Re: [Clonezilla-live] Why Clonezilla does not suck

[Michal S. <hra...@ce...>]

On 3 December 2010 02:32, Bill Gurley <gu...@io...> wrote:
> I want to second what Bob said....
>
> I've been using clonezilla-live for at least two years.  In my shop, we
> use it in two main ways:  We create standard builds of computer models
> that we frequently buy, and use those images to restore to newly
> purchased machines.

It's good it works for you.

It does not work for me.

>
> Secondly, we do periodic backup images for various people in the department.
>
> We have an "image server" with 2TB of disk space where we store these
> images.  We create and restore the clonezilla images over the network.
> Almost all of these are Windows machines, both XP and Win7.
>
> My previous experiences cloning computers was with Powerquest Drive
> Image, which was later bought out by Symantec and pretty much killed in
> favor of Ghost.
>
> I wanted an open source solution, and found clonezilla.  I realized
> early on that it is not for someone who expects a simple point-and-click
> interface.  But I read the docs and didn't have any trouble
> understanding how to use it.

In my eyes Clonezilla only caters to the simplistic point-and-click users.

There is no way to get control over the operations Clonezilla performs
with the current user interface and pointers to information on how to
customize the behaviour are missing.

The "source" is just a dump of random files.

I can get equally useful dump by downloading a random live CD geared
towards disk backups and picking files from it.

Thanks

Michal