05-04-2015, 04:48 PM
(05-04-2015, 07:37 AM)m654321 link Wrote: Is there a tutorial somewhere within the forum showing how to use clonezilla?
If there is it would be in the "Tutorials" section. If not, I'm sure there are plenty of youtube videos on doing it, so have a look there. I haven't toyed around very much myself with cloning and backup software, but I did test out Clonezilla about a month ago to clone a drive and it worked perfectly. (I probably should have recorded my steps for a tutorial, but I didn't.) I forget the exact wording, but basically it will offer two methods of cloning: one to produce an exact (byte-for-byte) duplicate of a drive or partition, and the other a duplicate of the contents of a drive or partition. (The descriptions given during operation of Clonezilla will tell you which is which.)
For example, if you want to clone a partition that is 50GB in size consisting of 30GB of files and the rest free space, a byte-for-byte duplicate would copy the entire 50GB. The other option would only copy the 30GB of files. For the first, when transferring to another drive, that drive must be the same 50GB size or larger; whereas the second option would only require the destination drive to be 30GB or larger.
(05-04-2015, 07:37 AM)m654321 link Wrote: Is there a way of using the 'dd' command in linux to clone parts of the drives or is this just for entire drives?
Yes, the "dd" command can be used to copy either full drives or specific partitions. Here's a link I found a while back that goes through some of the many, many uses of the "dd" command: How to do everything with DD. Here's another one: Learn the DD command.
GUI cloning and backup programs are just easy-to-use front ends for terminal commands. I'm not 100% sure, but I suspect that Clonezilla uses the "dd" command for disk copy (byte-for-byte) operations and "rsync" for the other.
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