Clonezilla Live 3.0.1-8 - USB

Version 3.0.1-8 Release Date: June 22, 2022

What is Clonezilla?

Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. With some high-end hardware in a 42-node cluster, a multicast restoring at rate 8 GB/min was reported.

Whats new in 3.0.1-8

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 3.0.0-26

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Jun/12).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.18.5-1.
• Add packages ngrep, duf, duff and dfc in the live system.
• Add more options in boot parameters to be parsed, including: extra_pbzip2_opt, extra_lbzip2_opt, extra_plzip_opt, extra_lz4mt_opt, and extra_xz_opt. Thanks to ottokang for this request.
• Update live-boot as 1:20220505.drbl1, and jfbterm 0.4.7-49.drbl2 (sync the version number with that of Fedora).
• The option --rsyncable of zstd causes bad performance. It can be 5 times slower for v1.4.x, and worse for v1.5.2. Hence by default we do not use it, and use zstd 1.5.2 again in this release. Ref: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/3150
• Support more wired NIC device types of name in ocs-live-netcfg. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/6026cbd187/

BUG FIXES

• Do not let sudo to spawn pseudo-terminal when running a job. Otherwise ocs-live-run-menu will be run twice, and it will make the console weird. Thanks to ottokang for reporting this issue. Ref: https://groups.google.com/g/ocs-clonezilla/c/tB93Vjz9CVw
• Replace buggy /usr/share/terminfo/j/jfbterm from ncurses-term. Thanks to ottokang for reporting this issue.

Minimum System Requirements for Clonezilla live:

• X86 or x86-64 processor
• 196 MB of system memory (RAM)
• Boot device, e.g. CD/DVD Drive, USB port, PXE, or hard drive

Limitations:

• The destination partition must be equal or larger than the source one.
• Differential/incremental backup is not implemented yet.
• Online imaging/cloning is not implemented yet. The partition to be imaged or cloned has to be unmounted.
• Due to the image format limitation, the image can not be explored or mounted. You can _NOT_ recovery single file from the image. However, you still have workaround to make it, read this.
• Recovery Clonezilla live with multiple CDs or DVDs is not implemented yet. Now all the files have to be in one CD or DVD if you choose to create the recovery iso file.