Clonezilla live 3.1.1, a Linux distribution designed for efficient disc cloning, has been released. The distribution, similar to Norton Ghost, focuses on copying only used blocks. The ISO image size of the release is 417MB (i686, AMD64) and can be downloaded from here.
Clonezilla live is based on Debian GNU/Linux and incorporates features and code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, NTFSCLONE, PARTCLONE, and UDPCAST. It supports various file systems such as LVM2, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, Reiserfs, Reiser4, XFS, JFS, BTRFS, F2FS, NILFS2, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, UFS, Minix, VMFS3, and VMFS5 (VMware ESX). The distribution can be downloaded and used with CD/DVD, USB Flash, and network (PXE). Notably, it offers a mass cloning mode over the network, including multicast support, enabling cloning of the original disc for multiple client machines simultaneously. Cloning at the disk or partition level is possible, as well as creating backup copies through disk image maintenance to a file.
The latest release comes with several updates, including:
- Synchronization with the Debian SID package base as of November 2.
- Updating the Linux kernel to version 6.5 (previously 6.1).
- Upgrading Partclone tools to version 0.3.27, adding support for the options “-Read-direct-oo” and “–write-direct-,IO” for direct input/output during reading and writing.
- Updating the ezio package to version 2.0.5, which includes support for Torrent files larger than 4MB. Ezio is used to distribute disks in local networks using the Bittorrent protocol.
- Including ACPITOOL, NTFS2BTRFS, ZFSUTILS-Linux, and VIM (replacing VIM-Tiny) in the live collection.
- Replacing the Mlocate package with PloCate