Clonezilla

Clonezilla is a free disk cloning, disk imaging, data recovery, and deployment computer program written in perl and bash and use partclone software to save and restore used blocks on a partition.

Clonezilla Live

Clonezilla live offers an interactive interface for restoring and backup or you can just execute commands with appropriate parameters. Some binaries are:

• ocs-sr or ocs-sr -x for interactive mode

/usr/sbin/ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto e2 -r -j2 -c -scr -p choose restoredisk RESTORE_SOURCE_OMG DEVICE

/usr/sbin/ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto e2 -r -j2 -c -scr -p choose restoredisk 2019-09-10-14-img nvme0n1

-g == --grub-install

-e1 == --change-geometry NTFS-BOOT-PARTITION

-e2 == --load-geometry-from-edd

-r == --resize partition

-scr == ---skip-check-restorable

-p == --postaction (default reboot)

• ocs-live

Activities

1. /Create an image of your systems using Clonezilla-liveCD on an external USB disk and restore it to a new systems/
2. Create a custom script based on https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/blob/master/samples/custom-ocs example and modified it to make an unattended restore.
3. Read unattended mode documentation: https://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc/00_live-boot-parameters.doc, for live USB modify: syslinux/syslinux.cfg
4. Read ocs-sr command line examples https://clonezilla.org/advanced/reserved-word-ocs-sr.php and code https://github.com/stevenshiau/clonezilla/blob/master/sbin/ocs-sr

See also

• Linux server administration/Backup and Restore
• virt-p2v-make-disk