The Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.0.0 has been released, designed for quick disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the ISO image is 356 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:
- Support has been added for creating images and cloning partitions with APFS (Apple File System).
- Synchronized with the Debian Sid package repository as of May 22.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.17 (from 5.15).
- The Partclone toolkit has been updated to version 0.3.20.
- Support for backing up encrypted partitions in LUKS format has been added.
- The live image includes the packages wavemon, memtester, edac-utils, shc, and uml-utilities. The s3ql package has been removed from the main set.
- An improved mechanism for checking the GPT/MBR format has been proposed.
- The ocs-sr and ocs-onthefly utilities have added an empty option '-k0' for creating partitions using default settings.
- A utility for memory testing has been added to the uEFI boot menu.
- A boot parameter use_os_prober=no has been added to disable the launching of os-prober, as well as the parameter use_dev_list_cache=no to disable the use of the available devices cache.
Source: opennet.ru
