<div dir="ltr">It depends what you want to use it for. If you're looking for a quick and easy clone - go with Live. If you want more robust tools and the possibility of mass cloning over the network or even having a network cloning server with an image repository, SE is your best bet. FOG is probably the more popular option for a network cloning server and image repository, however for the BIOS compatibility reasons I state below, I ended up going with CloneZilla SE for that purpose.<div><br></div><div><b>CloneZilla Live</b> is what I use to directly clone one computer to another. It's fast, and once you use it a few times, pretty easy. The scary part is getting over the "I hope I don't overwrite the wrong hard drive here" fear. The main advantage is simplicity and a faster boot up time versus SE. I believe you can actually do PXE booting / cloning with it, however I have not used it for that purpose personally. I usually clone from an image on an external HDD or from another computer.</div><div><br></div><div><b>CloneZilla SE (Server Edition)</b> Is much more robust, but it is overkill for simple jobs like cloning one computer to another. Server Edition also offers more tools like GParted, which you can use to format partitions, and a visual GUI for doing those kinds of things. There are two ways to use CloneZilla SE - the "live" version that you use by creating bootable media using their ISO image, which then boots you into a DRBL environment with an X-Windows GUI, or by actually installing it on a DRBL system. Personally, I am not very familiar with DRBL, so I went with the Live version. Someday I would like to take the time to actually create a DRBL server install with CloneZilla on it.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Example SE use: </b>Last year I rolled out 16 new public computers for our main location and 8 for our branch location using CloneZilla SE in a virtualized environment on our VMWare host. I still have that server actually, although I haven't had need to use it. In theory I could store images of computers on that server, PXE boot a computer or multiple computers, and reload them over the network. I created one public computer exactly how I wanted it, created an image of it on our virtual CloneZilla SE server, and then set up all of our new public computers to PXE boot and pushed out that image to all of them simultaneously over the network. It went off without any problems, although it did take a LONG time to push that many images out over our network due to bottlenecks. I think I started on a Sunday morning when we were closed, and it finished up very early Monday morning. It took somewhere around 18-20 hours for them all to finish. It was still well before we opened, but then I had to go to each one and connect it to the domain, test them out to make sure all services were running, etc. Had I known it was going to take that long, I would have started when we closed Saturday evening.</div><div><br></div><div>I actually wanted to use FOG over CloneZilla SE, however the public computers that we bought had a very new BIOS that was not supported by FOG. I got everything ready to go with FOG on a virtual server, but when I tried to create an image, it failed due to unsupported BIOS errors. I read through the Wikipedia and other sites on it, tried loading different kernels, but nothing worked, and when I looked at the date of the BIOS revision (2013), I saw that the last time the kernel and supported BIOS sets was updated for FOG was a year or two before that. So the FOG Kernel simply couldn't support my computers BIOS. Maybe there was a way around it, but after tinkering with it for a week in my spare time, I was ready to try CloneZilla instead.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps. I'm happy to answer any questions about using the SE version.. although it has been nearly a year since I used it, and I'm definitely no expert on either SE or Linux.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Jim Lack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:J.Lack@rrpl.org" target="_blank">J.Lack@rrpl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I’m looking for a way to clone computers as needed. I’ve heard people on this list talk about Clonezilla. Started researching this and I see there are two versions,
Clonezilla Live and Clonezilla SE. Can anyone recommend one over the other? What are the disk space requirements as I was unable to find that info. Can it be loaded on desktop hardware or does it have to be loaded on a full-fledged server (Clonezilla SE)?
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