Re: [Clonezilla-live] Why clonezilla sucks
A partition and disk imaging/cloning program
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From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2010-12-01 20:12:09
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On 12/1/2010 1:41 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > >> identical sizes then resize the last partition and filesystem to include the >> extra space, or to fdisk your own followed by cloning individual partition > > for this gparted is suggested but it is not included on the CD? WTF? Hmmm, there must be some tool there that handles the proportional resizing. > This also means that you have to set up the bootloader manually, not > only the partition table. > > You are getting to the point when using clonezilla at all is of > questionable benefit. Yes, but if a tool doesn't do what you happen to want, it doesn't mean the tool is inherently bad. >> If I were adding functionality it would be to make it able to automate the >> partition/filesystem/grub setup to a point where a tar image would drop in >> so it could do a bare-metal restore of a tar backup made from a live system. >> But, that's another thing it wasn't designed to do... > > Live system backups have issues. You sometimes backup temporary/run > time files that should not be there or not backup files which are > covered by mounts. Also tar does not have extensions for all > filesystem features. Yes, I didn't mean to replace the ability to image-clone, just an addition that with a few hints about partition sizes and filesystem types could reconstruct a machine from nightly backups that you make without shutting the system down - or in my case it would be the tar output from backuppc where the backup is stored more efficiently. > Surely the authors made some notes over the years of development but > it looks like the source is not meant to be used by people outside of > the development team, it does not include the notes on how it is used. I can't speak for the author, but I got the impression that clonezilla-live is really a side branch of what they really use which is the PXE-booting DRBL server that would run mostly unattended either booting or cloning a bunch of identical systems. -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |