Creating multi-disc, automated DVDs
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Greetings!
I've been playing around with Clonezilla quite a bit, and I love the potential it has. However, particular options I would like to have I have not managed to find. I hope someone in the community can help me.
I want to create recovery DVD's for the computers I have at home. Particularly, a recovery disc my brother can use without me being present. I want to create a series of DVD discs that can recover his HDD disc or partition, with little user intervention. I only want him to say YES or NO (or accept the options) in regards of the warning when recovering the computer using the media.
Problem is, the image it creats, when I decide to convert it to a live ISO, is usually too large for a standard DVD. Let's say the image is 20GB. Sure, I can use a Bluray disc, but he doesn't have a BDRE drive installed, just a DVDRW. So I thought about seperating the image in "chunks" to around 4GB each file for the image, enough to fit a DVDRW with ease.
Now, how can I create a series of DVD media (say the complete recovery consists of 6 DVD's, without compression) that contain a custom background at boot (it will display a background I have created, at the necessary resolution, also stating the computer it is for), spans several discs that automatically are requested when the previous disc has completed loading, and that only has the option for him to:
1)Say YES or NO to the recovery before executing it
2)Will tell him to "change to DVD #, where # is the disc it is requested to comlete the recovery?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I want to make the interface as easy as possible, without intimidating him with Terminal-like text filling the screen…all working behind a picture, in the background.
This is still the limitation of Clonezilla live, as described here:
http://clonezilla.org/
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"Recovery Clonezilla live with multiple CDs or DVDs is not implemented yet. Now all the files have to be in one CD or DVD if you choose to create the recovery iso file."
Steven.