The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 3.1.1 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 417MB (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 November 2.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 6.5 (previously 6.1).
- The Partclone toolkit has been updated to version 0.3.27, which adds support for the options '—read-direct-io' and '—write-direct-io' to enable direct input/output during reading and writing.
- The ezio package, used for distributing disk images over a local network via the BitTorrent protocol, has been updated to version 2.0.5 with support for torrent files larger than 4 MB.
- The live build includes the acpitool, ntfs2btrfs, zfsutils-linux, and vim packages (instead of vim-tiny).
- The mlocate package has been replaced with plocate.
- The TUI now includes the '-edio' option to enable direct input/output in Partclone during saving and restoring NVMe SSDs.
- A mechanism for deployment from raw devices in multicast mode has been added.
- When saving images in TUI, the compression mode '-z9p' (multi-threaded zstd compression) is enabled by default.
- The options '-ssnf' and '-iui' have been added to ocs-live-feed-img.
- In bt_restoredisk mode, restoring images to a device with a different name is allowed.
- Support for the boot parameter ocs_screen_blank='no' has been added to prevent the screen from turning off during inactivity.
- The Memtest86+ utility has been updated to version 6.20.
- The ability to select the active network adapter on systems with multiple network cards has been provided.
Source: opennet.ru
