilla and I have used both interchangeably with success.
@@RogerioPereiradaSilva77 Rescuezilla is a larger thing, Clonezilla boots on systems that are more constrained.
Clonezilla has been my total backup solution for years. It's about the only way to image a drive with multiple operating systems. Or get data into a lifeboat as a drive crumbles to dust. And it's free!
Longtime Clonezilla user here, too.
1:09 that is the cutest little setup I have ever seen for a rescue setup. What a good idea!
This is a great video, and weirdly timely for me. I need to move my TrueNAS boot disk from its current disk to a new disk, and was just about to go through clean installing TrueNAS on a new disk and reloading my configuration and reimporting my storage pool.
I was dreading that entire process--it seems rather error prone, and I too am rather error prone. Not a great combination. I've been putting it off for at least two weeks.
I'd completely forgotten Clonezilla existed, and just being able to boot into it and clone my TrueNAS boot disk to a new home already feels like magic, and I haven't even done it yet.
Thanks so much!
I just bought two HDDs for this very purpose. Thank you Veronica
I love Clonezilla! We use it all the time at work, added it to our pxe sever, so it's super easy to deploy, and save images to an nfs share. Thanks for sharing one of my favorite tools?
Missed opportunity to not have the thumbnail be "Clone disks like a FOSS", but otherwise a great video from Veronica like usual.
I used Clonezilla exactly twice in the past to clone two completely different Windows laptops onto larger drives and it worked like a champ both times. I expect I'll need to use it within the next couple of days to clone another Windows drive but this one (an M.2 SSD) almost certainly needs to have its MBR fixed first, and this video showed up in my feed at just the right time to refresh me on using Clonezilla, thanks! :)
I could not live without Clonezilla.... It is awesome.
[At some risk of sounding like one of the "what does this do over dd?" bros; hopefully I won't by the end...] While at least _most_ of _my_ current needs are something where _I_ am happy to use the familiar-to-me dd to get things done, I'm grateful to you for creating this, so that I (and others!) can know about other options that are out there, that may fit others' needs and/or _my own future needs_ (some even anticipated currently!) better. Thanks!
If you want to do everything by hand with 'dd' you certainly can but a tool like this can save time and heartache if you fail to do one of the manual steps to create/restore an image. There's also 'ddrescue' which does 'dd' type stuff but again handles stuff automatically that you'd otherwise have to do manually and can save a lot of time when trying to save data from a dying drive. Choose the right tool for the job.
@@dingokidneys well, most of my uses for dd have nothing to do with a dying drive... and typing a command when I know its options/argument structure/whatever is a whole lot quicker than navigating a set of menus, even if I know them, too. If I have to start looking up options, then that changes things, of course... but you'll also note that I was giving emphasis to _my_ use cases, and at the current time, so... yeah. Different problems, different tools. I'm glad to add this tool to my to-try list.
That's a bossy video :). Been using clonezilla for over ten years. Awesome tool!!
That’s a bossy video.
Have used Clonezilla in the enterprise for quite a while. Always been a great tool for me.
When you are a boss.... :)
Clonezilla wasn't on my radar, but I see that it should be in my toolbox. Thanks for the video.
That's a bossy video.
Big fan of Clonezilla! We used it all the time when I worked for my university deploying Optiplexes. Thank you for the video highlights!
I really love when content creators make videos without annoying background music.
I know everything you mentioned in this video, but I'm still watching carefully. Your way of explaining, and the speech is like a great teacher.
❤ From INDIA.
Keep posting.
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I agree with everything you said. Greetings from Australia.
Thank you! I know that a lot of us use background music to smooth out audio issues and I get it, but I also know that a lot of viewers don't love it. Trying to keep a balance and keep the music to specific sections. :)
REscuezilla is even more friendly and there is foxclone too !
Yeah but RescueZilla is more resource intense.
Clonezilla works perfectly with Ventoy. I have a small thumbdrive with Ventoy installed with several different distros in it, each focusing on different things and I LOVE it!
And what a bossy video! 😄
We use this at work all the time, cloning many PC's over network from an image(s). Super easy - thanks for the vid!
I just love how you explain things always smilling
Another wonderfully concise video. And fantastic timing too. I'm in the process of setting my home server up again after *YEARS* and this is gonna be super helpful for transferring my current "good enough" SSD images to proper network SSDs better designed for my traffic needs.
Great video Veronica. I have used Clonezilla for years. It just reminded me of a Linux home server I need to clone for a back up or to restore to replacement hardware!!
Doing the lord's work here Veronica. Keep up the great content!
Great Video Veronica. I imagine this is super helpful for distro hoppers to easily jump back to a distro they liked better with all the software and settings just the way they left it. :)
Oh, this looks way nicer than dd!!
Whenever I wanted to install a new distro, for the couple years I was doing that as a teen, I always had to download the iso, change file extension to img (I don't know why this mattered since the binary inside was the same, but whatever - it would fail if I didn't), and then dd it over to the drive.
But half the time I'd do something wrong and have to redo it. Or I'd forget to enable verbose output. Not to mention the fear inherent in triple quadruple quintuple checking the "if" and "of" fields weren't backwards, or that you didn't forget to specify a subdirectory.
I love the compression too. I had a number of occasions back in the day where I used dd to backup a pal's disk, but it kept all the empty space too! So it was a whole ordeal to shrink an image which came from an 80GB drive (but only used 50GB of space) to put it onto a 60GB drive.
Sorry perfect Unix god-wizards who never make a mistake, but this is _way_ more user-friendly. I use fish for my shell as well instead of sh - sue me. Disk Destroyer is dd's longtime nickname for a good reason.
For your information it does work very well with Ventoy. It allows you to also have several of the recovery images for doing system stuff.
Goodness, it's been 17 years for Clonezilla?
Yup! Give me a second, I need to take a stretch break and a multivitamin. 👵🏻
@@VeronicaExplains As I reach for my ibuprofen... lol
@@VeronicaExplainsGirl!
Gonna nerd so hard with clonezilla when I get home. I can’t believe I never considered this for converting a desktop PC into a VM. The shame.
Maybe you will run into some trouble. Physical2Virtual will work nice with Linux, but Windows below Windows 10 can be tricky. In your VM use IDE or SATA for the Harddisk for the first startup and you maybe have to try BIOS or UEFI mode. Good Luck!
@ excellent info. I thank you.
Great explainer!
I’ve used it for years, just commenting to get the algo going - not to brag. Clonezilla really is a gem, and your video brings it to many more users. My bragging never will… 😅
Hi Veronica, thanks for all your fantastic work on YT and beyond!
was just looking into this and then I saw the notification. perfect timing!
: ) LOL : "That's a bossy video". ! BEST explanation EVER as I have used Clonezilla for SIMPLE cones, BUT NO IDEA about Images etc ! I WILL do this onec I have a 'GOLDEN' Laptop SSD to use on others and Desktops etc. THANKS MUCH and ALL the BEST ! ! Cheers : )
That's a bossy video
A real person, with real narration
We true OG's remember when Norton Ghost was a thing.
Also, gotta love that Redhat 6.2 Blue/Red colors in a UI.
This video couldn't be more timely for me. I am going to warranty repair my laptop soon and most likely they will just give me a new one. Ive been looking to solutions exactly like this!
These videos are great. I'm not a total Linux noob by any means, but I always learn something. Although I've always pronounced it "fuzz-tab". I'm probably just weird.
"fuzz tab" is a new one, I like it!
I love Clonezilla, especially when installing, or making changes to, an OS. I use it to create Rollback points on a separate partition. It has saved my bacon many times. That's a bossy video.
Thank you!!! I was looking for a way to backup my (late) dad's computer because he had a ton of family tree research documents on there- This should work perfectly!
Was thinking of reaching for CloneZilla yesterday, then this drops.... a sign from the heavens, by which I mean a sign from Veronica Explains!
would love a write up on how to make individual partition cloning. great video
Rescuezilla is easier to use, but Clonezilla can be burned onto a CD-R. This is especially helpful when copying an older computer that doesn't recognize USB devices (or even has a USB port). You'll just need to internally connect that 2nd drive to copy to before booting up.
Great info, one of the best IT channels out there…
Great video as usual. I would suggest you if you didn't already try, to get one of the IODD ST400 devices; as you can put a hard drive/SSD in it, and it can also emulate CD roms. I use it as portable library with images made with Clonezilla to restore hardware, and also as boot CD/DVD drive as it can mount ISO images and IMG files from floppy disks, making possible to boot things like W98 directly from USB :)
Great vid as always.. and embossed labels always make me happy... LOL
That's a bossy video!
Hi I'm from Brazil I really like your videos, this about clonezilla was amazing, thank you.
I love clonezilla, I miss Norton Ghost.
Have you tried Acronis True Image 2025? There is a non subscription version. But Clonezilla does the job for free.
Perfect timing. Trying to clone my laptop to a VM so I can mess around with a new distro.
Yup, this is the way I'd do that! Just remember that if you're cloning to a VM your hypervisor might need to be set to mount the disk as a SATA instead of a VDA. In my experience that's a step that's easy to miss. It's typically fixable after the fact with some messing around with settings.
the most usefull linux channel, by far! We wanna see it!
I'm happy you made this I definitely will be needing to use something like this in the future. That's a bossy video.
That's a bossy video!
Indeed it is!
This is exactly the video I needed as I have a 2TB SSD coming today that I'll be cloning my old 256GB drive onto. Only question is, does Clonezilla have any options to resize partitions? If not, no big deal, resize2fs exists. Coupled with a 32GB RAM upgrade I got the other day, my ThinkPad X260 is becoming my ultimate machine (running Slackware ofc).
Keep up the great videos! :)
Adorable video. Maybe it's weird, I know, but this is useful for me to learn the difference from an ISO and an IMG image.
4:30 is very important, and also worth noting that not all disks with the same advertised size are same down to thenlast byte. I bought a 500GB SSD to replace a 500GB SSD that was reporting SMART errors every boot in the BIOS (thanks, HP for that feature!), but as it was every so slightly smaller, it wouldn't clone. I had to use a different cloning tool that allowed me to resize partitions during the clone process to avoid issues (and then Windows BootMgr took a while to get working again after that, too)
Which alternative tool do you have used to modify partitions?
@VirendraBG Can't remember specifically, but there was a GUI tool in Hiren's Boot CD PE (a fan-made successor project to the original Windows XP-based one, using Windows PE 10/11 rather than Windows XP) that let me resize the partition as I cloned it (as long as there was free space to do so, of course)
That used to be a common issue but more recently there's an official standard for how many sectors are on a disk of "x" nominal gigabytes. SSDs are after that so they probably didn't implement the standard correctly.
I highly recommend using ssh to save the image to a remote system. Pretty much everything I use is running an ssh server, so it's a convenient way to dump a bare metal image to some available workstation storage. It's surprisingly quick despite the encryption.
As always, this was very helpful. Thank you.
I'll happily be your engagement plant to farm: That's a bossy video!
My go to cloning tool since it came. Also, coming from a retired teacher, nice job!
i have used clonezilla to set up my colleagues thinkpads as an IT intern. good times
Looks like clonezilla is already part of my SystemRescue ISO (which 💯 works with Ventoy), so I'll have to try it out as an alternative to GParted (which I think just wraps dd for this functionality) the next time I need to make or restore an image. Thanks for the lesson, Veronica!
Thanks for the tut ! I had never thought to restore to a vm !! way cool. Thanks again :)
The most useful thing I can comment is that if you use the "advanced" option when restoring the image it will let you "resize the partition table proportionally" and resize everything to fully use a larger destination disk. With basic mode your partitions will retain their original size which is not what most people want.
For a less useful comment, Clonezilla fails when trying to clone APM-partitioned disks.
I would love to hear more about these kinds of applications you used at work and what you did
I would love to see the server version and network storing.
Same.
I would too!
awesome vid, love that I discovered your channel! Trying to clone an encrypted boot disk to a large one... will the process be any different based on your experience?
That's a bossy video :-) Thanks Veronica!
Another tool for cloning disks and partitions beside dd. Cool!
Yup! And this one can chroot into your cloned device to help it boot, which is very neat!
Very informative and well explained, nice video as always. I'm sure it will come handy in the future
2:21 That's such a great idea to clone old systems to a VM for preservation.
Might have said this before: you speak very clearly. What with everyone now mumbling, I'd almost forgotten that proper enunciation and projection existed. My guess is drama training. Whatever, good stuff.
Long live dot matrix printers... and daisy wheel printers too!
Yup, drama training might be to blame. Spent a good amount of time on stage! I appreciate the complement!
Amazing timing, I need to clone my gaming machine's OS this weekend
I always like seeing enterprise level features being demoed. Much cheaper than paying for it myself.
Thank you for a video which is both informative and "bossy" :-)
My favourite clone tool is also clonezilla.
In the past I've had problems with UEFI secure boot on cloned disks: cloning an original disk that boots fine into LinuxMint with secure boot crates a disk that then only boots in legacy mode.
The same failure has happened with Linux Mint, LMDE, and a Win10 system. My guess is that the secure boot database in the UEFI of some recent machines also logs info about the disk hardware.
I'm not certain about that, and would welcome being told it's there's something i am missing.
I don't think I've run into any issues like that, but I should also note that I mainly use Clonezilla with Windows systems. Perhaps they had problems in older versions that have since been fixed.
Looks like you have a Commodore 128, behind you. My favorite 8-bit computer :-)
Veronica: Mentions Windows.
Windows: Immediate BSOD.
Too bad you didn’t ask if we wanted to see the server, because I would.
I read your video description, and I refuse to call you bossy. Pedantic, yes, but what should I expect from a channel named "Veronica Explains"? 🤔I'll call it a boss video instead!
'm an IT consultant, mainly working with Windows and networking, very little Linux (although I have a couple of in-house machines on which I'm having some Linux fun, which is why I subscribed to your channel). I've used other imaging tools, mainly Acronis True Image and LSoft Active @ Boot Disk, for migrating systems to new hard disks or SSDs. I nearly always do that by making a full image backup of the source drive and restoring it to the new drive, because in my experience with both of those tools, that works almost 100% of the time. Their Clone Disk functions, which go directly from source to destination, have proven unreliable, especially if the destination drive is a different size from the source. In your experience, does CloneZilla clone directly from source to destination as reliably as it does image backup & restore?
Thanks for another excellent and informative video.
As always, thank God you exist.
I prefer Coffeezilla but I’ll give Clonezilla a chance! Also it could be because I just woke up, but her energy is just too much! What would I give for that amount of energy right now?
Edit: it could just be me, but I’m getting Dave’s garage vibes! I’m telling you put videos side-by-side! I’m not complaining!
Really great video thank you just found the channel I hope you don't mind me asking. Is there anything you would recommend if you want to have a running backup of select files. Or another question is can you set up or have you made a video of running a RAID or similar setup.
This should help a lot at my office. Thanks!
Yes, clonezilla does work on Ventoy. I use it on workplace as well.
Note, there is a GUI based similar (or use partcloner?) to clonezilla...called Rescuezilla. But it feels like a simplified version of clonezilla. At least it comes with gparted in the image that you can use it to create partition/resize/move it.
🤣 I definitely had a college professor that always called it “Eff-Stab”!!! So funny.
Another awesome video AS ALWAYS!!!!
Merci!!!
@@VeronicaExplainsDe rien!
Years ago I used it to clone from a larger to smaller drive. I forget the exact process, was flying by the seat of my pants but I believe I shrunk the partition with Gparted then did a partition image and restored that to the new disk, then probably had to do startup repair (windows) and Gparted to resize it to fit the disk. I'm guessing you already know various methods, but thought I'd chime in. For those situations now I tend to just use acronis as it does it all in one step, but I prefer open source in general.
Thank you Veronica! Excellent video. I was looking into migrating my home Nextcloud instance running Ubunto Server from a physical machine to a Proxmox virtual environment. This way I can create snapshots/backups from it in case I need to restore. Thanks!
Great! Glad it was useful! One thing I did when I migrated Nextcloud boxes to VMs was to pass through a TrueNAS setup and host the storage that way. Then Nextcloud can connect to that storage, and I got the benefits of ZFS snapshot management with Nextcloud's ease-of-use. Win win!
Thanks for tip! I will consider this method. Thanks again!
》Time travel... Partion Magic + Norton Ghost!
My best friend for years. Ventoy loves it!
I'm too lazy to figure out a more elegant way of encrypting my backups. Less lazy people can customise it to do all sorts of magic.
The other thing that happens rarely is that I want the logs. You need to stay awake to do that.
Of course we'd like to see that and thank you for the initial basic stuff too 😸🍻🎉
Rescuezilla também é uma ótima ferramenta para clones e reparos.
I would have liked to see a discussion involving uEFI, whether there are some 'Things you need to know' when cloning or creating an image.
Creating an image probably doesn't complicate things? When redeploying an image, you should try to match BIOS to BIOS and uEFI to uEFI. At least with some OSes. Linuxes are typically pretty flexible but GRUB might struggle in some configurations without some manual chrooting. IME it mostly "just works" nowadays.