Clonezilla Full Disk Backup Program Tutorial

Clonezilla is a full disk backup program suitable for taking a backup of Windows, Linux, and Mac Systems.
It can be used across disk partitions, or backing up to an internal / external hard drive.
Download from http://clonezilla.org/

Other useful programs
UNetBootIn http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
GPartEd http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

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[RandomDude2008B]

VERY USEFUL Video! I had to use CloneZilla for the first time, but it was a bit daunting. 10 minutes later, I knew everything that I needed to know to get the job done! Thanks

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@RandomDude2008B Cheers thanks

[MaryJWonder]

When starting Clonezilla did you already had an OS installed before cloning? I am trying to restore a clonezilla image to a drive on virtualbox that the partition is not allocated. Do I have to install an OS to initiate the partition in order to restore the image to my VM?

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@MaryJWonder No you can restore to an empty drive.

The drive you're restoring to has to be equal or larger size than the drive you took the backup from. So just make the Virtualbox Guest drive large enough.

You can the Virtualbox guest to boot from Clonezilla .iso file. Then you can use is as you would on a real system.

[kudalaMangalooru]

Just to test it, I deliberately erased the C drive and tried to restore it with clonezilla image I had created. Took me about 45 minutes. It says imaged was restored successfully but the C drive just doesn't boot at all. I am not even sure where I went wrong. I have tried the whole procedure several times over several days. One thing I did different was to delete the C drive and recreate the partition, using Windows 7 DVD to erase Windows. Any ideas why this is not working? Thanks ~Amar~

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@kudalaMangalooru I think in deleting the partition you lost the boot flag on your C: drive. Does your computer get stuck with a blank screen with some error message like "No Operating System Found"?

A system recovery through Windows 7 install DVD might sort it.

Or download a LiveCD of GPartEd. Using GPartEd you can switch the boot flag back on

[mikemasondotus]

Clonezilla really works great, I've used it for 3 years on XP & 7 from a LiveCD and backing to another partition. If you have a usb drive or flash it will back to it but it wont back to a DVD drive (coming out soon) You can burn the folder to a DVD later from Windows if you like. This is a true bare metal backup, unlike any backup that runs from within Windows.

[suckmybat]

Maybe we could do without the remedial reading??

Just put a link to the website in the video, or in the description, and let us read it at our own rate if we want. I came here for a tutorial, not to be spoonfed an product summary off the developers website.

Thanks for the tutorial though.

[Yorick1989]

How can I install the server version?

[kudalaMangalooru]

Just to test it, I deliberately erased the C drive and tried to restore it with clonezilla image I had created. Took me about 45 minutes. It says imaged was restored successfully but the C drive just doesn't boot at all. I am not even sure where I went wrong. I have tried the whole procedure several times over several days. One thing I did different was to delete the C drive and recreate the partition, using Windows 7 DVD to erase Windows. Any ideas why this is not working? Thanks ~Amar~