The release of the Clonezilla Live 2.8.1 Linux distribution kit is presented, designed for fast disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to the proprietary Norton Ghost product. The distribution iso image size is 339 MB (i686, amd64).
The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses the code of such projects as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, udpcast in its work. Boot from CD/DVD, USB Flash and network (PXE) is possible. LVM2 and FS ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs, f2fs, nilfs2, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, UFS, minix, VMFS3 and VMFS5 (VMWare ESX) are supported. There is a mode of mass cloning over the network, including with the transfer of traffic in multicast mode, which allows you to simultaneously clone the source disk to a large number of client machines. It is possible both to clone from one disk to another, and to create backup copies by saving a disk image to a file. Cloning at the level of entire disks or individual partitions is possible.
In the new version:
- Synchronized with the Debian Sid package database as of January 3.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to release 5.15 (was 5.14).
- By default, splitting files with partition images into parts is stopped (when calling ocs-sr, the “-i 0” option is enabled).
- Updated locale files.
- In the boot-local-efi.cfg settings, the detection of disks hd1, hd2, etc. has been improved.
- Added support for dracut from CentOS 6 and adjusted the indication of the “--tmpdir” option when restoring CentOS 6.*.
Source: opennet.ru