Clonezilla Live 2.6.3-7 - USB

Version 2.6.3-7 Release Date: September 17, 2019

NOTE: This distro comes on a 16GB USB Flash Drive. Please ensure that your system has USB 2.0 + ports before ordering. Clonezilla will come on a name brand USB flash drive. We use Kingston, Adata, PNY, or SanDisk USBs.

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 2.6.3-7

ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES from 2.6.2-15

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2019/Sep/03).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.2.9-2.
• Partclone was updated to 0.3.13+git0819-2f1830e-drbl1.
• Remove zfs-fuse since it's too old. The support for zfs mounting using openzfs can be found in Ubuntu-based Clonezilla live >= 20190903 releases.
• Package partclone-utils was updated with new upstream on Aug/29/2019: https://github.com/prekageo/partclone-utils
• Modify parameters about BT in drbl-ocs.conf: Use gen-torrent-from-ptcl (ezio-ptcl) to create torrent file from torrent.info, not using transmission-create anymore. This could save a lot of time when the source image is big.
• Remove "-t 3 -k 60" from ezio_seeder_opt, i.e., keep ezio seeder in the server all the time until it's killed by ocs-live-feed-img stop.
• Add a new sample program custom-ocs-3.

BUG FIXES

• Package live-tools was updated to 20190627. The issue about poweroff/reboot should have been fixed: failed to execute shutdown binary freezing execution.
• Add thin-provisioning-tools in drbl/clonezilla live packages list, and device-mapper-persistent-data in the PKG_TO_QUERY of drbl.conf. Thanks to Tseng Wynn (wynn1212 _at_ gmail com) for reporting this bug.
• Fix a typo in zh_TW.UTF-8. Thanks to Chih-Hsuan Yen: https://gitlab.com/stevenshiau/drbl/merge_requests/12
• Avoid torrent.info created by Partclone being included in the torrent file. This should solve the issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_server_edition/thread/15c3efbffa and https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/aba35adf97
• Separate 32-bit and 64-bit syslinux when running makeboot.sh. Thanks to Martin Mokrejs for reporting this issue. Ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/bugs/326/
• Update the mechanism to generate new machine-id for restored GNU/Linux. Thanks to Peter Sun for reporting the issue and providing the solution.
• Add option -iui for ocs-onthefly, and implement the ocs-update-initrd for restored GNU/Linux.
• Bug fixed: the source IP address for disk to remote disk was not shown in the source (server) side when there is one NIC configured.

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.