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Difference with Partimage? How to automate backup/restore?

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Gilles
2013-10-15
2013-11-03
  • Gilles

    Gilles - 2013-10-15

    Hello

    I have a couple of questions about Clonezilla:

    1. Apparently, it includes Partimage, which seems to perform the same task as Clonezilla. What does Clonezilla add that Partimage can't do?

    2. I'd like to use Clonezilla to clone Windows once a week to make sure I always have a full image of the system partition. By default, Clonezilla requires going through several screens before we get to save/restore an image.

    How can CZ Live be configured to simply start and show the user the two options (backup/restore), and go ahead?

    Thank you.

     
  • Fuchs

    Fuchs - 2013-10-22

    ~~To Point 1:
    None other can say which method is the right one for yourself. Simply test all.

    ~~To Point 2:
    There are many hardware. The live program and its data should fit in the working RAM of the PC. That's why it's necessary
    to adapt the special wishes in a configuration file.

    The method of fully automatic without any user interaction (as an example)
    -use an external drive formatted with a 1. partition 300 MB for Clonezilla, a 2. partition for data
    -adapt the clonezilla
    syslinux/syslinux.cfg:

    In the 'append ..' line (! without newline ) should you use
    ' ocs_prerun="mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt" '
    ' ocs_prerun1="mount --bind /mnt /home/partimag/" '
    ' ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -q2 -j2 -nogui -z1p -i 2000 -p poweroff saveparts autoname sda1 sda2" '
    ' locales="en_US.UTF-8" '
    ' keyboard-layouts=en '

    The last entry will be used.
    (ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" locales= keyboard-layouts= #could you delete)

    And now any more at the beginning of syslinux.cfg:
    timeout 3 #3 msec instead timeout 300
    prompt 0

    Now it's depending on the boot selection only called with any function keys (F11,..).
    (tested with clonezilla-live-2.1.2-43-i686-pae, with hidden windows partition)

     
  • Gilles

    Gilles - 2013-10-31

    Thanks for the tips.

    For a simple setup, ie. in the same shot, between two partitions or disks, RedoBackup seems to work the same way as Clonezilla, but with a simpler GUI.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2013-11-03

    Sure. Different projects have different goals. You are welcome to choose the one fitting your need.

    Steven.

     

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