Clonezilla

Total robustness in disk cloning

Commentaires : Powerful and straightforward solution for professional disk cloning. Working with servers and workstation, this piece of software becomes a must in terms of reliability. Clonezilla works at low level on disk blocks to guarantee a 1:1 clone, preserving boot sectors and file structures on any disk.

Avantages :

- Solid kernel and boot process - Any file system supported - Fast and reliable read-write operation - Comprehensive options and setup - Low resource consuming. Good for older hardware.

Inconvénients :

- Not designed for non experienced users, requires experience and understanding of file systems and boot processes - Old fashion GUI can be surely improved, even keeping the terminal-look for maximum compatibility

A Great Open-Source Drive Tool

Commentaires : While lacking in some functions compared to paid competition and being less pretty, if Clonezilla does what you need it to it's hard to argue with its usability and wonderful price of absolutely free.

Avantages :

Clonezilla is a powerful drive tool that allows for backing up, cloning, and partitioning of drives. It boots off of a flash drive, making it independent from the OS of whatever other drives are on the computer. While not especially intuitive, Clonezilla provides powerful tools that have given me little problem, with some safeguards to prevent you from causing harm to your computers. One of my favorite instances of using Clonezilla was recovering a corrupted drive that would not even be detected by other free drive tools.

Inconvénients :

The interface is resembles some of the old DOS interfaces from the 90s, a far cry from more modern interfaces with even mouse support. Clonezilla is not intuitive to use, especially to those who aren't computer savvy. While Clonezilla supports any filesystem and file interface, it displays them using Linux's fileystem. Clonezilla also lacks some features compared to some paid options, such as backup scheduling, and granular backup control.

Classic cloning software, tricky to use

Avantages :

A reliable cloning/backup solution and does well to keep the size of cloned disks down. We use it to image Test PCs for easy wiping back to a clean state.

Inconvénients :

The UI is ugly and slow to navigate, making the software more laborious to use than it really should. It may be confusing for users not familiar with Linux, as it refers to disks as 'sda, sdb'.

Speed up Deployments with Clonezilla

Avantages :

Great tool make computer imaging go fast and it helps to speed up the deployment process.

Inconvénients :

Sometime you might get error or cloning does not work but all you have to do is make sure you have the latest version of clonezilla.

Free, easy to use and have many option

Commentaires : With previously use Norton Ghost but licencing is a pain to deal with and so we try CloneZilla. Free, easy to understand how that work and of course, quick to restore entire rooms PCs (installed into high school to restore PC each new school year)

Avantages :

exist in few version (I only use the server edition). That make the job and can beat challenger easely in few option

Inconvénients :

GUI is not very cool and not intuitive but we some time you could easely manage with that