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    Linux disk/partition clone tool?

    I have used Acronis True Image for a while to make back up images of installs. I did try linux equivalents ie partimage but they were never as polished as Acronis and suffered the classic linux app problem of showing promise and then development stopped. IIRC partimage never added ext4 support.

    Is there a good linux equivalent to Acronis?
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    Re: Linux disk/partition clone tool?

    Is Acronis True Image not Platform independent? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...oning_software

    Have you tried Clonezilla?
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      Re: Linux disk/partition clone tool?

      It's platform independent in the sense that it will clone non-windows partitions. However, it's a windows program. It appears you can make a bootable CD but you have to run windows to create it.

      It doesn't appear dead though - they have a 2012 release on the website.

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        Re: Linux disk/partition clone tool?

        Clonezilla is very good.
        What is Clonezilla?

        You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®. The problem with these kind of software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!

        Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partclone and udpcast, allows you to do 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. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!

        Features:
        • Free (GPL) Software.
        • Filesystem supported: (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, (2) FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS+ of Mac OS, (4) UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and (5) VMFS3/4 of VMWare ESX. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows, Intel-based Mac OS, and FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, no matter it's 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.
        • LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.
        • Grub (version 1 and version 2) is supported.
        • Unattended mode is supported. Almost all steps can be done via commands and options. You can also use a lot of boot parameters to customize your own imaging and cloning.
        • Multicast is supported in Clonezilla SE, which is suitable for massively clone. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.
        • The image file can be on local disk, ssh server, samba server, or NFS server.
        • Based on Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to image or clone a partition.
        • However, Clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.


        By using another free software drbl-winroll, which is also developed by us, the hostname, group, and SID of cloned MS windows machine can be automatically changed.
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          Re: Linux disk/partition clone tool?

          There are several very easy options.

          Partimage
          cp
          dd
          Clonezilla

          See:

          http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Oneiric#...p_and_Recovery

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            Re: Linux disk/partition clone tool?

            +1 for Clonezilla. I have used it for a while now without problems.
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