Clonezilla: disk cloning, but it's easier than dd

Does anyone read descriptions anymore? If you read the description, comment with "That's a bossy video". Shoot, is that engagement farming? Oh well.

What? Oh, right, I'm supposed to be describing this video.

It's about Clonezilla! I love using Clonezilla for backing up my disk drives to images. It's also helped me out to be able to convert a physical machine to a VM easily. It's such a simple tool and I'm really thankful to the folks who made it.

Lastly, I couldn't do this without the supporters I have on Patreon and Ko-Fi, who foot the bill for all of this nonsense. If you want to join our Discord-slash-Matrix, tiers start at $2/mo USD. Thank you!

Chapters:
0:00 I say "greetings" and tell you about Clonezilla
3:26 What do you need to start using Clonezilla?
4:57 What I'm using to demonstrate Clonezilla
5:45 Getting started and choosing a Clonezilla mode
8:10 Cloning a device to an image with Clonezilla
12:18 Restoring a Clonezilla image to a new device
15:00 It even works with encryption!

#homelab #linux #sysadmin

[VeronicaExplains]

To all of you "what does this do over dd?" bros: you clearly didn't watch until the end where I say "nice" as the screen shows Clonezilla doing more than dd.

I almost made a "but Veronica, can't I just use dd?" bit in the video, but I didn't think I'd have to.

Sigh

[UnwalledGarden]

Thank you for another video cutting through the noise and just telling us “how to do it.” I’m cloning my laptop to an ISO right now so I have a backup.

[ABizzyBYT]

Well this is weird. I was looking up how to clone my Linux drive yesterday. Here you are delivering the content I need

[mikehosken]

I’ve used clonezilla for almost 15 years. The tool that’s saved my butt more times than I can remember.

[Honkinwaffle]

I just did a big PC upgrade for a friend of mine and it blew his mind that everything on the new PC was exactly as he left it. Clonezilla always makes the process incredibly simple and quick. A lot of non-technical users just assume that something like this isn't possible.

[JuanLopez-vfmo]

Great video, Veronica! Thank you very much. I once cloned a drive to another with smaller size using the parameter -r included in the expert mode of Clonezilla.
Sorry for my english.
Greetings!

[susanpinochet]

Clonezilla wasn't on my radar, but I see that it should be in my toolbox. Thanks for the video.

[saintFozzy]

That's a bossy video :). Been using clonezilla for over ten years. Awesome tool!!

[petadam]

I just bought two HDDs for this very purpose. Thank you Veronica

[RogerioPereiradaSilva]

Clonezilla works perfectly with Ventoy. I have a small thumbdrive with Ventoy installed with several different distros in it, each focusing on different things and I LOVE it!

And what a bossy video! 😄

[gingered]

I like how you pick more basic tools to not bog down the video with "you could also do this x y or z way"

I havent used clonezilla in a long time, this was a nice refresher. I briefly used Acronis for work (because the boss said so) until I set up a FOG Project server and migrated our images into it (waaaay beyond the scope for your videos). Home stuff I'm too lazy to keep an ISO around and dd into gzip from whatever live iso i have in the moment for image backups.

[sgsax]

I love Clonezilla! We use it all the time at work, added it to our pxe sever, so it's super easy to deploy, and save images to an nfs share. Thanks for sharing one of my favorite tools?

[carltondoorman]

Great video! I've played with Clonezilla, but found it more techincally complex than I thought necessary for home users. I've heard Rescuezilla is more user-friendly, and I think it's from the same programmer. But it uses an odd disk format which some computers won't recognize. Still, Veronica does make Clonezilla seem a lot more usable for us less-technical users.

[MakersEase]

I could not live without Clonezilla.... It is awesome.

[keyboarderror]

Clonezilla has been my total backup solution for years. It's about the only way to image a drive with multiple operating systems. Or get data into a lifeboat as a drive crumbles to dust. And it's free!

[rickgrimes]

That’s a bossy video.

Have used Clonezilla in the enterprise for quite a while. Always been a great tool for me.

[VirendraBG]

I really love when content creators make videos without annoying background music.
I know everything you mentioned in this video, but I'm still watching carefully. Your way of explaining, and the speech is like a great teacher.
❤ From INDIA.
Keep posting.
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[samuelbanya]

1:09 that is the cutest little setup I have ever seen for a rescue setup. What a good idea!

[LinuxtheMac]

I knew there was something special about this channel when you made the short wave video… Now this is become one of my favorite channels… as usual, great content, fantastic host❤

[XX-kmhp]

was just looking into this and then I saw the notification. perfect timing!