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== Clonezilla ==
 
== Clonezilla ==
  
Clonezilla Live is a small bootable Linux distribution for disk cloning, disk imaging and data recovery.  The most common version for end users, Clonezilla Live, enables a user to clone a single computer's storage media, or a single partition on the media, to a separate medium device. The cloned data can be saved as an image-file or as a duplicated copy of the data. The data can be saved to locally attached storage device, an SSH server, a Samba server, or an NFS file-share. The clone file can then be used to restore the original when needed.  
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[[Clonezilla Live]] is a small bootable Linux distribution for disk cloning, disk imaging and data recovery.  The most common version for end users, Clonezilla Live, enables a user to clone a single computer's storage media, or a single partition on the media, to a separate medium device. The cloned data can be saved as an image-file or as a duplicated copy of the data. The data can be saved to locally attached storage device, an SSH server, a Samba server, or an NFS file-share. The clone file can then be used to restore the original when needed.
  
 
== Ghost for Unix ==
 
== Ghost for Unix ==
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Mondo Rescue is free disaster recovery software. It supports Linux and FreeBSD. It's packaged for multiple distributions. It also supports tapes, disks, USB devices, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware RAID.
 
Mondo Rescue is free disaster recovery software. It supports Linux and FreeBSD. It's packaged for multiple distributions. It also supports tapes, disks, USB devices, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware RAID.
  
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== Timeshift ==
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Not necessarily a disk image software, but a backup solution (consider moving to a different page category)  Timeshift is a new app on Linux Mint 19 Tara. Timeshift is used to save a snapshot of the different states of your Linux Mint 19 operating system. 
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== some related pages ==
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* [[Conventional Linux System Backup Methods]]
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* [[Disk Imaging for Linux]]
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* [[Disk Archiving Linux Commands]]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 00:32, 10 June 2020

Looking at modern ways to create a disk image of your linux system, there are a number of options. The first and best option as of this writing (2019) is clearly a free product called Clonezilla.

Clonezilla

Clonezilla Live is a small bootable Linux distribution for disk cloning, disk imaging and data recovery. The most common version for end users, Clonezilla Live, enables a user to clone a single computer's storage media, or a single partition on the media, to a separate medium device. The cloned data can be saved as an image-file or as a duplicated copy of the data. The data can be saved to locally attached storage device, an SSH server, a Samba server, or an NFS file-share. The clone file can then be used to restore the original when needed.

Ghost for Unix

g4u was a great imaging solution years ago, however, is out of date.

dd and dcfldd

To clone one partition to another:

dd if=/dev/sdc3 of=/dev/sdd3 bs=4096 conv=noerror

Mondo Rescue

Mondo Rescue is free disaster recovery software. It supports Linux and FreeBSD. It's packaged for multiple distributions. It also supports tapes, disks, USB devices, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware RAID.

Timeshift

Not necessarily a disk image software, but a backup solution (consider moving to a different page category) Timeshift is a new app on Linux Mint 19 Tara. Timeshift is used to save a snapshot of the different states of your Linux Mint 19 operating system.

some related pages

Last modified on 10 June 2020, at 00:32