The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 2.8.1 has been announced, designed for quick disk cloning (only the used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the distribution's iso image is 339 MB (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 repository has been completed as of January 3rd.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.15 (was 5.14).
- By default, the splitting of files with partition images has been disabled (when calling ocs-sr the option "-i 0" is used).
- Locale files updated.
- In the boot-local-efi.cfg settings, the detection of disks hd1, hd2, etc. has been improved.
- Support for dracut from CentOS 6 has been added, and the option "--tmpdir" can now be specified when restoring CentOS 6.*.
Source: opennet.ru
