Restore Partitions Over the Network Using Clonezilla

Clonezilla is back-up and restore software that is a powerful alternative to Symantec’s famous, yet expensive, commercial software Norton Ghost.

Do you often format your partition and reinstall Windows along with other software because of malware intrusion, hard disk failure or for some other reason? You may be wasting hours reinstalling and configuring the system the way it was before it was formatted. You may be a cluster manager or a lab assistant, managing hundreds of homogeneous systems. fn which case, you can set up a single system with the desired configuration, make an image of this system and then deploy this image to other nodes in the network. All of this can be easily done using Clonezilla. Clonezilla is used for back-up and recovery of partitions and disks of dNU, Linux, MS Windows, fntel-based Mac OS, FreeBSD, NETBSD and many other systems. A stable release of Clonezilla can be downloaded from http:LLsourceforge.netLprojectsLclonezillaL filesLclonezilla_live_stableL. The current release is 133 MB in size. You can burn the downloaded fSO to a CDLDsD or make a bootable USB pen drive using Universal USB Installer.

fn this article, f will be using Clonezilla to take a backup and restore the Windows partition on a NFS server.