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More menu's to follow unfortunately and these are getting more and more important as they are moving to which disks are to be cloned and when your restoring, where to. At this point CloneZilla does not provide the best explanation of what you are doing for those who don't like all the computer speak and may even be slightly confusing to those of you that do. To avoid any confusion we will stick to the simple disk imaging that we are going for and so you will need to select "local_dev - Use local device" This indicates that the device is native to your system and once selected the program will scan your computer for possible drives and partitions to be created into an image.
All available hard drives an partitions will then be displayed for selection. Select the source you require to make the image file and press enter again.
CloneZilla
now requires you to tell it what action you require to carry out on the
selected drive. the options are save disk, restore disk, save parts and
restore parts. Save and restore disk create or restores an image of an
entire disk. Save and restore parts creates or restores images of individual
partitions within the selected disk. After this you will be given another
option about compression. Fortunately the explanations about the compression
are much better than some of the previous screens. CloneZilla will give
options regarding what type of compression to be used. They range in format,
file size and the time it will take to do the compression. Select the
smallest file size if disk space is a big issue or the fastest compression
time if you require the job in a hurry, fairly self explanatory.
Still a couple more questions to come, easy ones for a change regarding splitting the image file if required to make individual CD's and another option for the computer to switch off after the process is complete. Then the image will start to be created. It goes without saying that its important not to interrupt the computer while this process is happening, even more important when restoring an image.
Even though some of the language is a little baffling at times, once you get used to way that CloneZilla operates it gets a lot easier. If you have the available backup space on a second hard drive or external hard drive, the method of backing up the whole hard drive is in the end a lot more efficient and prevents the needs to select the files that are of the most importance to you. Standard backup tools require you to choose your files and most cannot backup your windows installation for you. Cloning your hard drive means you can have everything back the way you left it on your latest backup without having to install any of your programs and applications.
Panther Products recommends CloneZilla as a great free tool. You may get a better level of support from Norton Ghost and it might be a little easier to understand but with a little time to understand CloneZilla it can do the job just as well
Find CloneZilla at http://clonezilla.org/
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