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OpenSource clone system solution with unicasting and multicasting. Hosted at clonezilla.org.

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Alternative to PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini, possibly via USB?

Are there any decent ways to accomplish PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini (Core i5)? I need to be able to boot into CloneZilla over the network (as I want to image the Mac Mini's hard drive, and later on clone it to other Mac Minis). I've already…
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Full Disk Imaging when machine is running

I am looking for a disk imaging solution that can run in background when my machine is up and running (e.g. via cron). I am using an Ubuntu machine. In the past I have used Clonezilla for periodic imaging but would like to do nightly full-disk…
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CloneZilla PXE Boot Without NFS

I am trying to setup CloneZilla to be bootable via PXE without using NFS. I do not have NFS running on our PXE server and would like to keep it that way. However, most of the information that I have found online indicates that you need to setup…
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Script to automate clonezilla to create a bootable image on USB

We are using Clonezilla with its Debian based OS and want to make a bootable image on a USB. All PCs are exactly identical, the hard drive is sda1. The PC runs under Windows XP and has about 4GB of used HD space. Both the cloner as well as the…
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What would be the ideal solution to sync 2 offline systems?

we are in a special case where we have 2 Ubuntu offline servers in 2 DCs and should be kept offline when not used. When we need to use them, we power up one of them, do whatever we want physically via KVM and then power it off again. Network…
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Clone Centos 7 installation - MBR to GPT

I want to clone a centos 7 installation (using LVM) from a 500GB drive (using MBR) to a new 6TB HDD. I tried to use clonezilla to clone the the drives with no success. fdisk -l output from clonezilla: Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes,…
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CloneZilla syslinux.cfg works on yakkety but not on artful

I installed CloneZilla 20180329 amd64, the artful alternative version and tried to automate some settings via the ocs_prerun variables. Specifically I want to set the locale and keyboard layout, the Wifi connection (if possible not the password) +…
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How to copy Linux disk to a smaller flash drive

I have a virtual machine on my Windows 10 desktop (VMWare WS) running Debian 9 which needed 12 GB to install, I gave it 15 GB for safe measure. So it's effectively a 15 GB hard disk. I need to make several copies of this VM onto 8 GB bootable flash…
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How do I make Clonezilla Server (DRBL) restore to only one machine in a network?

If I have 100 machines, but I only want to restore/push and image to five of them, how can I set DRBL to do that? I am afraid that if something other than one of those five reboots, it will get pushed an image. That would be bad. Do I need to put…
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'Could not find filesystem /dev/root' after Clonezilla clone of redhat install to newer hardware'

I am cloning what appears to be a redhat 4 (possibly 5?)server to fairly newer hardware, as the original has a failing board. DBA would rather not reconfigure a new installation so they want me to clone if possible. I used Clonezilla stable…
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Store Live CD's on HD and Boot from GRUB

I use "Clonezilla" and the "SystemRescueCD" on a lot of servers and I was wondering if there' s a way to copy the ISO files (from the above tools) into a partition (e.g in every server) and modify grub.conf accordingly so that I could reboot the…
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Ubuntu Clonezilla (Server) Disk Image Import/Export

We are running a clonezilla server(s) and I need to copy off (export) the newest disk image folder to and import it onto another clonezilla server in another city. I found the directory in the ubuntu gui but it gives me permissions errors when…
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Windows 2008 partition cloned from physical to VM won't boot

I'm trying to clone Windows Server 2008 from a physical 1TB HDD to a VM with smaller HDD (160GB) in proxmox (KVM). This can't be done with Clonzilla's disk-to-disk mode, so I resized the partition using Windows Server's built-in tool, rebooted the…
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How can I create a bootable media image that provides automated recovery?

I have clients/employees who use company workstations and want to create a dedicated restore partition on the drive such that when they boot into it, it boots into an automated recovery sequence, and restores a particular partition to a particular…
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Using Clonezill/DRBL DHCP as main DHCP server

Right now in my department we are running a DHCP server on some older hardware that is looking like it might fail soon(ish) and is also running CentOS 4. We'd like to upgrade to a new DHCP server but we are also in the process of updating our…
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