Clonezilla
Clonezilla is an open-source suite of disk cloning, disk imaging and system deployment utilities. Clonezilla Server Edition uses multicast technologies to deploy a single image file to a group of computers on a local area network. Clonezilla was designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan.
| Original author(s) | Steven Shiau |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | NCHC Free Software Labs |
| Initial release | 8 September 2007 |
| Stable release | |
| Preview release | 3.1.1-1
/ May 7, 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Perl, Unix shell |
| Operating system | POSIX, Linux |
| Available in | English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) |
| Type | Disk cloning, disk imaging, system deployment |
| License | GPL |
| Website | clonezilla |
Clonezilla is used to deploy operating systems to computers by imaging a single computer and then deploying that image to one or more systems. It integrates several other open-source programs to provide cloning and imaging capabilities.
Clonezilla works by copying used blocks on the storage device (i.e. SATA SSD, HDD or NVMe SSD). It is intended to support a bare-metal deployment of an operating systems by booting from a preinstalled live environment. The preinstallation environment can be booted from a USB flash drive, CD/DVD-ROM or Android mobile phone. It uses Partclone, Ntfsclone, Partimage, or dd to image the drive either over the network or to a locally-attached hard disk drive.