Re: [Clonezilla-live] Why clonezilla sucks

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 12/3/2010 11:21 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 3 December 2010 10:08, Gilles<cod...@fr...>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:55:27 +0100, Michal Suchanek
>> <hra...@ce...>  wrote:
>>> Thanks for making clonezilla. It tells me which 5 tools I will need if
>>> I wanted to clone a disk using free software.
>>
>> Have you tried RedoBackup? It's a GUI-based live distro that includes
>> a bunch of software to manage images, including gparted, partclone +
>> partimage, etc.
>>
>> www.redobackup.org/features.php
>>
>
> Did not hear about that before.
>
> Redo backup advertizes fewer features compared to Clonezilla, it is
> basically the Clonezilla "Simple" mode without any of the expert
> options.
>
> Given that only the simple mode is usable in Clonezilla and that Redo
> also includes Gparted to fix up things after the basic clone and also
> a simple interface accessible to much wider range of users it is a big
> win overall.

It's only a win if you don't use any of the other Clonezilla/DRBL 
features.  Normally we build machines with DRBL's PXE boot on a certain 
subnet, but we have another NIC on the DRBL server facing our main 
networks so we can boot a Clonezilla-live CD anywhere and save or 
restore images from the same location using ssh or nfs for the 
connection.  So I need something that uses the clonezilla format for 
image storage.

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   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...