Version: 2.6.2-15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-07-28
Votes: 39
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Essential tool for any serious computer user. Keep your system tip-top by reimaging the OS to the "master" disk image of the installation. While distro-hopping I used clonezilla in 2 ways. 1) While testing the OSes listed on this site, I would use Clonezilla to save disk images of my favourite installations. After a week I had disk images of mx linux, mint, antix, arch linux, artix, void, devuan, and would go in and out of these OSes to find my fit (artix being the one that I decided to keep). With Clonezilla I can restore a disk image in 90 seconds. 2) While installing particularly tricky installations (arch linux/artix) where things would go suddenly fubar, I would use Clonezilla to create incremental disk images up to the fubar point. That way, instead of re-installing the OS after a fubar, I coiuld simply restore the image and be back to my safe point in 90 seconds. Clonezilla saved me hours literally.
Prior to using Clonezilla I was using Acronis True Image and before that Norton Ghost. At first I was confused and annoyed by Clonezilla's menu options (terminology and interface), but soon I got it and saw how fast the Clonezilla workflow is compared to Ghost and Acronis, which I have not used since windows 7.
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Version: 2.6.2-15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-07-13
Votes: 18
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A must have. I have yet to find any bugs, and it saved my data countless times.
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Version: 2.3.2-22
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-23
Votes: 22
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I could really use a clonezilla lite for simple desktop. Better skills with dd or partclone would be useful probably. I'm giving a 10 because I over reacted with a five previously. Perhaps clonezilla has "grown" beyond my use case.
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Version: 2.5.2-31
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-01
Votes: 17
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Has helped me so many times.
Very easy to use .
I have only tried minor operations e.g. disk to disk cloneing.
Dont know with more difficult tasks.
/frank
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Version: 2.6.1-25
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-04-30
Votes: 0
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systemd failed to shut down. swell.Every "improvement" seems to be a less usable result.
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Version: 2.6.1-2
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-20
Votes: 0
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migrated my notebook hdd with a lot of partitions to an ssd - worked perfectly and very fast. Great distro!
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Version: 2.6.0-37
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-01-11
Votes: 1
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I use a lot clonezilla for a while but V2.6.0-37 is bugged in the language management: if you select French you get a mix of Spanish and Russian...
But the functions are very good.
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Version: 2.6.0-37
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-11
Votes: 1
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Very fast software, stable to, very good hardware support, Live CD or Live USB have fast boot, text based, use for my PC Linux system backup.
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Version: 2.6.0-37
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-11
Votes: 1
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Use it to backup and image Fedora/RHEL/CENTOS desktops and servers and have had no issues with creating or restoring.
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Version: 2.5.6-22
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-11-23
Votes: 1
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I used a WinXP payware backup solution for years before I switched to Linux. Back in the day, several reviews pointed me in the direction of Clonezilla for Linux and I've never gone back to the payware stuff. Frankly, Clonezilla does everything I need a drive imaging solution to do. Nothing fancy and the price is right!
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Version: 2.5.6-22
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-11-20
Votes: 3
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Really love Clonezilla. Works well once you get the flow of the dialogues which can be intimidating at first. It would go a long way if they could make a simpler user interface one day.
The only issue I find is trying to restore an image on a different size drive than the image was created on. Not always as friendly here and sometimes not possible, when other products can do so fairly easily.
I trust and rely on Clonezilla whether it is this ISO, or using CloneZilla within a distro like Parted Magic, Clonezilla is one of my favourite trusted and most used tools.
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Version: 2.5.2-31
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-05-08
Votes: 3
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I cloned a dozen computers for my family ranch & taught 2 family members how to do regular backups Clonezilla Live has saved my data over & over
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Version: 2.5.5-38
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-04-12
Votes: 3
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I seldom give a project the highest possible rating, but considering the usefulness and price, I can’t see giving less.
10 of 10 - That doesn’t mean it’s perfect and/or can’t be improved upon. It just means it merits a score that matches the effort and quality poured into this project.
Keep up the good work...
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Version: 2.5.2-31
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-12-28
Votes: 10
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My criteria is: Does it do it's intended job efficiently with out problems.
Been using it since it's inception - A little rough back then.
Pros:
Only distro I feel I can't replace or do with out.
Easy. (Or advanced if you so choose. I have no idea what most of that stuff is so I don't muck with it.)
Simple interface / low overhead.
For me, the only backup since the bootable version of Norton Ghost on floppy.
I never worry about destroying my install because I get it back within minutes.
I can back up my install, try a new distro, restore my installation and get back to work.
Gets better with every version.
Cons:
I'd like to see a newer manual for simpletons like me.
I have night mares about the distro being discontinued.
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Version: 2.5.2-17
Rating: 2
Date: 2017-09-01
Votes: 4
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The user interface (UI) is terrible, awful, hideous and prehistorical one. The background orange colored image interferes with foreground white text, for those people with less than perfect eyesight, like myself. I used this only SW only once - for cloning HDD to SSD - with existing Linux OS. Objectively, I must admit, the SW surprised me that it identified an issue on the source disk - conflict between GPT and MBR partition tables (an old HP notebook vintage circa 2009 had an UEFI for developers' usage- unsupported for the end-users). The suggested command line performed the repair and the source disk was then being ready to be duplicated. The cloning was an affair of 5 minutes (256 GB only). The new SSD was fully functional once installed in the notebook. I would rather prefer to receive a root canal than to use this SW again.
The user selection of which distribution to be used is cumbersome, Debian vs. Ubuntu. Sayonara c-zilla.
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Version: 2.5.2-17
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-07-01
Votes: 5
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Pros,
1. A complete disk and or partition imaging solution.
2. Has many options to get things done.
3. A mature project with a desirable frequency of updated releases.
4. Stable and reliable.
Cons,
1. Not new user friendly, requires a decent amount of knowledge about the operating system being cloned along with the underlying protocols being utilized by Clonezilla mostly being because the menus aren’t very intuitive for new users leading to confusion and mistakes easily made.
2. According to the website lack of UEFI support in the current stable branch, one has to use the alternative stable branch to gain UEFI support.
3. Lacks UEFI label customization input field from within the user restore menu, you have to manually edit UEFI labels after restoring a complete disk image example: efibootmgr -c -L "Distrowatch" -l "\EFI\boot\grubx64.efi".
4. Lacks a centralized configuration file or data base where options can “easily” be tailored to your environment and made protestant.
Other Thoughts,
I’ve been using Clonezilla for more than 5 years and I currently use it as a quick backup solution with an external hard drive enclosure with two partitions one is 500MB fat32 with the boot flag set the other partition is fat32 rest of drive, I extract the Clonezilla zip to the 500MB boot partition and backup to the other partition, works good this way the second fat32 partition is jest for file system compatibility Windows/Lnux.
I hope they address UEFI soon other than that the “cons” are tolerable, I highly recommend Clonezilla to moderately experienced/skilled Linux users.
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Version: 2.4.9-17
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-23
Votes: 15
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Regardless of the version, this distro saved me many times in the past, and I always keep live USB with it around, just in case. Its ability to backup and restore disks/partitions locally or over the network is wonderful. Other utilities for disk recovery are great as well. Not to mention Windows password recovery (on non domain joined rigs).
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