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However, Clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk. Based on Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to image or clone a partition.AES-256 encryption could be used to secures data access, storage and transfer.The image file can be on local disk, ssh server, samba server, NFS server or WebDAV server.You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.

Multicast is supported in Clonezilla SE, which is suitable for massively clone.This is done with ecryptfs, a POSIX-compliant enterprise cryptographic stacked filesystem. One image restoring to multiple local devices is supported.

You can also use a lot of boot parameters to customize your own imaging and cloning. Almost all steps can be done via commands and options. Clonezilla live also can be booted on a BIOS or uEFI machine.

Both MBR and GPT partition formats of hard drive are supported.

LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.īoot loader, including grub (version 1 and version 2) and syslinux, could be reinstalled.

For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows, Intel-based Mac OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Minix, VMWare ESX and Chrome OS/Chromium OS, no matter it's 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS.

Many File systems are supported: (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs and f2fs of GNU/Linux, (2) FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS+ of Mac OS, (4) UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, (5) minix of Minix, and (6) VMFS3 and VMFS5 of VMWare ESX.

Very complete and robust piece of software. I use Clonezilla for that, and it never failed me.

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