Clonezilla is a disk imaging and cloning toolkit primarily used from live boot media. It is commonly used for bare-metal recovery, lab imaging, and disk migration workflows.
- Bare-metal image backups and restores.
- Mass workstation/lab imaging workflows.
- Migration to replacement disks of equal or larger size.
- Partition and full-disk imaging.
- Local and network image targets.
- Unattended and multicast workflows (advanced DRBL scenarios).
- Broad filesystem and Linux hardware support through live environment tools.
- Debian-based live environment
- Clonezilla/Partclone tooling
- Clonezilla Live release notes currently list
3.3.0-33 (September 8, 2025).
- Primary usage remains boot-media workflows rather than long-running host services.
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