Use Clonezilla to Image a New Computer
by walter on Jan.03, 2010, under Computing, Linux
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Then it will show you the top level directories on the chosen destination drive. You’ll choose into which one you want the image to be saved.
Next, you’ll see this, and to be frank I’m not entirely sure what this is. I think its the temporary folder system that’s being established by Clonezilla. In this example, you see that /dev/sda1 which is the Sandisk drive, is being mounted to /tmp/local-dev, and /tmp/local-dev is being mounted to /home/partimag. Good information I suppose, but I don’t really know why I need to see it. Just press Enter and continue.
I’ve only done this in Beginner mode. Experiment with Expert at your own peril.
This next screen asks if you want to save the whole disk, save specific partitions, or restore. To create your image, choose savedisk
This is the filename that will be used. Change it to whatever you prefer.
The next screen is where you’ll choose the drive to image. In this case, I only had one choice. Make sure its the right one. I see its the Vbox drive I want to image, so I’ll proceed.
Here’s another one of those screens that’s just FYI. Just hit Enter.
Here’s your last chance to back out before anything gets done. If you’re ready, let it go and it will cycle through each partition on the selected drive and back it up to your destination drive.
Restoring an image is the same, up to that screen where you choose “savedisk”. Instead, you’d choose restoredisk.
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March 25th, 2010 on 3:46 pm
Walter, Thanks for the how to. I need to see if I can use this to make a back up of my server before it crashes. I would also like to see if I can use this to turn a real machine and into a Virtualbox guest machine.