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Is Clonezilla still a solid choice for complete backup and restoration of partition(s) / drive(s) nowadays? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My dear lemmings,

I discovered Clonezilla a while ago and it still is my main tool to backup and restore the partitions I care about on my computers.

I cannot help but wonder if there are now better, more efficient alternatives or is it still a solid choice? There's nothing wrong with it, I'm just curious about others' practices and habits — and if there was newer tools or solutions available.

Thank you for your feedback, and keep your drives safe!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's definitely a beast at the best of times, but the scriptability is great.

Just a few weeks ago I used it to deploy a custom Win10 image to several hundred computers in a very heterogenous environment in lite-server mode (basically PXE with extra steps). It took three of us sysadmins several days to figure out why it wasn't working, several more to write a script that could handle every scenario. Some computers had SATA SSDs, some NVMe, some both, some SSD+HDD, the block device names (sda, sdb...) were never consistent, and some reported its HDDs to sysfs as SSDs. I ended up dissecting the ISO and came up with a solution that only required a single Enter key to start and did everything else automatically.