Clonezilla testimonials

Aurélien Gasser

Location: Paris, France.

I spent 40mins, including discovering, installing and using Clonezilla : my disk is cloned and working.     ^TOP^   "I'm not used to saying that, but that's probably the best piece of software i ever used. Simple, efficient, providing the solution to my problem, saving me probably several days of work. I'd give a special mention to the text interface, question-answer-like, which took me straight to where i wanted to go. i spent 40mins, including discovering, installing and using Clonezilla : my disk is cloned and working. Congratz guys." -- Aurélien Gasser, Paris, France. 24, Apr, 2010.

Wes Kennedy

Location: Tampa Bay area, FL, USA.

Now we can image any PC within our 25 subnets at 20 different offices without traveling to their location.     ^TOP^   "I work for a large Health Care company who has around 1700 desktops in our HomeCare division and more than 500 laptops for our nurses. The nurses often manage to mess up the laptops by using them for much more than work so we often have to re-image them. We recently had to image 173 HP Mini’s to distribute to our nurses. Our old procedure would have taken us about 2 months of constant work to get them prepared, so I decided to go out and find a better solution. I built a CloneZilla server based on Fedora 10 and I alone imaged the 173 laptops in 3 days. The only reason it wasn’t any faster was because I didn’t have the physical space to set up more laptops at once for the multicast image. The bonus of having the CloneZilla server is now we can image any PC within our 25 subnets at 20 different offices without traveling to their location. Clonezilla allows us to image from a Samba share!" -- Wes Kennedy, FL, USA. 04 Mar, 2010.

Juergen Chiu

Location: Taipei, Taiwan.

Clonezilla helps me a lot in system backup, recovery and ISO image creating     ^TOP^   "In my job, I need to handle different type of system and create the ISO image for customers. Your great tool, Clonezilla, helps me a lot in system backup, recovery and ISO image creating. I only need to download the Clonezilla zip file, and create the bootable usb key in few easy steps, then I can use that key to backup the systems and create the ISO image by the same key. And the key is just the recovery partition as I need. All procedures take me only about 1 hour to finish all stuffs. I love your tool and that is really cover all functions what I need to have in Linux system recovery scope. Clonezilla is the best all-in-one tool that I have never seen before." -- Juergen Chiu, Canonical Ltd. 18 Dec, 2009.

King Beetle

Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Developers, thanks for a great tool!!     ^TOP^   "After downloading the ISO, verifying the checksum and burning the ISO to a 200MB mini CD (I love those things!), I booted the Live CD, stepped through the simple menus, and within 15 minutes had completely cloned my Wolvix install on the new drive. A quick edit to GRUB's menu.lst file to point to the install on the new drive, and an edit to /etc/fstab to move the filesystem root and swap to the new drive, and my existing install was now up and running on the new hard drive. After some testing to make sure everything was working properly, I deleted the Wolvix and swap partitions completely from the old 7GB drive. The entire operation took less than an hour." -- King Beetle, Sep, 24, 2009. For more info, please check King's blog. or this forum.

Rad

Location: Newport Beach, California, USA

Clonezilla = Best Free Hard Disk Drive Backup Solution     ^TOP^   "Perhaps I should interject by saying that, regarding the NOT-free solutions, I've found that Ghost, along with Image-for-Windows to be the best for-co$t disk-cloning tools. (By 'best' I mean » most reliable.) Ghost is also way faster than any other cloning product I've demo'ed .. if speed is important to you. Lots of people also like True Image, but I had problems with it. (Errors I couldn't resolve.) But what if you can't afford those apps? Then what? We still need an industrial-strength (nuclear-grade) backup tool. Enter Clonezilla. (Standing ovation.)" -- Rad, May, 02, 2009. For more info, please check Rad's blog.

John Sun

Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Clonezilla is an excellent program     ^TOP^   "Thank you so much for publishing Clonezilla. It works flawlessly. I manage about 100 computers of various models and setup. I have used Clonezilla for about 2 months; saving imaging of harddrives and using the images to rebuild computers. It has saved me tens of hours already in rebuilding computers. Thanks again." -- John Sun, May, 09, 2009.

William Hinsch

Location: Columbia, SC, USA

Clonezilla makes new school lab     ^TOP^   "My daughter attends a private school that operates on an extremely tight budget in order for more parents to be able to afford that school as an option. Recently, a generous donor made it possible to get new low-end computers without software. We set up one master system with Edubuntu and customized it for the school lab. As part of the setup, I needed to not only clone that system to the 19 other systems, but to provide a very simple process for the teachers to be able to restore computers to that image as needed. After evaluating several options, Clonezilla stood out as the easiest and most reliable solution. I was easily able to teach others how to restore systems (the image fits easily on a 2 GB thumb drive), and everyone who has used it is impressed with its speed and ease of use. I thank you, the teachers thank you, and the kids using these computers thank you for making this product freely available." -- William Hinsch, Jan/26/2009.

Steffen Maisch

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Thanks a lot!     ^TOP^   "Your Clonezilla program did everything, the commercial programs I had couldn't do. Last week it cloned my Vista installation on a much faster (Velociraptor), but marginally smaller harddisk. None of the other programs were able to downsize a partition. Today it cloned the harddisk of one of my laptops without formatting the new one first. This wouldn't have worked otherwise either, because it wasn't "seen" when being unformatted in an usb case." -- Steffen Maisch , Nov/18/2008.

Mark Binner

Location: Manchester, England.

Clone 20 PCs with a 16GB image using multicasting in 55 minutes.     ^TOP^   "Until recently my department used to use Powerquest DeployCenter (quite an old version) for cloning PCs. However, we bought some new Dell 131L laptops with 64-bit processors and the software just doesn't work any more - the laptops just 'hang'. Our manager decided it would be best to buy a hard disk duplicating machine but they are very expensive. With my colleagues I had to install and clone 60 PCs at a school. Thirty of the PCs were Dell desktop machines and thirty were the 131L laptops. The desktop PCs worked OK with the Powerquest software but I persuaded my colleagues to let me try to build a DRBL server because we didn't really want to remove all the hard drives and copy them one at a time in another PC. I had been testing Clonezilla Live CD and was very impressed with the speed and reliability, so I thought using DRBL would be good too. None of us knows much about Linux but the instructions online were good enough to allow us to build a DRBL server using a spare Dell PC and Fedora 6. Well, what can I say? My colleagues and I were delighted by the success of cloning with the DRBL server. We were able to clone 20 PCs with a 16GB image using multicasting in 55 minutes. That is very impressive indeed. Can you imagine how it would have been trying to copy disk-to-disk individually? A nightmare, I think.It's absolutely fantastic to use. It is more powerful and flexible than anything else that I know of; I've done a lot of research looking for a solution to our cloning problem. I like that you can choose to shut down, reboot or rename PCs after cloning - very clever! " -- Mark Binner. May/28/2007.

Barny Sanchez

Location: Information Systems Security, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Cloned 1084 systems with DRBL.     ^TOP^   "So far I have cloned 1084 systems with DRBL. I followed carefully the advise from the website, and using multicasting plus dividing the amount of systems in groups of 80-100 PCs at the time, it has taken me somewhere from 16-38 minutes each turn, using images for various operating systems, averaging 1GB in size. This has reduced the recovery/cloning factor from the previous commercial solution I had, for more than 500%, so you could only imagine how happy my project managers are :-)." -- Barny Sanchez. 06/Oct/2007.

Dave Haakenhout

Location: National Computer Centre Wonen, Netherlands

Clone 3 GB image to 27 machines, the average speed is 2.4 GB/min.     ^TOP^   The layout for the Clonezilla environment is listed here. 12/Apr/2007 PS. Some related photos.

Kristian Hermansen

Location: Boston, MA, USA.

Clone 5 GB image to 64 machines in 5 minutes.     ^TOP^   "I used Clonezilla in the design of our Cisco Computational Cloud cluster to multicast a 5GB disk image to 64 machines simultaneously. And I did it all in under five minutes! Thanks Clonezilla!!!" -- Kristian Erik Hermansen, Cisco Systems. 11/Sep/2007. PS. A related talk can be found in http://kristian-hermansen.com/clonezilla/ubuntu-live-2007-clonezilla-kristian-erik-hermansen.html.