Clonezilla Live 2.8.1-12 - USB

Version 2.8.1-12 Release Date: January 8, 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 2.8.1-12

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.8.0-27

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Jan/03).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.15.5-2.
• Language files ca_ES, de_DE, es_ES, fr_FR, hu_HU, ja_JP, pl_PL and sk_SK were updated.
• By default do not split the image file of a partition, i.e., use "-i 0" when saving an image by ocs-sr. If the image repo is FAT, VOL_LIMIT_IN_INTERACTIVE will be set as 4096 when running ocs-sr in saving mode.
• boot-local-efi.cfg: Improved to detect hd1, hd2... 

BUG FIXES

• update-efi-nvram-boot-entry: bug fixed for 2 or more ESPs on the same machine, unmount should be done within for loop.
• ocs-prep-cache: ignore the 1st 2 columns in /proc/partitions when comparing it for the cache files, since partprobe might change the major and minor numbers in /proc/partitions, while the blocks and device names (3rd & 4th columns) will remain the same after partprobe is run.
• ocs-get-dev-info: better way to run dislocker-find so that when it failed to load some lib, it won't show the device's fs is bitlocker.
• Force to use syslinux/isolinux 6.03. Do not mix that with 6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3+b1 from Debian repo.
• Support dracut from CentOS 6 which exists in different path and no option"--tmpdir" for the restored CentOS 6.

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.