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Clonezilla

A free, open-source disk imaging and cloning tool distributed as a bootable live Debian-based image, widely used as a free alternative to commercial tools like Norton Ghost.

Specialty & Nichebackupdisk-cloningDebian-basedIT-deploymentDownload ↗Official site ↗Docs / Wiki ↗

Based on

Debian

First released

2007

Package manager

APT (.deb)

Desktop environments

None (text-menu-driven interface)

Clonezilla's entire purpose is disk and partition imaging: cloning an entire drive to another drive, or creating a compressed image file of a system that can be restored later, driven through a straightforward text-based menu rather than a graphical desktop. It's used everywhere from IT departments imaging fleets of identical machines for fast deployment, to individual users making a full backup image before a risky upgrade, to system administrators migrating an installation to new hardware. Its 'Server Edition' variant supports multicasting an image to many machines simultaneously over a network, letting an entire computer lab or office get imaged in one pass rather than one machine at a time.
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