CloneZilla Live CD- Clone Your Disk and Disk Partition for Free

CloneZilla, a free disk cloning live CD that able clone your hard disk data like commercial disk cloning software such as Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image. CloneZilla disk cloning live CD is very useful because the disk image that created can be used for restoring your operating system with the computer configuration that you prefer.

Doing disk cloning is good backup solution because the copy of a data disk that created can be used for future restoration. The best time perform disk cloning is after you’d installed your operating system of choice, your favorite applications, and tweaked the system settings to your liking. Doing disk images cloning with CloneZilla can save you a lot of time without going the hectic installation , software configuration or additional nuisance the Windows operating system poses with its Activation policy.

Meanwhile, Clonezilla support for a multitude of file systems such as ext2, ext3, xfs, FAT, NTFS, and HFS+, ensuring you’ll be able to back up any Windows, Linux, or Mac systems you have. Clonezilla images only the used data blocks for increased efficiency on both the initial image and the restoration.

While doing disk cloning task with CloneZilla, you will asked several option required to configure before perform disk cloning task on your hard disk.

Options type of cloning:

• Copying device to image both as a backup to restore backup.
• Copy device to device: we can clone an entire drive or just a partition of this.

Options directory, or where or where basically restore / store our backup:

• Local machine: either an internal hard drive as external.
• SSH server.
• Samba server.
• NFS server.

Compression options, or as we want to be compress the image of our record:

• Gzip compression: rapid image but somewhat smaller than the real.
• Bzip2 compression: the slowest yet the most compressed.
• LZO compression: faster than gzip and with a similar size.
• Without compression: clearly the fastest but also the more that we occupy.

The CloneZilla Disk cloning step and step screenshots and explanation also provides on product documentation separated by the above-mentioned types of cloning.

Despite their Clonezilla interface is not as user friendly as Symantec Ghost, the fact is a disk cloning program performance is worth to try out. Plus more, Clonezilla is under GPL license which you no need to pay a single cent to download it.

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