Clonezilla Automation with Jenkins
A partition and disk imaging/cloning program
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Hello all,
I’m currently playing around with Clonezilla Live and Partclone to backup an external hard disk or a partition of it. What we want to accomplish is:
1) adding and modifying a few files on the hard disk,
2) after that, create an ISO or imaging snapshot file of the hard disk, which can later be used by Clonezilla to clone/restore to another hard drive.
Whereas Clonezilla Live is most frequently used as a Live app booted from an CD or USB , for this task we wanted to have as much of the whole process automated with Jenkins as possible. I have a VirtualBox VM which runs the Clonezilla OS, and was contemplating on making this a Jenkins slave agent that performs the usual backup routine through command line.
I’m want to know if it’s possible to have Jenkins initiate the backup routine using Clonezilla, or whether the aforementioned setup is viable. Or maybe Clonezilla SE is a better solution?
Thank you in advance for any feedback.
Ingrid
We use boot paramaters to make the job automatically run. You can refer to:
https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/05_Preseed_options_to_do_job_after_booting
and
https://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=./clonezilla-live/doc/99_Misc/00_live-boot-parameters.doc#00_live-boot-parameters.doc
Of course you can have other methods to automate it.
Steven