<div dir="ltr">Jim, <div><br></div><div>It just occurred to me that I only answered part of your questions.<div><br></div><div>The Clonezilla Live is a boot CD. You don't install it anywhere. Although you can set it up to boot from the network via PXE remote boot, as I mentioned before. You'd need to set up a few things like a TFTP server, etc. That type of thing is documented all over Google.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Since you don't install Clonezilla Live, there are no disk space requirements on the computer you're trying to image. Since you're booting outside of the operating system installed on the computer, you can clone NTFS or FAT (Common Windows partitions), along with a number of common *nix partitions (I assume, but almost never do) (ext2, ext3, etc.). I think it can also handle unknown disks via raw copies.</div><div><br></div><div>I haven't used Clonezilla SE myself, but I'm pretty certain it runs from a linux-based server. It probably has a TFTP server and I'm guessing you can either boot the client computers via PXE network boot or probably via a boot CD. The server would require a reasonably small amount of storage for the OS and clonezilla itself, but you'd need enough storage capacity to store the computer images. You would need to determine the size of the storage based solely on your own unique needs. If you're building computers that have 35GB of data in the OS and programs, you'll need that much free space on the server to store one copy of the master image. If you plan on having more versions of the computer, you'll need more capacity on the server. Plan accordingly.</div><div><br></div><div>In my own case, since I'm usually doing small quantities at a time, I often will simply create an "Images" share on a Windows Server and often an "Images" user account for simplicity. The Clonezilla boot CD can use a SMB datastore (ie Windows Share) to save/restore images. I name the share "Images" because that causes the least amount of keystrokes when connecting to a Windows share in Clonezilla (when selecting to connect to a SMB share, it uses "Images" as a default).</div><div><br></div><div>All-in-all Clonezilla Liveboot is pretty easy to use. Just follow the interview prompts. Test in a virtual machine (if you have one) or a scrap computer if you're nervous the first time around. (Probably good advice, no matter what imaging software you use.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div>Chad</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>______________________________<br><b>Chad Neeper</b><br><font size="1">Senior Systems Engineer</font><br><br><b>Level 9 Networks</b><br><font size="1">740-548-8070 (voice)<br>866-214-6607 (fax)</font><br><br><font size="1"><i>Full IT/Computer consulting services -- Specialized in libraries and schools</i></font><br></div></div></div></div>
<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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