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OpenSource clone system solution with unicasting and multicasting. Hosted at clonezilla.org.

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Extracting files from Clonezilla images

Is there a way to browse Clonezilla images and extract individual files from them without restoring the whole image?
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Prepare a disk to be imaged by Clonezilla for use on smaller disks?

A recurring problem we have is that the computers we use to build our master images on may have larger hard drives than some of the target systems' drives. Its well-known that Clonezilla won't put a disk image on a smaller drive. Outside of finding…
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How to decrease virtual size/capacity of a Virtualbox vdi file

I want turn a physical machine running MS Windows 7 into a VirtualBox virtual machine. This is easy, I have done this before, but this time I needed the virtual size/capacity of the disk to be a fixed and smaller size. It needs to be fixed because I…
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Why is Clonezilla faster than dd?

On my SSD imaging (Source and Destination are 2 SSDs) I get 12GBpm using CloneZilla while with dd I get only 5GBpm. What makes Clonezilla so much faster than dd?
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Looking to replace Ghost with FSArchiver or Clonezilla, few questions about capabilities

I work for a PC Repair company and we are looking into setting up a dedicated machine with externally accessible SATA bays to clone harddrives as a safety net incase something goes wrong during a repair. We currently use a SATA/PATA to USB bridge…
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How to deploy same stack+configuration to multiple server?

Currently I have 2 VPSes, setup and configured almost exactly like this, with some other minor Nginx configurations. I did it all manually I want to get few other VPSes and deploy the exact same setup and configuration but I'm not sure which tool…
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Clonezilla restore MBR disk to 4TB disk (convert to GPT) -- LINUX (not Windows!)

I see this similar question was asked before, however it was either not answered or it pertained 100% to Windows workarounds. This is specifically Linux and I am trying to restore a Clonezilla image to a 4TB hard drive. I have used this image many…
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Images (e.g. with Clonezilla) of Windows and Linux on a UEFI computer

I use Clonezilla with success for many years to make images from partitions that host Windows 7 or smaller and Ubuntu and other operating systems. Making images and restore them was easy for me. But now with the advent of UEFI I‘m not sure how to…
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What's the best way to clone multiple PCs from one machine?

Where I work we have dozens and dozens of old ThinkPad laptops. A lot of these can be reused but not for our needs. They have been long since replaced. The higher-ups have decided to donate them to charity. For better or for worse I have been…
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clone for Hp-UX?

we have HP-UX installed on HP Itanium hardware. As per HP hp-ux will not run on intel board. and vmware also not supporting hp-ux as guest OS. Is there any way to clone the hp-ux and it will run on intel m/c using visualization or something else?
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How to clone Linux hard drive to smaller flash drive

Currently, I'm trying to clone a hard drive that has Linux installed to a 16GB flash drive. The hard drive is 233GB, but df -h shows that only 3.5G is in use. Can I use Clonezilla to create an image using just the allocated amount of space and copy…
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Windows 10 installation on Dell T7600 with PERC H310 Raid Controller

We work in an environment with machines running mostly CentOS 7.3 but from times to times we need to switch to Windows 10. To manage those changes, we have a PXE boot solution with tree options: boot currently locally installed OS reinstall CentOS…
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What is the best way to restore ubuntu on a new server with SSD hd and RAID?

I have a server, with a single hard disk (500GB Ubuntu OS 14.04), and I bought a new one having 1 SSD (250GB, which I thought I could use for the OS) and 2 normal SATA disk (2000GB, to use in RAID). Now, I'd want to restore the content of the first…
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Offline identification of Windows version in a Linux environment

I am trying to customize a Clonezilla Live iso to be able to conveniently take snapshots of different Windows installations (XP, Vista, Win7, Win8). Ideally I would like to boot the machine on a CD that automatically identifies the Windows version…
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Multi port clonezilla server

I am doing cloning of multiple computers - all of which are different. Therefore I can't do multicast - bummer :( However I can put multiple ethernets into the "server" (more like desktop) so can you have those ports being used as well so that you…
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