 Okay, so welcome back to my YouTube channel. So this is a quick video demonstrating the process of Taking a clone Zilla image of a computer. So this is my desktop down here on the left We have clones illa connected as live USB and we have a external Hard drive up there. So we're just waiting for the computer to start booting When it does we're going to interrupt the normal grub boot sequence My key is to lead for some computers. It's on f8 That'll allow us to manually select Manually select a one-time boot entry by clicking on f8 and I'm going to be able to boot into the It's a sand disk USB. So that's the only reason I remember it. So this is the one This is SDA and it's 240 gigabytes Drive an SSD drive Kingston. That's what we're going to be backing up It contains the Ubuntu. It's got two partitions one was the operating system I think there's a swap partition there as well, but basically once we capture SDA the first drive here. This is a backup. This is backup. And this is Windows This is Windows boot manager. So this is this is how we boot into clone Zilla It gives you a variety of resolutions. I usually just go for the most basic one. So it's not to mess around with it too much. I Can get stuck on this next screen for a little while, so I'm just going to pause the video okay, so clone Zilla is continuing with its boot sequence and Firstly select the language. So that's obviously going to be English Default option here is fine for don't touch the key map This is the key map just for the actually giving the command. So it's basically fine You can at this point start on Zilla or enter a cell environment I'm just going to go for start clone Zilla to be the program now. This is the first important screen It's basically saying do you want to work with? Device to image or device to device now if you do a device to device It's going to literally as it says here work directly from a disk or partition to a disk or partition So it literally copy over the files with all the with all the right Permissions, but it would literally create every single file if you do device to image It's going to take the device in this case our first SSD SDA and it's going to bundle those into a number of images so because I this is just a backup and I might also move this up to the cloud It makes much more sense for me to bundle this use a default option and just scoop out some images here the other options here are For a remote destination so you can actually directly in clone Zilla take a backup and push that up to your most Remote server some kind that you can also you can also start the server on the live USB Those that's the second to last option there. So basically you can use this program directly and you know in real time Move a move a backup up to a remote server. So that's pretty cool But I'm just going to go for the first option, which is device to image Click on okay Now as I said these are so you you have some of the nice options here in terms of where you're going to Put the image and as I said if you look at some of these options, you have an AWS S3 server You have webdav you have NFTS so you can basically and you as and you and you can connect over SSH So if you want to do any of those You can do them But I'm just using my my local device because we're backing up to this trusty one terabyte WD which is hooked up over just a USB connection here. So local. Yes Now it is telling me just gonna click yes here. That's fine It's telling me to put the USB device now It's scanned everything on my computer and just as just as a computer does when it boots and goes into grub It's found that I have One two three four five Is that right? Yeah, there was sorry the fifth one is actually the external WD elements That's the external SSD and the first four are the four partitions on the computer They're all Kingston SDA is as he said my the Linux Partition and backing up or the Linux drive and backing up then we have a backup SDB SDC is another backup I put I actually put my clone Zilla ones internally there when I'm running this internally And then it's 120 gigabytes. So if you're not sure if you all have the same Company like me, they're all Kingston right. You can just look at the At the capacity there you can see 240 240 480 120 So that's fine, and it's captured everything I need so I can just exit out of this control C Now we're gonna drop down to a command prompt and it's just gonna run through this again Now this is your mounting This is where you want to put it so you have to be very very careful here So it says now we need to mount device as home part image So that we can read or read or save the image in home part image So this is basically and as it says here, no, you should not mount a partition You want to back up as some part of it. So this is the destination not the source So it's asking you where it wants to go and of course that would be It's SDF that's the external hard drive it's not And there's only one partition. So this is you have the drive another partition almost There's only one partition on SDF, which is SDF one I know it's my external hard drive just by looking at the capacity here 931 gigabytes and it's an exe for file system and it's an element So I just have to I just take and it's wt elements, which is just the brand name So I just take this very very slowly to make sure because obviously if you mistake destination and source here you run the risk of Basically losing all your data, which would not be fun So I'm going to mount home part image where the backup is going to go on my external hard drive Click okay to get the next screen This is just take a second. It's going to detect what is out what is on the It's on the external hard drive Okay, so it's run and it's had a look at what's on my Wd elements backup drives as you can see here. I've already organized it into a number of folders I have my aw3 buckets. I have already got a full folder for clone zilla backups Some hosting stuff virtual machines, etc So you can if you can just choose to save to the root or you can go to so I'm going to put this in clone zilla backups As I've already set up that folder and then I'm just going to click on done Now you can do browse and you can create a sub folder and then save it in that I'm just going to put this in a root I'm worried about moving it over later. So I'm going to click on done again So now it's just confirming for us That it's going to be putting It's putting home part image onto dev stf1 and the xx4 file system one terabyte use 300 of us And that's where it's going to mount home part image and press enter to confirm so enter Okay, now we get to the next part of the operation. I'm going to click on beginner mode, which is uh, which is more than sufficient Um, it's going to just confirm what we want again Um, if we want to save the local disc as an image or save local partitions as an image If we go for option two as I said, there's two partitions at least on a default linux system Sometimes you can have as many as four Uh, you can just save the entire disc to one image or you can do it by partition I see no advantage in doing it by partition. So I just do just do the disc option and click on okay Now you want to give it a name. So, um, it defaults by default it populates here with, uh, You know, the just a little timestamp here. Um, I usually do it my own. So I just say, uh, home Desktop Um, and I take these about, um, you know every Um, every three to six months or so. So, um, I don't need to go and just kind of put this in 070520 Just so you can see, so just I'm going to save this, uh, directory So this is going to create a directory within the clones of the backups In my wd, um, elements one terabyte external hard drive calls home desktop 070520 And I'm just going to click on okay So now we have told it where it's going to store and now we now we need to know which of our, um, drives We're going to establish a source. So it's saying choke Choose local disk with source. Um, our options are four because obviously we cannot choose the Um, the disk that we're backing up to the destination as a source So as I said my, uh, the Linux partition I'm backing up is on sda So I'm just going to click on literally the spacebar um, in order to Mark and you can see the asterisk just populated there. So that marks as sda as our source device and just to confirm again Take this slowly. It's a 240 gigabytes. Uh, kingston drive And yes, that is the one I want. Um, before this I went into accessories Discs in linux and ubuntu Uh, even though I know I've done this, you know, 20 times every single time I just make sure that I'm backing up the right disk, um, that it's on sda because as I said the part is the Potential for this is to literally ruin destroy all your data. So you have to be very very careful. So click on okay, and there's a little, um Cursor, so it'll just work work again for a second Okay, so at the next screen, it's going to do a couple of final checks. Um, you can run an sfck That is to check the integrity of the file system Um Before um, I I do this I prefer to do this separately. So the default option is s fsck which is skipping the fsck is a low level of command line interfaces to check The basic integrity of the file system. So you can run it You can also run an fsck minus y which is a very very dangerous command It will forcibly attempt to repair old blocks, but in doing so you can uh, you can really ruin a disk So the default option sf sfck is What probably most people will want to do Um, and you can also check if the disk image is restoreable. So the default option is yes Um, that'll just to run through quickly to make sure that your Backup can actually be used to restore which is obviously if it can't it's kind of worthless So, uh, sometimes to be honest to save time. I actually skipped this. I trusted it's done a good job I'm going to go for yes on this occasion. Um And you can also encrypt the image. Uh, the default is not to encrypt or you can do encryption. So, um, You know, if you're storing this locally, um, you might want to encrypt this. Um, and if you're putting it on on the cloud Or you can do the encryption later before you push it up somewhere As opposed to doing it on the fly. So I'm not going to encrypt this backup. Um, I'm just going to go for the okay option Finally you can select what to do when the utility's done its job Um So I'm just going to do choose or you can automatically shut down and if you do shut down you just need You know, I'm just going to do shut down so I can just see that when the screen is turned off Um, the backup is generated. That's it click on okay Um, and now we're ready. We're ready to go basically. Um, it gives you Also the commands if you want to go into go into advanced mode in the future Um, and export this you can literally copy the command that all this kind of low level GUI generated for us So you can see all the various options I put in here power off minus sfck all the operators Including the backup name are literally spelled out there. So you could just uh Um, as it says the command is also saved as this file for later use if necessary And you can check there and uh, if you want to just run that this is going to expedite running the same backups over and over again Uh, press enter to continue enter to continue Um, and that's basically it you'll get one final confirmation And this is this is where you should do your very very final check because this is the last moment that you have to Uh, to check everything is correct before you go ahead and run this. So just double just triple checking. Um We are backing up, um sda over here containing two partitions a little sda 1512 Uh, boot partition Uh in v5 format and a larger 223 ext and yes sda is where my Ubuntu is and we're mounting this to home part image So it's going to create a um That's uh directory in the clonezilla backup folder that we looked at in uh in this external hard drive And that's it. Click yes to run yes to run and um Now it's in progress. So once you get to the screen, it's running. Um, This the very very first block that will run will be that uh, that small Uh, so don't get too excited. It was only uh, it was only a tiny file system Um, and the longer process will be backing up um Backing up the actual main partition So, um, you can see some some statistics here once it's going to get to the second partition We'll get a more accurate idea. It'll get a more accurate idea of how long it's actually going to take to run um, it's not particularly long if you're looking at a you know, if you're looking at a ext4 file system of you know 220 it also depends on uh, of course the, um Whether you're you know, whether your external hard drive is connected over usb 3 or usb 2 The data transfer speeds on usb 3 are obviously quicker um So this cabling i'm looking at my extent and i'm hoping it's uh usb 3 But in any event it shouldn't take more than 10 or 15 minutes just to generate the whole backup process here So we've moved on from the first stage. Um, that initial uh partition there We're actually running the main one so you can see now That it is running this backup at eight gigabits gigabytes per minute Um, and it's just kind of here calculating the elapsed time and the total remaining time you can see Is building at the moment it's in the region of like I'd say probably half an hour You have your total date total, uh, block process and your total block process over here It's all right total data block and total block in percentages in their buildings. I'm just going to again pause the video And uh, we will just take a quick look once this has completely finished running Um, just to verify that the that the backup has been created correctly Okay, so just to finish off the uh, demonstration of clonzilla working to Uh, back up the um and a drive an ssd drive on my my linux drive So basically the process ran took about 20 minutes in total to get that on to the external Uh, wd element. So i'm now in uh in in my desktop and i'm just going to now connect the drive So give it a second to recognize If it does i'm just spinning up And if we see we have the clones of the backups, uh folder that i created here And uh, this is the uh, this is the the process that ran the desktop 070520 Um, and as you can see, um, that's basically how it looks. So in terms of size Uh, just using this It is 68 gigabytes and uh, it's an image. So basically it has um, you know, it's broken the Uh, the entire drive into these various images and I went through the restore process That took an additional 15 minutes approximately to run on this, uh On this image. So in total probably a 45 minute process. So if you are in a rush, uh, that's about how long this takes to To back up a 225 gigabit, uh, but it produced 68 uh 68 gigabytes in roughly in terms of the actual images that it saves onto this Thanks for watching. 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