The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.1.3 has been published, designed for fast disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the ISO image of the distribution is 457MB (i686, amd64).
The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Booting from CD/DVD, USB Flash, and over the network (PXE) is possible. LVM2 and file systems ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs, f2fs, nilfs2, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, UFS, minix, VMFS3, and VMFS5 (VMware ESX) are supported. A mass cloning mode over the network is available, including traffic transmission in multicast mode, allowing simultaneous cloning of the source disk to a large number of client machines. Cloning from one disk to another, as well as creating backups via saving a disk image to a file, is possible. Cloning can occur at the level of entire disks or individual partitions.
In the new version:
- Synchronization with the Debian Sid package base has been completed as of June 28.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to branch 6.9 (previously kernel 6.5).
- The Partclone toolkit has been upgraded to version 0.3.31.
- The packages deborphan, cpufrequtils (no longer supplied in Debian repositories), and thin-provisioning-tools (has dependency issues) have been removed.
- The package yq, a utility for processing YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML formats, has been added.
- The live-boot and live-config packages have been updated.
- In the Live environment, the size of the data save buffer during screen content scrolling has been increased for easier debugging.
Source: opennet.ru
