The release of Clonezilla Live 2.8.0 Linux distribution is available, 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 325 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 base as of November 17th.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to release 5.14 (was 5.10). Updated Partclone 0.3.18 and ezio 1.2.0 packages.
- A caching mechanism has been implemented to speed up drive scanning.
- The ocs-live-netcfg package has added the ability to configure a wireless network using the nmtui utility or via transmission when loading the ocs_nic_type parameter.
- Update-efi-nvram-boot-entry now mentions saved nvram data (efi-nvram.dat) and added support for handling multiple boot entries.
- The console interface allows the use of reserved names in the names of disk images.
Source: opennet.ru