Clonezilla disk to disk size to small / too large

[stok toks]

Hello all,

I'm trying to manage my backup policies and I am having a very annoying
time with CloneZilla (disk to disk).

My source disk is 500gb ; so I purchase a 500gb SSD to clone the image;
however the SSD image was too small as it wasn't exactly 500gb.
I purchase a 1tb SSD; expecting clonezilla to utilise only the 500gb it
needs to backup my 500gb; but to my surprise on testing recovery the 1tb is
now too large to copy the backup back to the source.

This feels like an endless cat and mouse. If I purchase a source SSD > 1 TB
and recover my back; next time I backup the source it will be too large for
the 1TB SSD.

Surely theres a better way of doing this?

If I resize my source parittion and burn to the 500gb; its only going to
cause an issue when I bur the 500gb back to the source as it will be larger!

What's the best way of approaching this

[Steven Shiau]

"I purchase a 1tb SSD; expecting clonezilla to utilise only the 500gb it needs to backup my 500gb; but to my surprise on testing recovery the 1tb is now too large to copy the backup back to the source." -> What did you mean?

BTW, you can check this:
https://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq#119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq

//NOTE// backup important data before you use Clonezilla. Just in case.

Steven