Does anyone read descriptions anymore? If you read the description, comment with “That’s a bossy video”. Shoot, is that engagement farming? Oh well.

What? Oh, right, I’m supposed to be describing this video.

It’s about Clonezilla! I love using Clonezilla for backing up my disk drives to images. It’s also helped me out to be able to convert a physical machine to a VM easily. It’s such a simple tool and I’m really thankful to the folks who made it.

You can check out the tool at https://clonezilla.org/.

Also, I wrote a companion blog post for this video: https://vkc.sh/clonezilla-101

And if you like the shirt I’m wearing, I sell it over on my merch store: https://vkc.sh/product-tag/test-your-backups/

Lastly, I couldn’t do this without the supporters I have on Patreon and Ko-Fi, who foot the bill for all of this nonsense. If you want to join our Discord-slash-Matrix, tiers start at $2/mo USD. Thank you!

https://patreon.com/VeronicaExplains
https://ko-fi.com/VeronicaExplains

Chapters:
0:00 I say “greetings” and tell you about Clonezilla
3:26 What do you need to start using Clonezilla?
4:57 What I’m using to demonstrate Clonezilla
5:45 Getting started and choosing a Clonezilla mode
8:10 Cloning a device to an image with Clonezilla
12:18 Restoring a Clonezilla image to a new device
15:00 It even works with encryption!

  • randombullet
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    1 month ago

    I’ve had mixed results with clonezilla with windows cloning, particularly with the boot breaking.

    DD works quite well, but has a few limitations as well.

    Thankfully I hardly clone so each is its own puzzle.

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    1 month ago

    Heh. My first thought when reading the title was “just use clonezilla?”, and turns out I was correct. It’s a classic tool for a reason.

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      1 month ago

      Not really, for me, anyway, but it’s good to have such diversity among us or else the human race would go extinct, haha.