Clonezilla

Clonezilla
Original author(s)Steven Shiau
Developer(s)NCHC Free Software Labs
Initial release8 September 2007 (2007-September-08)
Stable release
3.1.3-16[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 18 July 2024; 2 months ago (18 July 2024)
Preview release
3.1.1-1[2] / May 7, 2023; 16 months ago (2023-05-07)
Repository
Written inPerl, Unix shell
Operating systemPOSIX, Linux
Available inEnglish, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
TypeDisk cloning, disk imaging, system deployment
LicenseGPL
Websiteclonezilla.org

Clonezilla is an open-source suite of disk cloning, disk imaging and system deployment utilities.[3][4][5] Clonezilla Server Edition uses multicast technologies to deploy a single image file to a group of computers on a local area network.[5] Clonezilla was designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan.[6][7][8][9]

Clonezilla is used to deploy operating systems to computers by imaging a single computer and then deploying that image to one or more systems.[3][10] It integrates several other open-source programs to provide cloning and imaging capabilities.

Clonezilla works by copying used blocks on the storage device (i.e. SATA SSD, HDD or NVMe SSD).[4] It is intended to support a bare-metal deployment of an operating system by booting from a preinstalled live environment. The preinstallation environment can be booted from a USB flash drive, CD/DVD-ROM or Android mobile phone.[11][12][5] It uses Partclone, Ntfsclone, Partimage, or dd to image the drive either over the network or to a locally-attached hard disk drive.[4]

  1. ^ "[Clonezilla-release] Stable Clonezilla live 3.1.3-16 Released". 18 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  2. ^ Shiau, Steven. "Clonezilla - Downloads". Clonezilla.org. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
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