Thus, its operation could be file system-agnostic.
Features Block-level copying Ĭlonezilla can operate on block-level (sector by sector). It uses Partclone, Ntfsclone, Partimage, or dd to image the drive either over the network or to a locally-attached hard disk drive. The preinstallation environment can be booted from a USB flash drive, CD/DVD-ROM or Android mobile phone. It is intended to support a bare-metal deployment of an operating systems by booting from a preinstalled live environment. It integrates several other open-source programs to provide cloning and imaging capabilities.Ĭlonezilla works by copying used blocks on the storage device (i.e. Ĭlonezilla is used to deploy operating systems to computers by imaging a single computer and then deploying that image to one or more systems. Clonezilla was designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan. Clonezilla Server Edition uses multicast technologies to deploy a single image file to a group of computers on a local area network. net /projects /clonezilla /files /clonezilla _live _stable /Įnglish, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)ĭisk cloning, disk imaging, system deploymentĬlonezilla is an open-source suite of disk cloning, disk imaging and system deployment utilities.
