--- trunk/www/onepage.html 2010/03/23 10:28:53 37 +++ trunk/www/onepage.html 2010/05/31 19:25:49 71 @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@

Clonezilla-SysRescCD

Wellcome

-

25/02/2010 - v 3.1.0

-

Last update: 23/03/2010

+

25/05/2010 - v 3.1.0

+

Last update: 31/05/2010

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Release table DateVersion Clonezilla Live VersionSystemRescueCD Version -25/02/103.1.01.2.3-27 (mod)1.4.0 (mod) +25/05/103.1.01.2.5-17 (mod)1.5.4 (mod) 02/07/082.6.01.1.0-8 (mod)1.0.4 (mod) @@ -162,8 +162,8 @@
VersionPackage/CDComments
3.1.0CD -- Clonezilla Live updated to version 1.2.3-27
-- SystemRescueCD updated to version 1.4.0
+- Clonezilla Live updated to version 1.2.5-17-686
+- SystemRescueCD updated to version 1.5.3
Super Grub Disk updated to version 0.9799
- Added Super Grub Disk 2 version 1.30
- Most operations are now executed through the TUI (Text User Interface)
@@ -300,8 +300,8 @@

Download [^]

-Installation package: create-clonezilla-sysresccd-3.1.0.tar.gz [~ 1.7 MB]
-ISO file: clonezilla-sysresccd-full-mod-3.1.0.iso [~ 366 MB]
+Installation package: create-clonezilla-sysresccd-3.1.0.tar.gz [~ B]
+ISO file: clonezilla-sysresccd-full-mod-3.1.0.iso [~ B]
md5sum file: md5sum.txt

ISO file md5sum:

Can I help? [^]

@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@

SystemRescueCD boot parameters [^]

-The following info applies to SystemRescueCD v. 1.3.5. In case
+The following info applies to SystemRescueCD v. 1.5.4. In case
you need to get info for a more recent version of SystemRescueCD
please see the page "Sysresccd-manual-en Booting the CD-ROM"
@@ -536,61 +536,91 @@

The kernel used is rescuecd, and anything after the word append is a boot parameter.

Available kernels (boot images):


The boot parameters you can use are:

-

General boot options

-

Clonezilla Live boot parameters [^]

-The following info applies to Clonezilla Live v. 1.2.3-27
+The following info applies to Clonezilla Live v. 1.2.5-17
In case you need to get info for a more recent version of Clonezilla Live
please see the page "The boot parameters for Clonezilla live"
@@ -600,13 +630,14 @@ ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap="" ocs_live_batch="no" ocs_lang="" vga=791 nolocales

The kernel used is vmlinuz, and anything after the word append is a boot parameter.

The following info comes from the page titled The boot parameters for Clonezilla live.

-
Clonezilla live is based on Debian live with clonezilla installed. Therefore there are 2 kinds of boot parameters: +
Clonezilla live is based on Debian live with clonezilla installed. Therefore there are 2 kinds of boot parameters:
  1. Boot parameters from live-initramfs. You can refer to this manual of live-initramfs.
  2. Boot parameters specially for Clonezilla. All of them are named as "ocs_*", e.g. ocs_live_run, ocs_live_extra_param, ocs_live_batch, ocs_lang.
    • ocs_live_run is the main program to run in Clonezilla live to save or restore. or other command. Available program: ocs-live-general, ocs-live-restore or any command you write. Use the Absolute path in Clonezilla live.
      - e.g. ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" + e.g. ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general"
      + //NOTE// You might have to use "sudo" command inside your own script, or you can assign it like: ocs_live_run="sudo bash /my-clonezilla"
    • ocs_live_extra_param will be used only when ocs_live_run=ocs-live-restore (not for ocs-live-general or any other), then it will be passed to ocs-sr. Therefore these parameters are actually those of ocs-sr.
      e.g. ocs_live_extra_param="-b -c restoredisk sarge-r5 hda"
    • ocs_live_keymap is for keymap used in Clonezilla live. Man install-keymap for more details.
      @@ -620,7 +651,17 @@
    • ocs_daemonon, ocs_daemonoff, ocs_numlk, ocs_capslk.
      Ex. for the first 2 parameters, ocs_daemonon="ssh", then ssh service will be turned on when booting. For the last 2 parameters, use "on" or "off", e.g. ocs_numlk=on to turn on numberlock when booting.
    • ocs_prerun, ocs_prerun1, ocs_prerun2... is for you to run a shell script before Clonezilla is started. E.g. ocs_prerun="/live/image/myscript.sh". If you have more commands to run, you can assign them in the order: ocs_prerun=..., ocs_prerun1=..., ocs_prerun2=.... If more than 10 parameters, remember to use ocs_prerun01, ocs_prerun02..., ocs_prerun11 to make it in order. -
    • ocs_live_run_tty. This option allows you to specify the tty where $ocs_live_run is run. By default $ocs_live_run is run on /dev/tty1 only. (It was also on /dev/ttyS0 before, but since Clonezilla live >= 1.2.3-22 no more this due to a problem). If you want to use ttyS0, for example, add live-getty and console=ttyS0,38400n81 in the boot parameter. +
    • ocs_live_run_tty. This option allows you to specify the tty where $ocs_live_run is run. By default $ocs_live_run is run on /dev/tty1 only. (It was also on /dev/ttyS0 before, but since Clonezilla live >= 1.2.3-22 no more this due to a problem). If you want to use ttyS0, for example, add live-getty and console=ttyS0,38400n81 in the boot parameter.
      + //NOTE//
      +
        +
      • This parameter was added in Clonezilla live 1.2.3-22 or later. +
      • If "live-getty console=$tty,38400n81" are assigned in the boot parameters, ocs_live_run_tty will honor $tty, even other value is assigned to ocs_live_run_tty in boot parameter. +
      • It's recommended to assign ocs_lang and ocs_live_keymap in the boot parameters too. +
      +
    • ip, this option allows you to specify the network parameters for network card. In Clonezilla live a patched live-initramfs is used, which is different from the original live-initramfs so that you can assign DNS server, too. Its format is: ip=ethernet port,IP address, netmask, gateway, DNS. E.g. If you want to assing eth0 with IP address 10.0.100.1, netmask 255.255.255.0, gateway 10.0.100.254, DNS server 8.8.8.8, you can assign the following in the boot parameter:
      +ip=eth0,10.0.100.1,255.255.255.0,10.0.100.254,8.8.8.8
      +If more than one network card, you can use ":" to separate them, e.g.:
      +ip=eth0,10.0.100.1,255.255.255.0,10.0.100.254,8.8.8.8:eth1,192.168.120.1,255.255.255.0,192.168.120.254,,
    • Besides, "live-netdev" (yes, not ocs_live_netdev) can be used when using PXE booting, you can force to assign the network device to get filesystem.squashfs. This is useful when there are two or more NICs are linked. E.g. live-netdev="eth1" allows you to force the live-initramfs to use eth1 to fetch the root file system filesystem.squashfs.
@@ -706,7 +747,7 @@

This is the manual of live-initramfs

-
+
 live-initramfs(7)
 =================
 Name
@@ -727,78 +768,79 @@
 aufs, for Debian like systems to boot from.
 You probably do not want to install this package onto a non-live system,
 although it will do no harm.
-live-initramfs is a fork of link:http://packages.ubuntu.com/casper/[casper].
-casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com>
-and Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>.
+live-initramfs is a fork of casper.
+casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen &lt;tfheen@canonical.com&gt;
+and Matt Zimmerman &lt;mdz@canonical.com&gt;.
 Boot options
 ------------
 Here is the complete list of recognized boot parameters by live-initramfs.
- access=*ACCESS*::
+  access=*ACCESS*::
 Set the accessibility level for physically or visually impared users. ACCESS
 must be one of v1, v2, v3, m1, or m2. v1=lesser visual impairment, v2=moderate
 visual impairment, v3=blindness, m1=minor motor difficulties, m2=moderate motor
 difficulties.
- console=*TTY,SPEED*::
+  console=*TTY,SPEED*::
 Set the default console to be used with the "live-getty" option. Example:
 "console=ttyS0,115200"
- debug::
+  debug::
 Makes initramfs boot process more verbose.
- fetch=*URL*::
+  fetch=*URL*::
 Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url,
 copying to ram and booting it.
- hostname=*HOSTNAME*, username=*USER*, userfullname=*USERFULLNAME*::
+  hostname=*HOSTNAME*, username=*USER*, userfullname=*USERFULLNAME*::
 Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file.
- ignore_uuid
+  ignore_uuid
 Do not check that any UUID embedded in the initramfs matches the discovered
 medium. live-initramfs may be told to generate a UUID by setting
 LIVE_GENERATE_UUID=1 when building the initramfs.
- integrity-check::
+  integrity-check::
 If specified, an MD5 sum is calculated on the live media during boot and
 compared to the value found in md5sum.txt found in the root directory of the
 live media.
- ip=**[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF]
-    [,[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF]]***::
+  ip=**[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:
+     [DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF] [,[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:
+     [DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF]]***::
 Let you specify the name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should be
 configured at boot time. Do not specify this if you want to use dhcp (default).
 It will be changed in a future release to mimick official kernel boot param
 specification (e.g. ip=10.0.0.1::10.0.0.254:255.255.255.0::eth0,:::::eth1:dhcp).
- ip[=**frommedia**]::
+  ip[=**frommedia**]::
 If this variable is set, dhcp and static configuration are just skipped and the
 system will use the (must be) media-preconfigured /etc/network/interfaces
 instead.
- {keyb|kbd-chooser/method}=**KEYBOARD**, {klayout|console-setup/layoutcode}=**LAYOUT**,
-    {kvariant|console-setup/variantcode}=**VARIANT**,
-    {kmodel|console-setup/modelcode}=**CODE**, koptions=**OPTIONS**::
+  {keyb|kbd-chooser/method}=**KEYBOARD**, {klayout|console-setup/layoutcode}=**LAYOUT**,
+    {kvariant|console-setup/variantcode}=**VARIANT**, {kmodel|console-setup/modelcode}=
+    **CODE**, koptions=**OPTIONS**::
 Configure the running keyboard as specified, if this one misses live-initramfs
 behaves as if "keyb=us" was specified. It will be interfered from "locale=" if
 locale is only 2 lowecase letters as a special case. You could also specify
 console layout, variant, code, and options (no defaults).
- live-getty::
+  live-getty::
 This changes the auto-login on virtual terminals to use the (experimental)
 live-getty code. With this option set the standard kernel argument "console=" is
 parsed and if a serial console is specified then live-getty is used to autologin
 on the serial console.
- {live-media|bootfrom}=**DEVICE**::
+  {live-media|bootfrom}=**DEVICE**::
 If you specify one of this two equivalent forms, live-initramfs will first try
 to find this device for the "/live" directory where the read-only root
 filesystem should reside. If it did not find something usable, the normal scan
 for block devices is performed.
- {live-media-encryption|encryption}=**TYPE**::
+  {live-media-encryption|encryption}=**TYPE**::
 live-initramfs will mount the encrypted rootfs TYPE, asking the passphrase,
 useful to build paranoid live systems :-). TYPE supported so far are "aes" for
 loop-aes encryption type.
- live-media-offset=**BYTES**::
+  live-media-offset=**BYTES**::
 This way you could tell live-initramfs that your image starts at offset BYTES in
 the above specified or autodiscovered device, this could be useful to hide the
 Debian Live iso or image inside another iso or image, to create "clean" images.
- live-media-path=**PATH**::
+  live-media-path=**PATH**::
 Sets the path to the live filesystem on the medium. By default, it is set to
 '/live' and you should not change that unless you have customized your media
 accordingly.
- live-media-timeout=**SECONDS**::
+  live-media-timeout=**SECONDS**::
 Set the timeout in seconds for the device specified by "live-media=" to become
 ready before giving up.
- {locale|debian-installer/locale}=**LOCALE**::
+  {locale|debian-installer/locale}=**LOCALE**::
 Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live-media rootfs
 configured locale will be used and if also this one misses live-initramfs behave
 as "locale=en_US.UTF-8" was specified. If only 2 lowercase letter are specified
@@ -806,41 +848,41 @@
 case if also "keyb=" is unspecified is set with those 2 lowercase letters
 (keyb=us). Beside that facility, only UTF8 locales are supported by
 live-initramfs.
- module=**NAME**::
+  module=**NAME**::
 Instead of using the default optional file "filesystem.module" (see below)
 another file could be specified without the extension ".module"; it should be
 placed on "/live" directory of the live medium.
- netboot[=**nfs**|**cifs**]::
+  netboot[=**nfs**|**cifs**]::
 This tells live-initramfs to perform a network mount. The parameter "nfsroot="
 (with optional "nfsopts="), should specify where is the location of the root
 filesystem.  With no args, will try cifs first, and if it fails nfs.
- nfsopts=::
+  nfsopts=::
 This lets you specify custom nfs options.
- noautologin::
+  noautologin::
 This parameter disables the automatic terminal login only, not touching gdk/kdm.
- noxautologin::
+  noxautologin::
 This parameter disables the automatic login of gdm/kdm only, not touching
 terminals.
- nofastboot::
+  nofastboot::
 This parameter disables the default disabling of filesystem checks in
 /etc/fstab. If you have static filesystems on your harddisk and you want them to
 be checked at boot time, use this parameter, otherwise they are skipped.
- nopersistent::
+  nopersistent::
 disables the "persistent" feature, useful if the bootloader (like syslinux) has
 been installed with persistent enabled.
- noprompt
+  noprompt
 Do not prompt to eject the CD on reboot.
- nosudo::
+  nosudo::
 This parameter disables the automatic configuration of sudo.
- swapon::
+  swapon::
 This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions.
- nouser::
+  nouser::
 This parameter disables the creation of the default user completely.
- noxautoconfig::
+  noxautoconfig::
 This parameter disables Xorg auto-reconfiguration at boot time. This is valuable
 if you either do the detection on your own, or, if you want to ship a custom,
 premade xorg.conf in your live system.
- persistent[=nofiles]::
+  persistent[=nofiles]::
 live-initramfs will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled
 "live-rw", "home-rw", and files called "live-sn*", "home-sn*" and will try to,
 in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just copy the
@@ -849,52 +891,52 @@
 informations. If "nofiles" is specified, only filesystems with matching labels
 will be searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for archives or image
 files. This results in shorter boot times.
- {preseed/file|file}=**FILE**::
+  {preseed/file|file}=**FILE**::
 A path to a file present on the rootfs could be used to preseed debconf
 database.
- package/question=**VALUE**::
+  package/question=**VALUE**::
 All debian installed packages could be preseeded from command-line that way,
 beware of blanks spaces, they will interfere with parsing, use a preseed file in
 this case.
- quickreboot::
+  quickreboot::
 This option causes live-initramfs to reboot without attempting to eject the
 media and without asking the user to remove the boot media.
- showmounts::
+  showmounts::
 This parameter will make live-initramfs to show on "/" the ro filesystems
 (mostly compressed) on "/live". This is not enabled by default because could
 lead to problems by applications like "mono" which store binary paths on
 installation.
- textonly
+  textonly
 Start up to text-mode shell prompts, disabling the graphical user interface.
- timezone=**TIMEZONE**::
+  timezone=**TIMEZONE**::
 By default, timezone is set to UTC. Using the timezone parameter, you can set it
 to your local zone, e.g. Europe/Zurich.
- todisk=**DEVICE**::
+  todisk=**DEVICE**::
 Adding this parameter, live-initramfs will try to copy the entire read-only
 media to the specified device before mounting the root filesystem. It probably
 needs a lot of free space. Subsequent boots should then skip this step and just
 specify the "live-media=DEVICE" boot parameter with the same DEVICE used this
 time.
- toram::
+  toram::
 Adding this parameter, live-initramfs will try to copy the whole read-only media
 to the computer's RAM before mounting the root filesystem. This could need a lot
 of ram, according to the space used by the read-only media.
- union=**aufs**|**unionfs**::
+  union=**aufs**|**unionfs**::
 By default, live-initramfs uses aufs. With this parameter, you can switch to
 unionfs.
- utc=**yes**|**no**::
+  utc=**yes**|**no**::
 By default, Debian systems do assume that the hardware clock is set to UTC. You
 can change or explicitly set it with this parameter.
- xdebconf::
+  xdebconf::
 Uses xdebconfigurator, if present on the rootfs, to configure X instead of the
 standard procedure (experimental).
- xvideomode=**RESOLUTION**::
+  xvideomode=**RESOLUTION**::
 Doesn't do xorg autodetection, but enforces a given resolution.
 Files
 -----
- /etc/live.conf
+  /etc/live.conf
 Some variables can be configured via this config file (inside the live system).
-  /live/filesystem.module
+   /live/filesystem.module
 This optional file (inside the live media) contains a list of white-space or
 carriage-return-separated file names corresponding to disk images in the "/live"
 directory. If this file exists, only images listed here will be merged into the
@@ -902,7 +944,7 @@
 in this file will be the "lowest" point in the aufs, and the last file in
 this list will be on the "top" of the aufs, directly below /cow.  Without
 this file, any images in the "/live" directory are loaded in alphanumeric order.
-/etc/live-persistence.binds
+ /etc/live-persistence.binds
 This optional file (which resides in the rootfs system, not in the live media)
 is used as a list of directories which not need be persistent: ie. their
 content does not need to survive reboots when using the persistence features.
@@ -917,19 +959,20 @@
 Bugs
 ----
 Report bugs against live-initramfs
-link:http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-initramfs[http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-initramfs].
+http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-initramfs.
 Homepage
 --------
 More information about the Debian Live project can be found at
-link:http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/[http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/] and
-link:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/].
+http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ and
+http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/.
 Authors
 -------
-live-initramfs is maintained by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
+live-initramfs is maintained by Daniel Baumann &lt;daniel@debian.org&gt;
 for the Debian project.
-live-initramfs is a fork of link:http://packages.ubuntu.com/casper/[casper].
-casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com>
-and Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>.
+live-initramfs is a fork of casper. +casper was originally written by Tollef Fog Heen &lt;tfheen@canonical.com&gt; +and Matt Zimmerman &lt;mdz@canonical.com&gt;. +

About Clonezilla Live [^]

@@ -974,8 +1017,7 @@

ocs-live

About the Image file [^]

One thing should be made clear about the image file: it is not a file, it is a folder, containing the actual image file and some data about the disk/partition it is associated with. So when you insert the image file name, you actually insert the folder name where the image will be saved/restored.

-Before you are able to insert the image file name, a list of partitions will be presented to you, so that you can choose where it should be saved/found. When you select one of them, it will be mounted under /home/partimag.

-This folder is very important for Clonezilla Live; the image file must be located under this directory, which means that the image file must be on the root directory of the mounted partition. So you can not, for example, create a folder called all_my_images and move all your image files in there; Clonezilla Live will not be able to find them!!!

+Before you are able to insert the image file name, a list of partitions will be presented to you, so that you can choose where it should be saved/found. When you select one of them, it will be mounted and a list of folders will be presented to you, so you can select the base image directory (first level directory within the partition), which will then be mounted under /home/partimag. This way you can, for example, create a folder called all_my_images in one of your disk partitions, and move all your image files in there; Clonezilla Live will be able to find them!!!

Another thing that should be pointed out is that only unmounted partitions will be included in the above list. This means that if you have stopped the program at some point after specifying the partition where the image file resides, and it has been mounted, it will not be present in the list the next time it is presented to you, and you will not be able to use it.

There are two things you can do in this case; either unmount the partition, as stated above, or select

skip        Use existing /home/partimag

@@ -1005,22 +1047,36 @@

This option prevents Clonezilla Live from cloning your page file if you are cloning a partition containing Windows. Often the page file is big and unneeded, and skipping it may speed cloning up without causing any harm. Mind you, this option is disabled by default because sometimes the page file may be necessary.

-ntfs-ok Skip checking NTFS integrity, even bad sectors (ntfsclone only)

This option works only if you selected the -q option and you're cloning a NTFS partition. It prevents the integrity check of NTFS partitions and speeds the cloning process up a little. However, if the check is disabled, there is a risk that the filesystem is damaged and the image created from it is useless.

+

-rescue Continue reading next one when disk blocks read errors

+

If this option is set, Clonezilla Live continues cloning even if a read error occurs. If there is one, the disk image will be corrupted, but failing hard drives can only be cloned with this option enabled.

+

-fsck-src-part Check and repair source file system before saving

+

This option causes Clonezilla Live to check the integrity of the partition(s) to be cloned. If the filesystem of the partition is damaged, Clonezilla Live also attempts to repair it automatically. Enabling this option reduces the risk that the image contains a damaged filesystem. However, the option is disabled by default because the automatic filesystem repair attempt may cause data loss.

-gm Generate image MD5 checksums

-

Causes Clonezilla Live to calculate MD5 checksum(s) of image(s) created. If the image cets corrupted afterwards, the checksum allows to notice the corruption before the image is restored. Mind you, calculating the checksum takes some time and slows the process down a little.

+

Causes Clonezilla Live to calculate MD5 checksum(s) of image(s) created. If the image gets corrupted afterwards, the checksum allows to notice the corruption before the image is restored. Mind you, calculating the checksum takes some time and slows the process down a little.

-gs Generate image SHA1 checksums

This option is identical to the above, but creates SHA1 checksum(s) instead of MD5. SHA1 is considered to be more accurate checksum algorithm than MD5, but MD5 is more popular.

Compression method [^]

-

-z1        gzip compression (fast with a smaller image)
+

-z1p       Use parallel gzip compression (testing), for multicore/CPU
+-z1        gzip compression (fast with a smaller image)
+-z2p       Use parallel bzip2 compression (testing), for multicore/CPU
-z2        bzip2 compression (slowest but smallest image)
-z3        lzo compression (faster with image size approx. to that of gzip)(NOTE!!)
--z4        lzma compression (slowest but also small image, faster decompression than bzip2)
+-z4        lzma_compression_(slowest_but_also_small_image,_faster_decompression_than_bzip2)
+-z5p       Use_parallel_xz_compression_(testing),_for_multicore/CPU
+-z5        xz_compression_(slowest_but_also_small_image,_faster_decompression_than_bzip2)
+-z6p       Use_parallel_lzip_compression_(testing),_for_multicore/CPU
+-z6        lzip_compression_(slowest_but_also_small_image,_faster_decompression_than_bzip2)
-z0        No compression (fastest but largest image size)

This option chooses the method which is used to compress the image while creating it.

If no compression is used at all, there won't be any negative speed impact caused by compression. However, the image file size is the size of all the data backed up - for example, if you clone a 160 GB hard drive containing 60 gigabytes of data, the resulting disk image will be 60 gigabytes in size.

Gzip and lzop are fast compression methods. Lzop is many times faster than gzip, but creates slightly larger images. Clonezilla Live warns that lzop requires good-quality RAM, but I (the contributor who wrote this chapter) think other compression methods require good RAM too.

-

Bzip2 and lzma are powerful compression methods. Lzma creates a little smaller images than bzip2, and decompressing lzma-compressed images is faster than decompressing bzip2 images. But there is no free lunch: lzma compression method is very slow compared even to bzip2, which isn't fast method either.

+

Bzip2, lzma, xz and lzip are powerful compression methods. Lzma creates a little smaller images than bzip2, and decompressing lzma-compressed images is faster than decompressing bzip2 images. But there is no free lunch: lzma compression method is very slow compared even to bzip2, which isn't fast method either.

+

Lzma method is becoming obsolete, and both xz and lzip are attempting to become its successor. They are a bit less powerful compression methods than lzma, but much faster. The differences between xz and lzip are virtually non-existent.

+

If you don't use the i486 version of Clonezilla-SysRescCD and your processor contains multiple cores and/or supports Hyper-Threading, parallel gzip, bzip2, xz and lzip compression methods are also available. Parallel compression means that each processor core compresses a different part of the image at a time. Without parallel compression one core compresses everything.

+

The speed impact caused by parallel compression depends on the number of processor cores available. In addition, Hyper-Threading increases the speed by about 30 % if parallel compression is used. For example, if your processor contains four cores and supports Hyper-Threading, speed with parallel compression is nearly 5,2 times as high as without. However, parallel compression is currently an experimental feature.

Splitting [^]

This option (command line: -i [number]) decides if the created image files are splitted into smaller pieces, and if yes, how large the pieces are. This setting doesn't usually matter, but some filesystems (most importantly FAT32) don't allow files larger than four gigabytes. If you're saving the disk image to a FAT32 partition, enter 4000 or less. (Value 0 disables splitting, so don't use it in that case.) If the filesystem allows files big enough, enter any value which isn't too small (you don't want to split the image into too many pieces, do you?)

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Clonezilla Live warns that it is no longer safe to disable splitting because value 0 can confuse init. I (the contributor) don't know what the warning exactly means and haven't been able to reproduce the problem. Anyway, entering a very big value, for example 999999999999, is a safe way to keep the image in one piece.

Postaction [^]

-p true        Do nothing when the clone finishes
-p reboot      Reboot client when the clone finishes
@@ -1056,6 +1112,8 @@

This option is useful if you are cloning a small disk to larger one. It tries to resize the restored filesystem to the size of the partition where it was restored to. It allows you to use the whole size of your new disk without resizing the partition afterwards. The option requires that the disk where the image is copied already contains a partition where the image is restored or that the option -k1 is enabled.

-e sfdisk uses the CHS value of hard drive from the saved image

Force to use the saved CHS (cylinders, heads, sectors) when using sfdisk. Of cource, there is no use of it when using any of -j0, -k or -k2 options.

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-icrc Ignore CRC checking of partclone

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This option causes partclone to skip checking the CRC32 checksums of the image. Enabling this option speeds the restore process up. However, if this option is enabled and the -cm and -cs options are disabled, there is no way to notice if the image has corrupted.

-j1 Write MBR (512 B) again after image is restored. Not OK for partition table diffe

When a disk image is restored, the partition table must be updated to reflect the actual partitions in the disk. If you don't want it to happen, enable this option. Then the Master Boot Record (including the partition table) is restored again after restoring the image. Note that using this option can destroy all the data in the target drive.

-j2 Clone the hidden data between MBR and 1st partition

@@ -1085,7 +1143,7 @@

-j0 Use dd to create partition (NOT OK if logical drives exist)

Use dd to dump the partition table from saved image instead of sfdisk.

We read in DRBL FAQ/Q&A:

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When I use clonezilla to clone M$ windows, there is no any problem when saving an image from template machine. However, after the image is restored to another machine, it fails to boot, the error message is "Missing Operating System". What's going on ?

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When I use clonezilla to clone M$ windows, there is no any problem when saving an image from template machine. However, after the image is restored to another machine, it fails to boot, the error message is "Missing Operating System". What's going on ?

Usually this is because GNU/Linux and M$ windows interpret the CHS (cylinder, head, sector) value of harddrive differently. Some possible solutions:
  1. Maybe you can change the IDE harddrive setting in BIOS, try to use LBA instead of auto mode.
  2. Try to choose
@@ -1115,10 +1173,10 @@ prompt, execute the command:

chkdsk /f X:

where X: is the drive letter of the disk. When done, boot back into Clonezilla Live and repeat the backup procedure.

-If the Windows version you use is not XP, boot into SystemRescueCD (graphical mode is not needed) and run the following command: +

If the disk/partition you are trying to backup is not the Windows System disk (usually C:), you can boot Windows, and execute the command in a DOS window. To open a DOS window click Start / Run... and at the prompt Open: type cmd.

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If the Windows version you use is not XP and you're trying to backup the Windows System drive, boot into SystemRescueCD (graphical mode is not needed) and run the following command:

ntfsfix /dev/hda1

where /dev/hda1 is the partition name in GNU/Linux. When done, boot back into Clonezilla Live and repeat the backup procedure.

-If the disk/partition you are trying to backup is not the Windows System disk (usually C:), you can boot Windows, and execute the command in a DOS window. To open a DOS window click Start / Run... and at the prompt Open: type cmd.
  • If Windows XP Recovery Console is not available, you don't have the time to execute the procedure described above, or even if you have executed it but you still get the same message, and you are absolutely sure that you get this message because the NTFS partition is really scheduled for check, and it's not because Windows crushed or have become corrupt, you can mount the patririon by hand and tell Clonezilla Live to use it. Assuming the partition is /dev/hda1, exit the program and execute the commands:

    sudo su -
    ntfs-3g -o force /dev/hda1 /home/partimag
    @@ -1217,8 +1275,12 @@ After that, the backup begins


    -and when it's successfully completed, I will be able to reboot the system by pressing 1 and ENTER. -

    +and when it's successfully completed, I press ENTER to get to the shell. Then, I execute the commands:

    +

    sudo su -
    +cd
    +umount -a
    +reboot

    +

    to reboot the system.

    Getting backups on Samba [^]

    What if you don't have a spare local disk or partition or a USB disk? How will you be able to get a backup of your system? Well, if your PC is on the same LAN with another PC running Windows (or linux), you can use Samba to save your image file on that remote PC (which we will call Samba server from now on).

    @@ -1247,62 +1309,71 @@

    If you need to change these settings, go to the Getting backups page for instructions .

    Screen "Start Clonezilla" [^]

    -

    I select "Start Clonezilla" and press ENTER.

    +


    +I select "Start Clonezilla" and press ENTER. +

    Screen "Clonezilla" [^]

    -

    I select "device-image" and press ENTER.

    -

    Screen "Mount clonezilla image directory" [^

    +


    +I select "device-image" and press ENTER.

    +

    +

    Screen "Mount clonezilla image directory" [^]

    In this screen I can select the way the image file directory will be saved. Available options are local directory, remote directory through ssh, samba or nfs and skip, to use the previously used directory. More info about the image file can be found at section "About the Image file".

    +
    I select "samba server" and press ENTER.

    Screen "Mount Samba Server" [^]

    -

    This is where I have to enter the IP address of my Samba server.

    I type "10.0.0.2" and press ENTER.

    +

    This is where I have to enter the IP address of my Samba server.

    +
    +I type "10.0.0.3" and press ENTER.

    Screen "Mount Samba Server" (second time) [^]

    -

    This is where I have to enter the account (user) name on my Samba server.

    I type "spiros" and press ENTER.

    +

    This is where I have to enter the domain name on my Samba server.

    +
    +I just press ENTER, as there is no domain in my LAN. If there is a domain in your network, you have to type its name (something like my_company.com) and press ENTER.

    Screen "Mount Samba Server" (third time) [^]

    -

    This is where I have to enter the domain name on my Samba server.

    I select "Cancel" and press ENTER, as there is no domain in my LAN. If there is a domain in your network, you have to type its name (something like my_company.com) and press ENTER.

    +

    This is where I have to enter the account (user) name on my Samba server.

    +
    +I type "spiros" and press ENTER.

    Screen "Mount Samba Server" (fourth time) [^]

    -

    This is where I have to enter the directory name on my Samba server, in which the image file will be saved.

    I type "/data" and press ENTER.

    -At this point I will be asked for the password for user spiros. I will be able to continue only after entering it correctly.

    +

    This is where I have to enter the directory name on my Samba server, in which the image file will be saved.

    I type "/all_my_images" and press ENTER.

    +
    +At this point I informed I will be asked for the password for user spiros.

    +
    +I will be able to continue only after entering it correctly.

    +

    Screen "Clonezilla - Opensource Clone System (OCS)" [^]

    -

    I select Beginner mode to accept the default backup options. If you select Expert mode, you can choose the options yourself. More details can be found here.

    -

    Screen "Clonezilla: Select mode" [^]

    -

    Here I can select the desired operation. Available options are:

    -

    savedisk
    -    Save entire disk to image
    -
    -restoredisk
    -    Restore entire disk from image
    -
    -saveparts
    -    Save partition to image
    -
    -restoreparts
    -    Restore partition from image
    -
    -recovery-iso-zip
    -    Create an automated restore CD/DVD/USB drive

    -

    I select "saveparts" and press ENTER.

    -

    Screen "Clonezilla - Opensource Clone System (OCS) | Mode: saveparts" [^]

    -

    This is the name of the image file. You can insert anything you like, as long as it makes sence to you, so that you can distinguish the image file afterwards.
    -
    -I insert "win_img" and press ENTER.

    -

    Next screen [^]

    -

    Here I can select the partition that will be backed up.

    I select "( ) hda1        ntfs" by pressing SPACE and press ENTER, and ENTER again.
    -
    -Then a message is displayed asking for confirmation in order to continue. I just press y, and the backup procedure begins.

    -

    Rebooting the system [^]

    -

    When the backup is done, I get the following:

    -

    (0) Poweroff
    -(1) Reboot
    -(2) Enter command line prompt
    -(3) Start over
    -[2]

    -

    Then I press ENTER and get to the shell. I execute the commands:

    +

    +
    I select Beginer mode to accept the default backup options. If you select Expert mode, you can choose the options yourself. More details can be found here.

    +

    Screen "Select mode" [^]

    +

    Here I can select the desired operation.
    +
    +
    +I select "savedisk" and press ENTER.

    +

    Next Screen [^]

    +


    +In this screen I select the image name.
    +I type "Backup_5-2010_hdb", which in my opinion is more informative name than the default. +

    +

    Next Screen [^]

    +


    +Finally I am asked to select the partition to save.
    +I just press ENTER again. +

    +

    Starting the backup [^]

    +


    +Then the program will display the command that will be executed and will ask me to press ENTER.
    +Then I will be asked to confirm the operation by pressing y and ENTER. +
    +

    +After that, the backup begins
    +
    +
    +and when it's successfully completed, I press ENTER to get to the shell. Then, I execute the commands:

    sudo su -
    cd
    umount -a
    reboot

    +

    to reboot the system.

    @@ -3144,13 +3215,13 @@
    1. In Clonezilla Live

      Type -

      less /live/image/README.txt

      +

      less /README.txt

    2. In SystemRescueCD

      Type -

      less /mnt/livecd/README.txt

      +

      less /livemnt/boot/README.txt

      or -

      links /mnt/livecd/README.html

      +

      links /livemnt/boot/README.html

      to view the html pages in links web browser.

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