Attack of the Backup: Clonezilla Linux Rampages Over Disaster Recovery

“Disaster recovery and backups are the “eat your vegetables” of
the IT world. Most folks just don’t get excited about backups, or
do it often enough. Buck the trend with Clonezilla, a Linux
distribution that makes it dead easy to clone and restore
systems.

“Clonezilla is similar to Norton Ghost, but it’s free software
(GPL) and it’s good for cloning Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX
systems — to name just a few. It supports a ton of
filesystems, and will resort to direct (dd) copying for filesystems
it doesn’t support.

“Imaging vs. Backups

“Clonezilla images your system — which means that it
basically takes a complete snapshot of your filesystem as-is. This
has some advantages and disadvantages.”

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