Back up, Restore or Clone hard drives or partitions The easy way with Live Distros! By Carl Weisheit

Back up that disk with Clonezilla! Uses Partimage, ntfsclone and dd to clone partitions or whole disks. Can save as gzip, bzip2, Lzo, or uncompressed image. Supports ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, FAT and NTFS filesystems. Can save to local or network drive. Use easy to follow screens with directions Get It at:

Part 1: Backup A Partition

Select Language

Explaining keymap choices

Select Keymap

Start Clonezilla

Select disk/partition to image

Type of drive to save image (local or remote drives etc.)

Clonezilla will give you time to plug in a USB drive

Select partition to hold image

Select save_client_partition

Select which utilities will be used to make backup (use the top one)

Use the default parameters unless you know better

Select the type of image compression

Name the backup image

Select the source partition

Answer a couple of “are you sures?” watch the image be copied. Shutdown the computer when done.

Part 2: Restore A Partition

Select Language

Explaining keymap choices

Select Keymap

Start Clonezilla

Select disk/partition to image

Type of drive to save image (local or remote drives etc.)

Select partition holding image

Select Restore_client_partition

Use the default parameters unless you know better

Choose the image file to restore

Select target partition

Answer a couple of “are you sures?” watch the image be restored. Shutdown the computer when done.

Part 3: Clone A Partition

Select Language

Explaining keymap choices

Select Keymap

Start Clonezilla

Select disk/partition to disk/partition

Select local partition to local partition clone (note the other choices)

Select source partition

Select target partition

Use the default parameters unless you know better

Watch as the partition is cloned. Shutdown computer when done.

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