Clonezilla an Open and Flexible Imaging-Based Architecture for System Deployment
Clonezilla An Open and Flexible Imaging-based Architecture for System Deployment Steven Shiau, Ceasar Sun, Jazz Wang, Thomas Tsai {steven , ceasar , jazz , thomas }@ nchc . org . tw Free Software Lab NCHC, Taiwan ABSTRACT Clonezilla is an open-source disk imaging and cloning suite. It Saving disk image Restoring disk image is based on Partclone, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and UDPcast Start with features such as plug-ins for subsystems like partitioning and Start a multicast mode for massive deployments. In this research, its Parse partition Find the file table system of Read image open architecture (Figure 1 and 2) and the comparisons (Table 1 device and 2) with other similar software would be presented. NO Create partition table Use dd http://clonezilla.org , http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/ to save Smart Create LV if LV Find the copying? image Device to image found in (partition stdout image dir FEATURES /LV) YES Decide partclone Free (GPL) Software device YES partimage File systems supported: Ext2/3/4, ReiserFS, Reiser4, XFS, JFS, imaging p p Save Find the Decide n ntfsclone a a engine t MBR/GPT data r Btrfs (testing), HFS+, FAT, NTFS , UFS+ and VMFS (Table 1) f image r t device s t i c c Linux Logical Volume Manager 2 (LVM2) stackable block device of m l imaging l o o Save device device a n n (Table 2) is supported engine g e Save partition image to stdout e e Grub 1 and grub 2 is supported table gzip NO Serial console is supported Decide bzip2 Tune the file compressing lzma Multicast supported in Clonezilla Server Edition (SE) engine lzip system size to fit Save xz partition size Restore the The MBR, partition table, partition(s) or entire disk(s) can be hardware info image of saved and restored Save stdin as Reinstall grub device to Smart copying on supported file systems whereas use sector-to- file in the device sector copying via dd image dir if assigned A tunable image format is implemented (Figure 2) End End Imaging and compressing engines can be easily added Figure 1.
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