I wonder if could be possible to use clonezilla from Windows 10, or have a version for it. The thing is, I want to backup a pendrive, which is a removable drive, and make a good backup with the minimum size possible. If I use dd the resulting file has the same as the drive, despite there isn't much space used, and compressing it doesn't really reduce size. I've been trying to find something similar for Windows 10 but couldn't find it. Also, tried with Ubuntu for Windows from Microsoft Store, but doesn't allow to view /dev/ block devices.
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No. Clonezilla's underlying OS has to be GNU/Linux.
However, why don't you just boot the machine with Clonezilla live, then backup your penddrive, as the steps shown here: https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php
Steven
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Is there a windows backup softwarethat does not use proprietary formatted backup images that I can restore with clonezilla or other totally free app.
I am using WinServerBackup app that comes with Win Server 2008 R2, using an external drive, say \root, as target to store the backup. By \root I mean whatver drive letter Windows assigns to your target backup drive.
WinServerBackup writes the the backup on a protected folder called WindowsImageBackup that has to be on the \root of the target disk.
You can't write anything else on \root because WinServerBackup set is as a write only folder, but you can add folders that will not be protected.
To restore the WindowsImageBackup, it needs to be on a root of some disk, say the original target disk, or another disk. You can move it, but only to the root of some disk.
Clonezilla is nicier. Images can be anywhere and have descriptive names.
The only reason I use WindowsImageBackup on the Server is because it handles incremental/differential backups and such.
If clonezilla did inc/diff backups directly from Windows, I would use that.
I don't want to intall another backup app because I am afraid I will need that app to restore proprietary images. That's bad. I could have lost the software, the registration key, be banned to use it on another machine (like easeus backup), etc. etc.
The best would be clonezilla for windows!
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Sorry, I do not think there is such software existing for MS WIndows that the format it creates can be used by Clonezilla. Unless you port Clonezilla and Partclone to MS Windows. The WSL can run GNU/Linux on MS Windows, but the disk utils like partclone won't work since WSL does not support accessing block device (/dev/sda...).
Steven
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I wonder if could be possible to use clonezilla from Windows 10, or have a version for it. The thing is, I want to backup a pendrive, which is a removable drive, and make a good backup with the minimum size possible. If I use dd the resulting file has the same as the drive, despite there isn't much space used, and compressing it doesn't really reduce size. I've been trying to find something similar for Windows 10 but couldn't find it. Also, tried with Ubuntu for Windows from Microsoft Store, but doesn't allow to view /dev/ block devices.
No. Clonezilla's underlying OS has to be GNU/Linux.
However, why don't you just boot the machine with Clonezilla live, then backup your penddrive, as the steps shown here:
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php
Steven
Is there a windows backup softwarethat does not use proprietary formatted backup images that I can restore with clonezilla or other totally free app.
I am using WinServerBackup app that comes with Win Server 2008 R2, using an external drive, say \root, as target to store the backup. By \root I mean whatver drive letter Windows assigns to your target backup drive.
WinServerBackup writes the the backup on a protected folder called WindowsImageBackup that has to be on the \root of the target disk.
You can't write anything else on \root because WinServerBackup set is as a write only folder, but you can add folders that will not be protected.
To restore the WindowsImageBackup, it needs to be on a root of some disk, say the original target disk, or another disk. You can move it, but only to the root of some disk.
Clonezilla is nicier. Images can be anywhere and have descriptive names.
The only reason I use WindowsImageBackup on the Server is because it handles incremental/differential backups and such.
If clonezilla did inc/diff backups directly from Windows, I would use that.
I don't want to intall another backup app because I am afraid I will need that app to restore proprietary images. That's bad. I could have lost the software, the registration key, be banned to use it on another machine (like easeus backup), etc. etc.
The best would be clonezilla for windows!
Sorry, I do not think there is such software existing for MS WIndows that the format it creates can be used by Clonezilla. Unless you port Clonezilla and Partclone to MS Windows. The WSL can run GNU/Linux on MS Windows, but the disk utils like partclone won't work since WSL does not support accessing block device (/dev/sda...).
Steven