Re: [Clonezilla-live] Why clonezilla sucks

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 12/3/2010 12:04 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>
>> It's only a win if you don't use any of the other Clonezilla/DRBL
>> features.  Normally we build machines with DRBL's PXE boot on a certain
>> subnet, but we have another NIC on the DRBL server facing our main
>> networks so we can boot a Clonezilla-live CD anywhere and save or
>> restore images from the same location using ssh or nfs for the
>> connection.  So I need something that uses the clonezilla format for
>> image storage.
>>
> I used the Live CD to try out Clonezilla because it does not require
> installing a server.
>
> If the Live CD is representative of what you can achieve with the
> server I would not have any use for it anyway.

It is handy to drop a one-off image on some network storage (ssh, nfs, 
windows share) as a backup before doing anything major to a machine even 
if you don't do any large-scale cloning and the 'alternative' 
ubuntu-based version stays fairly current with hardware drivers so it 
works on most machines.  But there might be better tools if that is your 
only need or if you need a different style of resizing.

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   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...