[OPLINTECH] Clonezilla Portable Hard Drive

[Robert Ball]

We are testing Clonezilla with favorable results.  I set up Clonezilla
to boot from a thumb drive (aside from a portable HDD holding the
images) with no problems.  

 

Works like a charm, really quick (10Min image creation, 5 Min image
duplication), also makes it easier to upgrade the Clonezilla image when
a new version comes out.  I followed these instructions:
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/liveusb.php

 

We use these nifty Toshiba External Portable HDD, powered over USB,
small and compatible with anything.  

 

 

 

The only issue we've had with Clonezilla is with older drives (greater
than 5 years), image duplication fails (most likely because of bad
sectors). 

 

Let me know if you have any more questions.

 

Rob Ball
Network Support Specialist

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] 
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:29 PM
To: Oplintech at Oplin.Org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Clonezilla Portable Hard Drive

 

Curious if anyone out there in LIbrary Tech land is booting CloneZilla
from a portable harddrive and if so how is working out for you?

Also, does anyone have a preference for a particular drive?  

CDWG has a 1TB Western Digital My Book for about $110 which sounds like
a pretty nice drive for cloning PCs on the go.

thanks,


Eric Maynard
Head of Information Technology,
Holmes County District Public Library
Millersburg, OH  44654
Email [emaynard at holmeslib.org]
Phone [330.674.5972 x.224]
Fax   [330.674.1938] 

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