The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.0.3 has been announced, 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 334 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 base has been completed as of February 12.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 6.1 (previously it was version 6.0).
- The Partclone toolkit has been upgraded to version 0.3.23, which includes updates to the code for supporting btrfs.
- The recovery menu now shows the ‘-j2’ option, which is disabled by default.
- The saving menu now displays the swap partition, which can be saved just like regular data partitions. Two saving modes are available: saving only metadata (UUID/partition label) and creating a complete dump using the dd utility.
- Improved support for configurations with multiple LUKS encrypted devices.
- The setterm utility now uses the ‘—powersave off’ option to prevent the console from turning off.
- Support for the mkinitcpio utility has been added to the initramfs update mechanism, which resolves issues with recovering Arch and Manjaro Linux.
- A new utility, ocs-live-ver, has been included to display the version of Clonezilla Live.
- The ocs-bttrack utility has been replaced with opentracker, as Python 2 has been removed from the Debian Sid distribution.
- The memory testing utility Memtest86+ has been updated to version 6.00.
Source: opennet.ru
