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What is the "-rescue" function of Clonezilla and when should I use it?

When running Clonezilla on a NTFS-drive with bad sectors the cloning is interrupted and I get a suggestion from Clonezilla to use the -rescue option to save as much as possible from the damaged drive. ...
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Clone a Linux partition to a new SSD and keep both partitions in GRUB

I have the following disks and partitions: sda 8:0 0 238,5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 16M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 174,5G 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 529M 0 part └─sda4 8:4 0 63,...
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Can’t set up 4K resolution on new PC after cloning Linux Kubuntu SSD from laptop with Clonezilla

SOLVED! THE REAL PROBLEM WAS MY HARDWARE: I tried running Kubuntu in a live environment through my USB and I had the same problem (and in the windows setup then as well, but I didn't notice). After ...
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How do I image a LUKS system disk with Clonezilla without including all the empty space?

I have a 1 TB NVMe disk with Ubuntu 22 installed with vanilla options, except I used LVM, and enabled LUKS. I'd like to image the disk for easy restores. Simply backing up the files is not enough for ...
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clonezilla:Failed to use partclone program to save or restore an image!

When I was using the clonezilla-live-20220502-jammy-amd64 version of clonezilla for a linux system backup, the following error occurred. When I executed the e2fsck -f /dev/mmcblk0p2 command and backed ...
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Boot problem after cloning

Guess this is the first time I post a question here. Have been playing with Linux and VMware servers for more than 10 years now. Lately I decided to move my focus on Debian desktops and ProxMox (again)...
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boot user's personal system from NFS

In my university we have a computer room with PCs with Linux installed. At the login the user's home directory is mounted over NFS using login credentials. I know that it is possible to boot the ...
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Safest way to clone OS disk besides dd and Clonezilla

I would like to clone my OS drive, to a same/larger disk. And I will do this periodically. On Windows I use AOEMI Partition Assistant to clone disks. The GUI is very good and idiot-proof. However, ...
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How to set Clonezilla to clone only a partition

I have been trying to clone my Debian /dev/sda1 partition containing /root with size of 100GB using Clonezilla. I did this by using Clonezilla-live to create iso file with size around 18 GB. It seems ...
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Passing a boot menu option to GRUB on a Live USB drive?

I have an ubuntu system, and I want to have a semi-automated way of running a clonezilla unattended image / re-image from a USB drive. To that end, I've modified the GRUB menu items to be along these ...
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Restore lost bootloader on a luks partition

I need an advice about a bad situation. I was installing a new linux ditro by using my main PC. I booted with the ISO and then installed the distro on /dev/sdc, which was an external USB drive. My bad,...
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Can I use Clonezilla to backup and restore a bootable USB volume?

I have this external USB HDD that I've installed Lubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 on as a dual boot. They are portable installations that I can take around with me and use on a variety of computers and ...
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lvextend -l 100%FREE isn't working

I had an old, small SSD, so I bought a new, bigger one. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, LUKS. With CloneZilla, I cloned it to an IMG file from the old SSD, then restored the IMG file to the new SSD. Question: ...
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Can I restore a single partition from a Clonezilla disk image?

I was thinking of performing a Clonezilla backup and was wondering what backup mode to choose. Generally speaking, Clonezilla offers the following backup options: savedisk: Save a full disk image ...
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CENTOS 7 disk cloned from image won't boot. Need new BIOS?

I'm trying to make my brand-new HP Z4G4 workstation boot to CENTOS 7 from its SSD drive, but after it indicated which kernel it's using, spins its wheel, and shows its faint "7" on the ...
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Clonezilla generates disk clone with wrong/unupdated UUIDs

[original question in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73959107/clonezilla-generates-disk-clone-with-wrong-unupdated-uuids] I recently used clonezilla (disk-to-disk) - both stable and alternative ...
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Clone functionality for APFS

2022 UPDATE: Clonezilla supports the APFS file system I understand that Clonezilla does not list APFS as a supported file system. It is important to me to be able to create a clone back of a disk so ...
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How to create a bootable Ubuntu hard disk from an image of an Ubuntu partition?

I had a dual boot SSD with Windows 7 (on primary) and Ubuntu 18.04 (on extended partition). I needed to delete the Windows partition so as to let Ubuntu use the entire HDD. Since Ubuntu was on the ...
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Clonezilla - What is going on when it says 'Syncing...'

I have booted clonezilla live done a partition-to-partition copy to copy between a 5400rpm HDD into unpartitioned space on a new SSD (both connected via sata). It took over 12.5 hours to copy 100GB. ...
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Failed to use partClone program to save or restore an image

I want to clone a Windows partition of a dual booted laptop which doesn't boot anymore as described in the following link. I don't know why but I can't clone a partition with Clonezilla. I only have ...
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Is ddrescue/dd cloning compatible with GPT/UEFI boot?

I used ddrescue many times for failing HDDs with MBR partition tables. It always worked perfectly and if the failing HDD was bootable, the clone booted, too. Now I have a possibly failing SSD, but ...
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Clonezilla: is it possible to clone AWS EBS?

I need to decrease the size of bootable EBS in AWS, I tried to rsync all data to another bootable drive (clearing everything before) but after that I can not boot it (empty log from EC2 dashboard and ...
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Stuck in emergency mode after cloning my system with clonezilla

I cloned my installation from a 240GB SATA SSD to a 500GB NVMe SSD using Clonezilla. The cloning was completed successfully, except for a failure with initrd (unfortauntely I don't remember the ...
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clonezilla shell: update-initramfs is disabled, do i need to chroot and How? (External SSD)

I want to clone my laptop to an External HDD. I need to make an important precision: the process is successfull when i'm using mecanic HDD (old laptop). i use clonezilla to clone i go to clonezilla ...
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Mounting SSD on Debian Bullseye

I'm trying to use a USB-port connected SSD (external SSD) for my Linux home directory, and am encountering several strange behaviors. I am using ssh to connect to the machine. I'm running Debian from ...
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How to use bash command substitution in grub for clonezilla postrun?

I am in the process of configuring unattended backup with grub and Clonezilla Live image. Auto-mounting the image target dir works, and so does the backup itself. But with ocs_postrun, I would like to ...
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How to fix "Failed to mount root filesystem - failed to open /dev/console" in RedHat after Cloning Disk

After cloning my HDD by Norton Ghost to a new one, I moved the new disk to new PC (with different hardware). In the new PC , I see this message at boot, as you see in this screenshot: What exactly is ...
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Clonezilla Backup: Zeroing out unused space APFS SSD

Context: MacOS Big Sur APFS SSD. Is there a command to zero out unused SSD space and verify that the unused space is zeroed? I ask because many times files are not erased when they are deleted: they ...
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Dual boot USB (or alternative) with clonezilla and gparted?

My objective: create imaging resource on bootable USB drive (256 GB) which will contain finalized laptop configuration. This is to say, I want to boot from the flash drive and use the same flash drive ...
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How do I make a bootable USB stick with Clonezilla manually, using a zip (not ISO)?

I want to make a bootable USB stick with Clonezilla. I'll edit some things to use the preseed functions, and therefore want to be able to edit files on the stick. Earlier I've printed the Clonezilla ...
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Issues running an automatic and unattended clonezilla restore drive

When I try to run an automated and unattended restore via Clonezilla it returns the following error: Now run "ocs_prerun": mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt... Mount: /mnt: special device /dev/sdb2 does ...
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Why does my dd Full Disk Copy Keep failing at 8 GB?

I am trying to clone a 500 GB SSD to a 1TB SSD. For some reason, it keeps failing when the data being copied reaches 8GB. This is the third 1TB SSD I've tried this on and they all get stuck at the ...
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Clonezilla pxe boot via uefi

I've succesfully setup Clonezilla boot on my Centos 7 PXE server legacy mode, but when I tried to get UEFI PXE working, I got stuck and it doesn't boot at all. I am using similar settings to launch it ...
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Will Clonezilla ignore my swapfile when saving a disk?

I have a PC with 32GBs of RAM running Linux Mint 20. As per instructions found here (which were meant for 19, but appear to work for 20), I have increased my swapfile to just a little larger than my ...
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Can I remove the Clonezilla USB media while it is running?

I booted the Clonezilla live image from a USB stick and am currently in the proces of cloning my internal HDD from it. If this was a normal Debian live USB, taking out the USB stick during operation ...
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How to increase LVM when using LUKS2 on Debian Buster

I'm running Debian Buster on a ThinkPad T420 which is equipped with a 250 GB SSD. Since I needed more disk space I used Clonezilla to clone my current Debian installation from the internal 250 GB SSD ...
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Clonezilla restoring to a different partition

After a crash on my hard drive, I had to start from scratch. I reorganized the different systems and their appropriate partitions. I had the required partitions and their sizes set up.  The only ...
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"Timed out waiting for device..." after disk clone with correct UUIDs

I've just cloned an SSD to a larger SSD but I'm unable to run any of my 2 linux instalations (Windows is fine). When booting, I get this errors: [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/...
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How to optimally copy a read-protected Clonezilla disk image?

Only the root user appears to have access to read the image data (plain text files in the archive have lower level of permissions). I want to transfer the backup archive in an identical form to avoid ...
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How to mount bzip2-ed Clonezilla image without using extra drive space?

My hard drive seems to be failing and I suspect some data may be already damaged, so I decided to make an entire drive backup with Clonezilla using dd. I have chosen bzip2 compression to fit entire ...
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overlayfs: missing 'workdir' on CloneZilla start

I would clone my partition /dev/sda1 on Ubuntu 14.04. I've downloaded Clonezilla in order to clone this partition and be able to reinstall it later. As recommended on the CloneZilla's website, I used ...
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Restored encrypted LUKS drive with CloneZilla makes system non-bootable

As the title says, I've made a backup of my system before sending my laptop for tech repairs, my system was encrypted and I used CloneZilla's beginner mode so as to not mess anything up. I received my ...
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Can we know which logical blocks are in used without understanding the filesystem running on top?

From this FAQ: Why Clonezilla can NOT restore an image which is saved from a large drive to a smaller drive? Any workaround? It's not easy to implement such a feature, since Clonezilla now is a ...
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Clonezilla clone won't boot without reinstalling grub2

I've taken a clone of a machine with the following partitions: Device Type Label /dev/sda /dev/sda1 Ext4 boot /dev/sda2 Linux LVM ...
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Clone and restore a Opensuse linux on another physical machine

I have a Opensuse Linux installed and all application/database configured. This Linux has no GUI, only command prompt. Now we want to create an image of this installation so that we can set it up on ...
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grub2win isoboot CloneZilla LiveCD unable to find a medium containing a live file system

Help, please. I've got: Win10 Pro. With legacy bios bootloader. Installed grub2win bootloader. Added menu entry isoboot CloneZilla LiveCD. iso-file situated on local disk with NTFS file system. Menu ...
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Clonezilla fails to clone to smaller disk

I am using clonezilla to clone disk from an SDcard (raspberry pi sd card running OMV5 OS) to another SD card. Now, I have resized via Gparted the SD card from being 32gb to approx 10gb, rebooted RPi ...
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MX Linux 19: Clonezilla fails w/ error "syntax error near unexpected token `<"

I've created an MX-Linux 19 LiveUSB with Clonezilla (ver. 3.27.16-3) installed by Synaptic Package Manager from the MX Linux repository, which I then remastered. The remastered LiveUSB passed several ...
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LiveUSB with CLONEZILLA and GPARTED : Which Distro?

I need to find a stable distro which has, on its LiveUSB, both Clonezilla and Gparted, for Ubuntu 18.04 does not. Which LiveUSBs would have both?
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CentOS 8: Clonezilla image fails to boot when applied

Imaging CentOS 8 with Clonezilla consistently fails to make an image I can successfully replay onto a different drive and boot from. I downloaded the CentOS installation ISO and verified it with ...