The release is presented LinuxClonezilla Live 3.1.1, a distribution designed for fast disk cloning (copying only used blocks). The distribution's functionality is similar to that of the proprietary Norton Ghost product. The distribution's ISO image size is 417 MB (i686, amd64).
The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Booting from CD/DVD, USB Flash Drive, and network (PXE) is possible. Supported file systems include LVM2, ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs, f2fs, nilfs2, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, UFS, minix, VMFS3, and VMFS5 (VMWare ESX). A mass cloning mode over the network is available, including multicast traffic transmission, allowing simultaneous cloning of the source disk to a large number of client machines. Cloning from one disk to another is possible, as well as creating backup copies by saving the disk image to a file. Cloning is possible at the level of entire disks or individual partitions.
In the new version:
- Synchronization with the package database has been completed Debian Sid as of November 2.
- Core Linux updated to branch 6.5 (was kernel 6.1).
- The Partclone toolkit has been updated to Partclone version 0.3.27, which includes support for the “--read-direct-io” and “--write-direct-io” options to enable direct I/O when reading and writing.
- The ezio package, used to distribute disk images on a local network using 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- The mlocate package has been replaced by plocate.
- Added "-edio" option to TUI to enable direct I/O in Partclone when saving and restoring NVMe SSDs.
- Added a mechanism for deployment from raw devices in multicast mode.
- When saving images in TUI, the compression mode “-z9p” is enabled by default (zstd multi-threaded compression).
- Added "-ssnf" and "-iui" options to ocs-live-feed-img.
- The bt_restoredisk mode allows restoring images to a device with a different name.
- Added support for the boot parameter ocs_screen_blank="no" which prohibits turning off the screen when inactive.
- The Memtest86+ utility has been updated to version 6.20.
- Provides the ability to select the active network adapter on systems with multiple network cards.
Source: opennet.ru
