Outline

• Introduction to Clonezilla, 5 mins
• Create a Clonezilla bootable media, 5 mins
• Disk Imaging, 10 mins
• Disk Cloning, 5 mins
• Advanced Features
• Unattended mode, 10 mins
• Massive deployment with multicast or bittorrent mode, 15 mins
• Hands-on, Q&A, 10 mins

Create a Clonezilla bootable media

• CD
• Download Clonezilla live iso file
• Burn it on a CD
• USB flash drive
• Download Clonezilla live zip file
• Prepare a USB flash drive with vFAT partition (~500 MB)
• Unzip clonezilla zip file to the vFAT partiton of USB flash drive, e.g.,
• unzip clonezilla-live-3.2.1-9-amd64.zip -d /media/disk/
• If for legacy BIOS, run makeboot.sh, e.g.,
• sudo bash /media/disk/util/linux/makeboot.sh /dev/sda1

System schematic

Disk imaging

• Save an image
• https://clonezilla.org//fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image
• Restore an image
• https://clonezilla.org//fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/02_Restore_disk_image

Disk Cloning

• Disk to disk cloning
• https://clonezilla.org//fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone

Unattended mode

• Using boot parameters to make that
• https://clonezilla.org//fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/05_Preseed_options_to_do_job_after_booting
• Demo: the edited grub.cfg Commands or hints:

  unzip clonezilla-live-3.2.1-9-amd64.zip -d zip
  cd zip
  edit boot/grub/grub.cfg (e.g., vim boot/grub/grub.cfg)
  xorriso -as mkisofs -R -r -J -joliet-long -l -cache-inodes -iso-level 3 -isohybrid-mbr /usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isohdpfx.bin -partition_offset 16 -A 'Clonezilla live CD' -b syslinux/isolinux.bin -c syslinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -eltorito-alt-boot --efi-boot boot/grub/efi.img -isohybrid-gpt-basdat -isohybrid-apm-hfsplus ./ > /tmp/clonezilla-live.iso 
  

• The boot parameters of Clonezilla live
• https://clonezilla.org//fine-print-live-doc.php?path=./clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc/00_live-boot-parameters.doc#00_live-boot-parameters.doc

Massive deployment

• Massive deployment normally requires
• A server
• Installation and setup
• Extra storage to keep the image repository
• Massive deployment straight from the source machine
• No extra server is required
• No installation
• No extra storage device is required

Massive deployment

Massive deployment schematic

• Massive deployment from an image
• Take multicast mechanism as an example
• https://clonezilla.org//fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/11_lite_server
• Massive deployment straight from the source machine
• Take bittorrent mechanism as a example
• https://clonezilla.org//fine-print-live-doc.php?path=clonezilla-live/doc/12_lite_server_BT_from_dev

Hands-on

• It’s recommended to use virtual machines for testing
• E.g., Virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org)
• Give it a try. If any questions, please ask.
• On site Clonezilla booth
• Please go to Clonezilla booth at Hall 1
• After FOSSASIA 2025
• Please ask online: https://clonezilla.org