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Clonezilla is a free disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution

A free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment solution. Allows a user to clone an individual machine or many computers

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How do I move (copy) my entire Ubuntu system to a different hard disk?

The HDD I have my Ubuntu installed is about to fail. I would rather not lose 3 years worth of data, customisation and apps. I am looking for a way to move the complete system (SWAP included, because I'm not sure if I can relink the system to a new…
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How to clone to a smaller harddisk?

How to clone a harddisk to a smaller sized one. Clonezilla is great but it doesn't support such functionality. Also dd and PartImage don't support this demand. rsync will not copy the MBR since an MBR is not a file. I need to clone a HDD not to…
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Restoring clonezilla images - cat | gzip | partclone not working!

I am trying to restore an image that was taken with clonezilla. It was taken from a Windows 7 machine and was broken up into multiple files of the following format.. sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.a* (where * goes from a-k) I have searched online for methods…
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How to create a bootable Clonezilla USB that works?

I'm trying to create a bootable clonezilla usb with tuxboot, the application that is recommended by clonezilla site. I installed it via Ubuntu PPA and follow the instructions on the site to put files on usb. Everything went well and then I restarted…
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What version of clonezilla live should I use?

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal 64 bits, on a different partition Windows Vista 32 bits (brought this factory and I is useful for programs that bring). I want to clone both OS with clonezilla live, but in the Clonezilla-live page…
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Can I use Clonezilla for backup without destroying what's already on the destination drive?

I'm not sure I understand backups with Clonezilla. Will Clonezilla erase the destination (backup) disk as it creates a backup or will all the previously saved files be preserved on the backup disk?
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Clonezilla image size smaller than expected

I just used Clonezilla for the first time today. It seemed to go well, but the resulting image is smaller than I expected. The parition that I wanted to clone has about 21GB of space used on it, yet the image is only about 12GB. Is this normal?…
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Is it possible to exclude folders in Clonezilla?

I want to backup my Xubuntu using Clonezilla, but I want to exclude some folders, like pictures. Is it possible to exclude some folders from being backed up on Clonezilla? I have 18gb of music, 20 gb of movies and 12gb of ebooks that are already…
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How to migrate Ubuntu/Windows 7 dualboot from HDD to HDD+SSD without reinstall?

I have a working dual-boot setup (Ubuntu 12.10 and Win7) on my laptop. I got a 320GB HDD with partitions for /, /home, swap, winsys and a big windata partition. There's more than 250GB space occupied overall. Now I bought a 250GB SSD which I will…
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Adding Clonezilla to GRUB boot menu

I have a dual boot system with Windows and Ubuntu and used to add Clonezilla as third item on my boot menu via this script: menuentry "Backup/Restore" { set isofile="/home/xaqon/clonezilla.iso" loopback loop $isofile linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz…
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grub and grub2 seems to run sequentially at boot time

Recently I have cloned my Ubuntu installation from one drive to another using clonezilla, parted magic. It seems that the clonezilla has put its own bootloader into the target drive. Before cloning, My computer would boot really quick into Ubuntu…
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Clonezilla on normal running system

I only used Clonezilla on Live USB and tried to use it inside running Ubuntu 14.04 amd64, so before installed it in usual way apt-get install clonezilla Then inserted source USB drive to clone started clonezilla as root choosen disk to image mode,…
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Boot Clonezilla ISO from GRUB2 Menu

I want to use the most current Clonezilla iso file to backup the partition that contains the Ubuntu operating system that is stored on partition one of my computer's hard drive and I want to be able to boot the iso file from the Grub2 menu. How…
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Do I need to back up my swap partition?

I am I wondering why I am not able to see the swap area of Ubuntu in clonezilla. I want to create an image of my Ubuntu. However, I cannot find the swap partition of Ubuntu to image it. Thanks.
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After running clonezilla my external HDD is mounted read only

I've run clonezilla (didn't finish and just exit in the middle) and set my dest drive as my /dev/sdd1 2TB I've unmounted using sudo umount /home/partimag/ and now when I mount my external HDD it's marked as read only. I can execute this…
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