Steven Shiau - 2013-07-06

On 06/19/2013 05:26 AM, leeb1 wrote:

hi all, coming here to ask you about clonezeilla full disck backup,
and if these option does absolutely full disk backup? Including MBR
and any possibly hidden areas that we may not know about?

recently installed dual-boot linux+windows on companys laptop and
broken the mbr, so windows was gone, I realy want install linux as
dont want to use companys windows at home but want to avoid going
again to IT stuff with the same issue! they fixed my laptop
redeploying windows.

i need to be 100% sure clonezilla can save my life in case I do
(again) something wrong

I learned two wthings:
1. never overwrite mbr while installing linux (these was advanced grub
option which I didnt look in)
2. clonezilla workes better on smaler discs, tried to do backup on
500GB and it took forever! (120gb in 2h and my backup disc was full
then, so shranked windows partition to 350gb and bang, 20min full disk
backup - in custom settings)

"tried to do backup on 500GB and it took forever!" -> Which version of
Clonezilla live did you use? Here we tested with 2 TB disk and no such
issue...

so now asking you, if these customs settings with full disk backup
500gb shrinked to 350gb will save my life these time?

best of luck!

full disk backup of encrypted disk (bitlocker)
https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Help/thread/2ad024e7/?limit=25#eb4e

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