Great, excellent video clip. As a non-native English speaker I appreciate this clearly spoken presentation. No annoying music, no boring details. Just facts I need. Thx
A small tip to follow this video: Clonezilla image is about 300MB (less for older versions), flash drives can be as big as 120GB (or more), and you don't really need separate drives to use Clonezilla. You do need separate partitions though. So after writing Clonezilla to flash drive, you can repartition the disk to reclaim the remaining space as another partition, that would allow you to select that partition on same disk as /home/partimag and have a bit less flash drives' juggling in the process.
You can also jut use Ventoy with the free space at the end to make your flashdrive multiboot. That way you can keep different linux distros / windows installers and clonezilla bootable on the same usb stick and make your usb stick multirole bootable drive with the spare storage partition.
Been through most backup/imaging solution out there since early 2000's. Ultimate tool for me turned out to be CloneZilla indeed. I've become long-term user, advocate and supporter. Glad to see the tool crawling out of geeky niche, and hitting mainstream finally.
This is exactly what Ive been looking for. Creating a family home Nas server, and I wanted to backup directly to the server. This is great. Thanks Chris!
Deja vu. I just went through all this about two weeks ago. The hard drive in my main desktop was failing. I used Clonezilla to make a carbon copy of the system drive to a new drive. Of course i also upgraded the drive to a larger size. Clonezilla handled it perfectly. Since I was cloning a failing drive, I opted to do the file system checks before and after the clone. All I can add is that if this 61 year old boomer can do it; So can you!
I use Clonezilla at work for making/restoring images of our CentOS surveillance systems. The best way that I found, to use recovery, was to make a live recovery ISO so you can run Clonezilla environment and have the image all on one USB drive. It's a couple step process but once you have the Live restore ISO, you can image it (Rufus, dd, etc.) to other USB drives later. We ship this Live restore USB with all of our systems so customers have a recovery option if something goes wrong. The key thing for doing this option is that you have to make sure the drive that you backup (sda, sdb, etc.) is the same on the machine that you are recovering. Best way that I found is to make sure the backup drive is sda (first disk, disable other drives in BIOS) and then on the recovery, just unplug/disable in BIOS all drives leaving the target disk as the only drive accessible (making it sda or the first drive). There are ways in Clonezilla to convert the partition name...but not fun. Just some food for thought if you want this all on one USB.
Agreed. Not the most intuitive thing to use but Clonezilla is the best way to save multiple bare metal setups of your PC. Thanks for taking time to clarify its use. Later Chris!!
Clonezilla isn't bad in a pinch. For FOSS and user friendly, I have been using RescueZilla. The next release will be able to backup to and restore from images created with Clonezilla. RescueZilla is based on an older project called Redo Backup & Restore which had been a dormant project for several years. It has recently been picked up again by (I believe) the original developer under the name Redo Rescue. Both projects are worth a look.
After using CloneZilla for many many years I switched to RescueZilla and I can say I will not go back, it's so much better and more feature complete, it makes CloneZilla look confusing and outdated as hell.
Lots of comments about cloning vs. rsync. Both have their special merits, but as tools they're not the same. Rsync is mainly for doing directory-based backups and it allows leaving out filetypes or directories you don't want backed up. This is what TimeShift is for and comparing it Clonezilla is just a misunderstanding of the purpose of CloneZilla. Cloning is a different operation, here's the way I've used it: from time to time I've had to re-install my sons PC with Windows. After booting for the first time M(es)S Windows and having installed all the required software, I made a full cloned image of the C:\ - drive. That way, eventually, when my son messed up his Win- installation with viruses and malware - oh, the joy of Flash-based browser games.. - I just root-canaled the hard drive by re-partitioning and restored it to its "native" state with Clonezilla. With all configurations and what-not. All other (safe) data can then be restored with rsync, if necessary. Repairing or trying to repair a f-ed up Windows system is just hopeless. Defrag, anyone?
Statistically, you should get this comment all the time. But the timing on this couldn't be better for me, as I was about to make a post on Manjaro forums about it. Cheers brother
I used Clonezilla several years ago to copy my Windows 7 Professional installation onto a bigger hard drive because I was running out of space and didn't feel like doing a complete re-install. Once I booted back into Windows 7 on the new hard drive, I was able to use the partition manager provided by Windows to expand the partition to fill the new hard drive. I used the device-to-device mode since I had both drives connected to the PC.
This is the best software for data backup and clone also it supports multicasting and unicasting (over network but required to setup Clonezilla Server SE and PXE boot from clients PC ). APFS not supported but Sector to sector backup will do the trick for newer Macs running macOS High Sierra (on SSD) or Later. Note: macOS High Sierra on mechanical hard drive uses HFS+ and sector to sector backup means clonezilla uses dd command in background regardless what the file system is. Just one more thing BootCamp will be backed up on all intel based mac and finally macrium reflect will do the same but it's not completely free and only available for windows so you need to use the the free edition of rescue image and boot from the mac then clone or backup the entire drive. Thank you for this video
It works. I tried it. I prefer using another paid product because I can do it without rebooting. If I was linux, it would be my #1 choice. Not to many people do this. I do it all the time. Upgrade from 7200 to 10000 rpm hard drive, no problem, to ssd, no problem, to NVME, kinda sketchy but works if you preload drivers that were deleted on the net or if you have a system that supports the newer technology. Thing is, there are other pci-e devices which work on any system or OS, but they are expensive and difficult to buy. What NVME misses is a BIOS Firmware layer which does the active translation. If they did this, you could plug it into anything and run without a driver. They don't want you to do that. Resizing is another issue. My cloning software can clone to smaller or larger storage devices on the fly intelligently.
Thanks Chris for this video! Another useful thing to know is that some live images of Linux distro (e.g. Arch Linux and Manjaro) also have gparted and clonezilla out of the box! So just live boot e.g. the Arch Linux ISO and execute clonezilla from there! Saved me a bit of trouble :)
Clonezilla is a great piece of software and quite reliable which is very important., i've been using it more than 10 years for all my system backups, no problems so far. Also system rescue image is a great tool if you want clonezilla, gparted, desktop enviroment , terminal , firefox all in one! Firefox comes handy for searching the net for solutions , forums, linux commands or just pass your time waiting for your backups to finish.
My company sells and uses Clonezilla (with Hardware, currently a HDD) with a special script for our CNC controls. But we made it easy enough for any user to do that. (it's literally like that: Do you want to restore or backup? Is it one of our controls or a PC? What's the file name of the backupfile? That's it.) Doing that without our version would be (obviously) possible, but kinda painful because you can't backup some partitions but need to backup multiple (yep, we have about 10 partitions in total). And before somebody asks, yes we give you the source code of the software we use (if the license mandates it) if you ask for it, that includes out modified Linux kernel.
Clonezilla has saved my ass several times, and helped me restoring a lot of computers to the state they should be before using them for edumacation. Great tool! And I don't mind the interface, that's how long I've been using it :-D
I have used it for a few years now. First just to back up our server and later I used it on Windoz. Its great takes the operating system and all. I have gotten mixed up once and wiped a drive I was trying to backup. Thank God I had other backups, BE CAREFUL. I never knew what the second option did so that will help me because the old eyes are not as good as they once were.
Hi! I have a separate boot and root partition, both encrypted, and the disk is gpt. Can clonezilla clone the entire disk including all the partitions, so that I can restore it to a drive of the same size or larger?
Greatest tool ever I set up a pxe-boot solution with clonezilla that lets a customer install a windows 11 syspreped image to any computer. No need to use MS bloated deploy stack this way.
Thanks Chris your videos are really informative. You speak the truth according to your knowledge & experience. Your channel is my go to resource for Backup solutions, NAS, personal desktop OS, pretty much everything.
Chris - can I suggest you do a video on Rescuezilla? It is a 2020 rewrite of the old Redo Rescue that is fully compatible with Clonezilla. The key point is that it has a GUI that is unambiguous and easy to follow. It also contains many useful utilities.
I know it's been awhile. I went device to device to clone a mechanical current system to an NvMe of the same size, and tried to boot off the NvMe and it won't boot. Is it because I still have the mechanical drive in the system that it's booting off of that or do I need to make the image and then restore it to transfer it to my Samsung NvMe M.2?
Two things, one is you can always create a disk image using gnome disk utility. Select the drive on the left side go to the top menu and select restore disk select your image and restore. Second item, most live ISO's include clonezilla and garted. I include them in my ISO.
I love clonezilla too. Thanks for the great video Chris. I would add that “(*) Rescue” mode is awesome too. If you have a degraded drive that a client brings you, in a system, that they insist they want you to try and mirror onto a new hard drive, it rocks. Don’t forget to back up user files first, before the clone. It’s disk load intensive on a degraded drive, and could cause the old drive to completely fail while on the bench. Then run an SFC once on the new drive to make sure the OS is in good shape.
For a degraded drive, I find *ddrescue* a great command line tool. E.g. when copying from a near-dead drive to an image, on a first pass it tries to read good parts only, skipping read errors. After it's done with a first pass, it goes on trying to read the skipped parts, splitting them into smaller and smaller chunks just to get as much data out as soon as possible.
Thanks, I agree 100% about Clonezilla. I have Clonezilla on a DVD & even though it slower to use than a flash drive, I can restore a small Windows image in well under 15 minutes.
Never underestimate the power of dd. Honestly - Chris - I like what you are doing (I love your videos) but I expected a more "superuser" approach. This is just clonezilla... =P
Great video Chris! Been keeping an eye out for an open source solution like this. Curious about the RAT though. Video about that? I have a few Linux and Windows machines that it'd be super useful to remote access. Looks almost exactly like how RMM modules function on some server boards.
Been using CZ at work for years. Recently Dell started changing their BIOS GUI and moving options around. Have you used CZ on a newer Dell Latitude, like a 7420 or newer?
Given this is just one open for cloning, can you do a video that takes a deeper dive into cloning that covers most of the options and suggests the best tools? I just spent a ton of time down that rabbit hole, so I can appreciate a better look at the subject. Thx
excellent walk through thank you for creating, a few questions . . . q1. any issues you foresee using this to move a vmware player [ or hyper-v ] windows 11/10 install to a physical machine install where the latter boots into clonezilla iso using usb boot stick? q2. does clonezilla iso support detection and enabling of intel SoC wifi adapters and/or realtek usb nano dongle adapters so that you can boot physical machine and receive clone over a wifi network vs using the to/from image approach? q3. any issues you foresee with the cloning of windows 11/10 from vmware player [ or hyper-v ] or different intel x86 isa 64-bit system, e.g. 8th gen i5 to 11th gen i7, setup to a new more current hardware setup?
Nice walk through. Clonezilla is great, but I wish it was more intuitive. It would be perfect if you could clone larger drives to smaller ones and automatically shrink the partition.
@Donald Mickunas You would think it would be possible. I often replace 1TB hdds with 250GB ssds. Most users use less than 100GB of data. I'm usually stuck with windows tools for this. I used to use ghost, but it doesn't work for gpt partitions.
Will siemens nxcad 11.0 run comfortably on windows 10 virtually installed( using oracle virtual box) on ubuntu 18.04lts ? ( i have only hdd of 1Tb only and i5 8th gen) plz reply, i'm beginner???
Hi Chris, thanks for the vid. Very helpful. I did have a question though. You mentioned in this video that you shrank your data down to ensure that the image created was not too large for the target drive. I have a situation where the usb image occasionaly is too large for the target drive. Can you describe how I can shrink the image down.
If we backup a windows system will it back up C + all other drives present or will it backup only the C drive? Also, when restoring back windows do we get an option to chose which drive the restore needs to go into? Thanks!
I have never been able to get CloneZilla to actually RECOVER a failed backup to a new drive. The replacement drive has to be the EXACT same size or larger than the original. Heck, even larger drives mostly fail recovery anyways. And forget "cloning" a 500GB to a 250SSD. Aint gonna happen. Even resizing partitions with GParted or the Windows disk management. Nope. diskgenius. has been my go to for a while now. The free version works great!
Great video! I'm trying to restore an image to an external drive through Virtualbox. However, the speed slows down to a halt and do not complete. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
What is the function in Acronis and Macrium called which allows you to automatically clone from a bigger drive/partition to a smaller drive/partition? I want something open source and bootable which has this function. Preferable with a cozy GUI
Tried DD clone MINT20 partition of a Grub multiboot drive, to a clean drive .. to enlarge the m20 from partition to whole drive. Made a partition 20g bigger than Source, DD it, then GPARTED to 'grow' partition to whole drive with auto-expand filesystem to match. Booted m19, filemanager mount & use new drive m20, Updategrub, reboot.. *it is in Grub Menu but trying to boot new actually boots old* Source m20 not new drive. Is this a UUID problem of old & new existing same time? ( havent poked at problem much yet, since Old partition is still working fine)
Hey Chris, love your videos. In fact, they've spurred me on to try out Fedora 36. I have it installed and configured - all good in that department. However, lol, why is there always an 'however' with computers? In windows I can easily create system images. Using clonezilla I was able to create system images of PopOS but I prefer Fedora. And clonezilla just doesn't seem to boot. The startup just rips past to the login. I checked on the clonezilla site and they have different downloads for debian / ubuntu distros. I've tried both and have been frustrated. A win 11 boot disk is recognized and boots fine but none of my clonezilla usbs work. This is on a Surface Go 2 M3. I've tried with secure boot off and on. I've been use the Fedora Media Writer proggie to create the live bootable USB. Any suggestions for me?
Hello Chris! Thanks for this video! How do you set up your prompt to show a preview of your command and underlining the sudo command while typing? (2:27) I like that a lot!
How do I shrink the source drive before starting? I want to transfer everything from my 1TB HDD to my 960GB SSD. But when I run Clonezilla it doesn't allow me to do disk to disk transfer because the source (1TB HDD) is bigger than the destination (960GB SSD) even though the real space that is used is about 500GB on the source disk, so I have plenty of space on my SSD. Any help would be appreciated!
Do you maybe have a video about mesh commander, or are thinking of making one? I've been looking for a while for some browser based remote desktop solution. Kind regards.
I really don't like Clonezilla as a "backup" tool, for Linux especially. rsync is far more suited for this kind of job. Cause when you backup you want to sync the data (i.e. write only the changes) but Clonezilla just images the drive which rewrites the whole thing and the backup is not really browsable. Now for cloning and imaging it's great.
As much as I love Clonezilla and I know it uses dd, I still find raw dd is sometimes the only tool that can successfully copy some non standard formats and layouts
QUESTION: If my laptop is dual boot, will Clonzilla clone everything (efi partition-fat32, recovery partition, basi data partition - nfts (windows), linux ext4 partition and the last ntfs recovery partition)? Meaning if colne back in the machine I could boot in Windows or linux?
would this be a good way to backup old external hard drives (not ones that have OS install. Just has data on it), or is there a different software I should use for this purpose. Also would it be possible to mount the image to your device to browse through the file system. I have some ancient harddrives that I want to backup incase the drives fail, but also want to look through the files on them. Can Clonezilla do a byte by bvte clone (for example if the file system on the drive is broken or is an obscure file system that isn't supported)
Hello, please a tip. I have a source HDD that is larger than the target SSD. But I have a large unallocated partition with 3 other small partitions on the source drive. Is it possible to choose and clone a partition and repeat the operation with 2 other partitions so that the target SSD drive is operational and full with 3 small partitions? By choosing the partition-partition cloning menu in beginner mode, this 3 times in a row .... simpler I think disk to disk expert mode. No ? thank you for your opinion
I recently had a failure with Clonezilla. I had a linux system which I backed up with Clonezilla and the Clonezilla image was stored on a new thumb-drive. Over the years I have never had a problem with Clonezilla - so it was my typical backup utility. However - at the time I made the Clonezilla backup I also performed a backup using Timeshift And the Timeshift backup data was stored on an external hard-drive. I was unable to restore the system using Clonezilla because at the step in which one is to insert the thumb drive which contains the backup image to be restored - Clonezilla was unable to recognize the thumb-drive when it was plugged into the PC. All other systems readily recognized that thumb-drive without a problem. But for some reason Clonezilla in that machine was unable to recognize it. So I was unsuccessful at recovering that machine using Clonezilla. Fortunately - the Timeshift backup worked flawlessly.
But, you haven't told us, what filesystem should the backup drive (where the image is stored) have? Any filesystem works? Also, I still don't understand what the step at 5:56 is doing. Could anyone please explain it?
Would this work for a dual-boot ( windows 10 & kubuntu 20.04) system? As in: if I follow this tutorial, would both the operating system be backed up and can be restored to a fully functioning dual-boot?
Thanks for the video Chris, but I am surprised that there isn't a "Noob Mode" that I would probably use 99% of the time, just to backup and restore image files... The whole process could have been made much simpler IMHO... I know I'll have to do it a dozen times (backup and restore) to be sure I understand before I touch real data...
4 Years ago I installed in my system a 500 mb nvme drive for a dual boot Manjaro-Windows. Now I just got a 1TB and I am wondering if reinstalling everything would be worth it since I have never had a problem. I know a clean install would be better but time consuming.
hey there chris im not sure who to ask but i have an issue after cloned a m.2 drive from a 3.0 to a 4.0 for some reason everytime i boot up my computer now after cloning my c drive it brings me to bios on power up and if dont do any changes to the bios and just save and exit it boots right up any ideas what i can do ... on the power up in the bios it doesnt even see the c drive until i exit the bios
Hello. I just want to fresh install win11 again then make a full backup, then install all my apps I use and make again a full backup. I want to keep this 2 backups and in case I want to restore it back to a fresh windows or a fresh windows+apps, I can do it without installing all over everything. Can Clonezilla do it? Or which Backup software to use to do it this way? Hope I was clear enough and you can help me. Thank you!
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Great, excellent video clip. As a non-native English speaker I appreciate this clearly spoken presentation. No annoying music, no boring details. Just facts I need. Thx
Chris’s tutorial videos are always great in that regard: always concise and easy to follow.
A small tip to follow this video: Clonezilla image is about 300MB (less for older versions), flash drives can be as big as 120GB (or more), and you don't really need separate drives to use Clonezilla. You do need separate partitions though. So after writing Clonezilla to flash drive, you can repartition the disk to reclaim the remaining space as another partition, that would allow you to select that partition on same disk as /home/partimag and have a bit less flash drives' juggling in the process.
You can also put it on the target disk and just run it to RAM and completely overwrite it while cloning the source disk to the target disk.
You can also jut use Ventoy with the free space at the end to make your flashdrive multiboot. That way you can keep different linux distros / windows installers and clonezilla bootable on the same usb stick and make your usb stick multirole bootable drive with the spare storage partition.
Been through most backup/imaging solution out there since early 2000's. Ultimate tool for me turned out to be CloneZilla indeed. I've become long-term user, advocate and supporter. Glad to see the tool crawling out of geeky niche, and hitting mainstream finally.
This video is 2 years old, I thought it was only 6 months... god.
Looking good Mr. Titus. The color of the polo is really popping.
This is exactly what Ive been looking for. Creating a family home Nas server, and I wanted to backup directly to the server. This is great. Thanks Chris!
Deja vu. I just went through all this about two weeks ago. The hard drive in my main desktop was failing. I used Clonezilla to make a carbon copy of the system drive to a new drive. Of course i also upgraded the drive to a larger size. Clonezilla handled it perfectly. Since I was cloning a failing drive, I opted to do the file system checks before and after the clone. All I can add is that if this 61 year old boomer can do it; So can you!
I use Clonezilla at work for making/restoring images of our CentOS surveillance systems. The best way that I found, to use recovery, was to make a live recovery ISO so you can run Clonezilla environment and have the image all on one USB drive. It's a couple step process but once you have the Live restore ISO, you can image it (Rufus, dd, etc.) to other USB drives later. We ship this Live restore USB with all of our systems so customers have a recovery option if something goes wrong. The key thing for doing this option is that you have to make sure the drive that you backup (sda, sdb, etc.) is the same on the machine that you are recovering. Best way that I found is to make sure the backup drive is sda (first disk, disable other drives in BIOS) and then on the recovery, just unplug/disable in BIOS all drives leaving the target disk as the only drive accessible (making it sda or the first drive). There are ways in Clonezilla to convert the partition name...but not fun. Just some food for thought if you want this all on one USB.
nice advice! thanks !... i will remove all disks,and same on restore :)
Agreed. Not the most intuitive thing to use but Clonezilla is the best way to save multiple bare metal setups of your PC. Thanks for taking time to clarify its use. Later Chris!!
I tried to snapshot my system with timeshift but thats not too useful if you have to restore a new file system with encryption.
Clonezilla isn't bad in a pinch. For FOSS and user friendly, I have been using RescueZilla. The next release will be able to backup to and restore from images created with Clonezilla.
RescueZilla is based on an older project called Redo Backup & Restore which had been a dormant project for several years. It has recently been picked up again by (I believe) the original developer under the name Redo Rescue. Both projects are worth a look.
After using CloneZilla for many many years I switched to RescueZilla and I can say I will not go back, it's so much better and more feature complete, it makes CloneZilla look confusing and outdated as hell.
This is exactly what I needed.. and the notification just showed up, what a coincidence! Thanks Chris! 👍
Lots of comments about cloning vs. rsync. Both have their special merits, but as tools they're not the same.
Rsync is mainly for doing directory-based backups and it allows leaving out filetypes or directories you don't want backed up. This is what TimeShift is for and comparing it Clonezilla is just a misunderstanding of the purpose of CloneZilla.
Cloning is a different operation, here's the way I've used it: from time to time I've had to re-install my sons PC with Windows. After booting for the first time M(es)S Windows and having installed all the required software, I made a full cloned image of the C:\ - drive. That way, eventually, when my son messed up his Win- installation with viruses and malware - oh, the joy of Flash-based browser games.. - I just root-canaled the hard drive by re-partitioning and restored it to its "native" state with Clonezilla. With all configurations and what-not. All other (safe) data can then be restored with rsync, if necessary.
Repairing or trying to repair a f-ed up Windows system is just hopeless. Defrag, anyone?
Statistically, you should get this comment all the time. But the timing on this couldn't be better for me, as I was about to make a post on Manjaro forums about it. Cheers brother
I've always found CZ a little daunting so thanks for making this - very helpful!
Super helpful video even two years later! Thanks for this Chris
I used Clonezilla several years ago to copy my Windows 7 Professional installation onto a bigger hard drive because I was running out of space and didn't feel like doing a complete re-install. Once I booted back into Windows 7 on the new hard drive, I was able to use the partition manager provided by Windows to expand the partition to fill the new hard drive. I used the device-to-device mode since I had both drives connected to the PC.
This is the best software for data backup and clone also it supports multicasting and unicasting (over network but required to setup Clonezilla Server SE and PXE boot from clients PC ). APFS not supported but Sector to sector backup will do the trick for newer Macs running macOS High Sierra (on SSD) or Later. Note: macOS High Sierra on mechanical hard drive uses HFS+ and sector to sector backup means clonezilla uses dd command in background regardless what the file system is. Just one more thing BootCamp will be backed up on all intel based mac and finally macrium reflect will do the same but it's not completely free and only available for windows so you need to use the the free edition of rescue image and boot from the mac then clone or backup the entire drive. Thank you for this video
It works. I tried it. I prefer using another paid product because I can do it without rebooting. If I was linux, it would be my #1 choice.
Not to many people do this. I do it all the time. Upgrade from 7200 to 10000 rpm hard drive, no problem, to ssd, no problem, to NVME, kinda sketchy but works if you preload drivers that were deleted on the net or if you have a system that supports the newer technology. Thing is, there are other pci-e devices which work on any system or OS, but they are expensive and difficult to buy. What NVME misses is a BIOS Firmware layer which does the active translation. If they did this, you could plug it into anything and run without a driver. They don't want you to do that.
Resizing is another issue. My cloning software can clone to smaller or larger storage devices on the fly intelligently.
Thanks Chris for this video! Another useful thing to know is that some live images of Linux distro (e.g. Arch Linux and Manjaro) also have gparted and clonezilla out of the box! So just live boot e.g. the Arch Linux ISO and execute clonezilla from there! Saved me a bit of trouble :)
Clonezilla is a great piece of software and quite reliable which is very important.,
i've been using it more than 10 years for all my system backups, no problems so far.
Also system rescue image is a great tool if you want clonezilla, gparted, desktop enviroment , terminal , firefox all in one! Firefox comes handy for searching the net for solutions , forums, linux commands or just pass your time waiting for your backups to finish.
My company sells and uses Clonezilla (with Hardware, currently a HDD) with a special script for our CNC controls.
But we made it easy enough for any user to do that. (it's literally like that: Do you want to restore or backup? Is it one of our controls or a PC? What's the file name of the backupfile? That's it.) Doing that without our version would be (obviously) possible, but kinda painful because you can't backup some partitions but need to backup multiple (yep, we have about 10 partitions in total).
And before somebody asks, yes we give you the source code of the software we use (if the license mandates it) if you ask for it, that includes out modified Linux kernel.
It’s a bit of a learning curve at first but it’s a very effective piece of software. I’ve used it multiple times
Clonezilla is FANTASTIC!!! Even backs up multi-boot systems..
Never had a problem. It just works, and it's Free...
Clonezilla has saved my ass several times, and helped me restoring a lot of computers to the state they should be before using them for edumacation. Great tool!
And I don't mind the interface, that's how long I've been using it :-D
I have used it for a few years now. First just to back up our server and later I used it on Windoz. Its great takes the operating system and all. I have gotten mixed up once and wiped a drive I was trying to backup. Thank God I had other backups, BE CAREFUL. I never knew what the second option did so that will help me because the old eyes are not as good as they once were.
Been using it for over a decade, better than ghost.
Same. It's a rock solid option. I find it's the best for backing up and restoring whole disks and images.
Hi! I have a separate boot and root partition, both encrypted, and the disk is gpt. Can clonezilla clone the entire disk including all the partitions, so that I can restore it to a drive of the same size or larger?
Greatest tool ever I set up a pxe-boot solution with clonezilla that lets a customer install a windows 11 syspreped image to any computer. No need to use MS bloated deploy stack this way.
Thanks Chris your videos are really informative. You speak the truth according to your knowledge & experience. Your channel is my go to resource for Backup solutions, NAS, personal desktop OS, pretty much everything.
As Taiwanese, so glad Titus made a video about it. I use clonezilla when I was a kid, it's a powerful tool.
Chris - can I suggest you do a video on Rescuezilla? It is a 2020 rewrite of the old Redo Rescue that is fully compatible with Clonezilla. The key point is that it has a GUI that is unambiguous and easy to follow. It also contains many useful utilities.
This has been a excellent video, Thank you for taking the time to make it and publish!
I know it's been awhile. I went device to device to clone a mechanical current system to an NvMe of the same size, and tried to boot off the NvMe and it won't boot. Is it because I still have the mechanical drive in the system that it's booting off of that or do I need to make the image and then restore it to transfer it to my Samsung NvMe M.2?
It my go to backup and mirroring software, you can put all your backups on a NAS. It easy to use mahn.
Two things, one is you can always create a disk image using gnome disk utility. Select the drive on the left side go to the top menu and select restore disk select your image and restore.
Second item, most live ISO's include clonezilla and garted. I include them in my ISO.
I used Clonezilla for about 5 years. Until I discovered Timeshift which is such a time saver.
I love clonezilla too. Thanks for the great video Chris.
I would add that “(*) Rescue” mode is awesome too. If you have a degraded drive that a client brings you, in a system, that they insist they want you to try and mirror onto a new hard drive, it rocks. Don’t forget to back up user files first, before the clone. It’s disk load intensive on a degraded drive, and could cause the old drive to completely fail while on the bench. Then run an SFC once on the new drive to make sure the OS is in good shape.
For a degraded drive, I find *ddrescue* a great command line tool.
E.g. when copying from a near-dead drive to an image, on a first pass it tries to read good parts only, skipping read errors. After it's done with a first pass, it goes on trying to read the skipped parts, splitting them into smaller and smaller chunks just to get as much data out as soon as possible.
Thanks, I agree 100% about Clonezilla. I have Clonezilla on a DVD & even though it slower to use than a flash drive, I can restore a small Windows image in well under 15 minutes.
Adding clonezilla and gparted to my ventoy usb was the way to go!
Clonezilla is awesome! A bit rough around the edges, but still a great tool nonetheless. I also like the Fog and DRBL projects as well.
Clonezilla is absolutly fantastic yah. Thank's for making this video
Clonezilla is great, but there are easier ways to do this.
Never underestimate the power of dd.
Honestly - Chris - I like what you are doing (I love your videos) but I expected a more "superuser" approach. This is just clonezilla... =P
And they are?
@@CpuWaiy he said dd
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I used to use dd to create boot floppies back in the day. :)
Clonezilla uses dd in the Graphic mode. Watch it and you will see dd being applied to the Drive.
Bro Chris you are awesome! I have been on the search for one as I need to ship out my pc for a replacement.
I just want to say this video was the best. Thank you very much for this video. It was just what I needed to clone my server C drive.
I'd honestly pay $10-20 if Clonzilla had a nice clean, easy to understand GUI. I'm really surprised nobody has created something.
super video, i use this tool for my windows, and linux system's to backup many many years !!!! nice weekend .....
Have a great weekend as well!
I really like your channel. Thank you for your really helpful videos.
Is this any better than using dd to save or restore? Admittedly I've only used it for smaller Raspberry Pi full disks or partitions but I do like dd.
Cool one. Do you know if Ghost still there or was it renamed? I love Ghost, but will try Clonezilla though
Thanks, that was clear and straight forward
Hey Chris This Is Cool Thanks For These Useful Information ❤️
This video is amazing!. Clonezilla is hard and great at the same time. Thanks Chris!.
Great video Chris! Been keeping an eye out for an open source solution like this. Curious about the RAT though. Video about that? I have a few Linux and Windows machines that it'd be super useful to remote access. Looks almost exactly like how RMM modules function on some server boards.
Very useful tool. Read the prompts carefully. Easily does the process to a Windows network share or many other protocols.
Been using CZ at work for years. Recently Dell started changing their BIOS GUI and moving options around. Have you used CZ on a newer Dell Latitude, like a 7420 or newer?
Given this is just one open for cloning, can you do a video that takes a deeper dive into cloning that covers most of the options and suggests the best tools? I just spent a ton of time down that rabbit hole, so I can appreciate a better look at the subject. Thx
excellent walk through thank you for creating, a few questions . . .
q1. any issues you foresee using this to move a vmware player [ or hyper-v ] windows 11/10 install to a physical machine install where the latter boots into clonezilla iso using usb boot stick?
q2. does clonezilla iso support detection and enabling of intel SoC wifi adapters and/or realtek usb nano dongle adapters so that you can boot physical machine and receive clone over a wifi network vs using the to/from image approach?
q3. any issues you foresee with the cloning of windows 11/10 from vmware player [ or hyper-v ] or different intel x86 isa 64-bit system, e.g. 8th gen i5 to 11th gen i7, setup to a new more current hardware setup?
Nice walk through. Clonezilla is great, but I wish it was more intuitive. It would be perfect if you could clone larger drives to smaller ones and automatically shrink the partition.
@Donald Mickunas You would think it would be possible. I often replace 1TB hdds with 250GB ssds. Most users use less than 100GB of data. I'm usually stuck with windows tools for this. I used to use ghost, but it doesn't work for gpt partitions.
Will siemens nxcad 11.0 run comfortably on windows 10 virtually installed( using oracle virtual box) on ubuntu 18.04lts ?
( i have only hdd of 1Tb only and
i5 8th gen)
plz reply, i'm beginner???
thank you very much for this tutorial , you are the only channel offering such a great tool , all other channel are bullshit , I'm very gratefull
Hi Chris, thanks for the vid. Very helpful. I did have a question though. You mentioned in this video that you shrank your data down to ensure that the image created was not too large for the target drive. I have a situation where the usb image occasionaly is too large for the target drive. Can you describe how I can shrink the image down.
If we backup a windows system will it back up C + all other drives present or will it backup only the C drive? Also, when restoring back windows do we get an option to chose which drive the restore needs to go into? Thanks!
A suggestion would be to rename this video to something more like "Clone Any System using CloneZilla (showing both the Backup and Restore Process)".
It was really straight forward.
Agreed - second option is best for me. Now if only we could customise the iso to make our desired setup. It would save a lot of menuing.
Worked perfectly. Thanks for the help :)
I cant wait to try it. It still looks super confusing to me but this will most likely save me alot of trouble in the future
I have never been able to get CloneZilla to actually RECOVER a failed backup to a new drive. The replacement drive has to be the EXACT same size or larger than the original. Heck, even larger drives mostly fail recovery anyways. And forget "cloning" a 500GB to a 250SSD. Aint gonna happen. Even resizing partitions with GParted or the Windows disk management. Nope. diskgenius. has been my go to for a while now. The free version works great!
worked perfectly thank you for the video.
What's that "out of band remote access" tool you used in video?
Seems like an efficient method to access BIOS remotely.
Great video!
I'm trying to restore an image to an external drive through Virtualbox. However, the speed slows down to a halt and do not complete. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
What is the function in Acronis and Macrium called which allows you to automatically clone from a bigger drive/partition to a smaller drive/partition? I want something open source and bootable which has this function. Preferable with a cozy GUI
You should also check Rescuezilla that is more simple.
Will do, thanks for the suggestion!
Great Video!! Can an image be restored on a different hardware configuration system? For example a Dell 780 image to a Dell 3070
Still working as of today, ty!
Really helped me, Thanks
Question: When restoring a Clonezilla Image, should I delete/format the destination disk before? Wanna do a clean restore, but idk if that works.
Tried DD clone MINT20 partition of a Grub multiboot drive, to a clean drive .. to enlarge the m20 from partition to whole drive.
Made a partition 20g bigger than Source, DD it, then GPARTED to 'grow' partition to whole drive with auto-expand filesystem to match.
Booted m19, filemanager mount & use new drive m20, Updategrub, reboot.. *it is in Grub Menu but trying to boot new actually boots old* Source m20 not new drive.
Is this a UUID problem of old & new existing same time? ( havent poked at problem much yet, since Old partition is still working fine)
Hey Chris, love your videos. In fact, they've spurred me on to try out Fedora 36. I have it installed and configured - all good in that department. However, lol, why is there always an 'however' with computers? In windows I can easily create system images. Using clonezilla I was able to create system images of PopOS but I prefer Fedora. And clonezilla just doesn't seem to boot. The startup just rips past to the login. I checked on the clonezilla site and they have different downloads for debian / ubuntu distros. I've tried both and have been frustrated. A win 11 boot disk is recognized and boots fine but none of my clonezilla usbs work. This is on a Surface Go 2 M3. I've tried with secure boot off and on. I've been use the Fedora Media Writer proggie to create the live bootable USB. Any suggestions for me?
Hello Chris! Thanks for this video! How do you set up your prompt to show a preview of your command and underlining the sudo command while typing? (2:27) I like that a lot!
It's a ZSH shell. th-cam.com/video/ynL1fYncZ1E/w-d-xo.html
How do I shrink the source drive before starting? I want to transfer everything from my 1TB HDD to my 960GB SSD. But when I run Clonezilla it doesn't allow me to do disk to disk transfer because the source (1TB HDD) is bigger than the destination (960GB SSD) even though the real space that is used is about 500GB on the source disk, so I have plenty of space on my SSD. Any help would be appreciated!
Do you maybe have a video about mesh commander, or are thinking of making one? I've been looking for a while for some browser based remote desktop solution. Kind regards.
th-cam.com/video/QBqc2SNw4_U/w-d-xo.html here you go. Mesh commander
@@ChrisTitusTech Thank you :)
@@ChrisTitusTech ah too bad it's only for some intel. I've tried Apache Guacamole, but couldn't get it to work :/
I really don't like Clonezilla as a "backup" tool, for Linux especially. rsync is far more suited for this kind of job. Cause when you backup you want to sync the data (i.e. write only the changes) but Clonezilla just images the drive which rewrites the whole thing and the backup is not really browsable. Now for cloning and imaging it's great.
So true!
My favorite Clonezilla experience was using multicast to image an entire computer lab for a school.
What is multicast, bro?
As much as I love Clonezilla and I know it uses dd, I still find raw dd is sometimes the only tool that can successfully copy some non standard formats and layouts
QUESTION: If my laptop is dual boot, will Clonzilla clone everything (efi partition-fat32, recovery partition, basi data partition - nfts (windows), linux ext4 partition and the last ntfs recovery partition)? Meaning if colne back in the machine I could boot in Windows or linux?
would this be a good way to backup old external hard drives (not ones that have OS install. Just has data on it), or is there a different software I should use for this purpose. Also would it be possible to mount the image to your device to browse through the file system. I have some ancient harddrives that I want to backup incase the drives fail, but also want to look through the files on them. Can Clonezilla do a byte by bvte clone (for example if the file system on the drive is broken or is an obscure file system that isn't supported)
Hello, please a tip. I have a source HDD that is larger than the target SSD. But I have a large unallocated partition with 3 other small partitions on the source drive. Is it possible to choose and clone a partition and repeat the operation with 2 other partitions so that the target SSD drive is operational and full with 3 small partitions? By choosing the partition-partition cloning menu in beginner mode, this 3 times in a row .... simpler I think disk to disk expert mode. No ? thank you for your opinion
I recently had a failure with Clonezilla. I had a linux system which I backed up with Clonezilla and the Clonezilla image was stored on a new thumb-drive. Over the years I have never had a problem with Clonezilla - so it was my typical backup utility.
However - at the time I made the Clonezilla backup I also performed a backup using Timeshift
And the Timeshift backup data was stored on an external hard-drive.
I was unable to restore the system using Clonezilla because at the step in which one is to insert the thumb drive which contains the backup image to be restored - Clonezilla was unable to recognize the thumb-drive when it was plugged into the PC.
All other systems readily recognized that thumb-drive without a problem. But for some reason Clonezilla in that machine was unable to recognize it. So I was unsuccessful at recovering that machine using Clonezilla.
Fortunately - the Timeshift backup worked flawlessly.
But, you haven't told us, what filesystem should the backup drive (where the image is stored) have? Any filesystem works? Also, I still don't understand what the step at 5:56 is doing. Could anyone please explain it?
When the OpenCore macOS Big Sur failed to install, Chris thought "hmmm.....Lets try LinuxCore", and here it is.
Macrium Reflect rocks
Macrium Reflect Free not open source but just works.
Would this work for a dual-boot ( windows 10 & kubuntu 20.04) system?
As in: if I follow this tutorial, would both the operating system be backed up and can be restored to a fully functioning dual-boot?
Thanks for the video Chris, but I am surprised that there isn't a "Noob Mode" that I would probably use 99% of the time, just to backup and restore image files...
The whole process could have been made much simpler IMHO... I know I'll have to do it a dozen times (backup and restore) to be sure I understand before I touch real data...
Current system is on an had. My bios and windows system recognizes the NVME I just installed, but not clonezilla.any suggestions?
4 Years ago I installed in my system a 500 mb nvme drive for a dual boot Manjaro-Windows. Now I just got a 1TB and I am wondering if reinstalling everything would be worth it since I have never had a problem. I know a clean install would be better but time consuming.
It worked! Tank you sir.
Can we restore to an SSD with less capacity?
Or, same or larger capacity drive required?
It was said that only used sectors are backed up??
hey there chris im not sure who to ask but i have an issue after cloned a m.2 drive from a 3.0 to a 4.0 for some reason everytime i boot up my computer now after cloning my c drive it brings me to bios on power up and if dont do any changes to the bios and just save and exit it boots right up any ideas what i can do ... on the power up in the bios it doesnt even see the c drive until i exit the bios
Hello. I just want to fresh install win11 again then make a full backup, then install all my apps I use and make again a full backup.
I want to keep this 2 backups and in case I want to restore it back to a fresh windows or a fresh windows+apps, I can do it without installing all over everything.
Can Clonezilla do it? Or which Backup software to use to do it this way?
Hope I was clear enough and you can help me. Thank you!
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thanks for sharing these tips !!