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Re:Clonezilla: Disk Imaging and Cloning by paulmd on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:55AM (#13128682)
Please read the list of "limitations" on that page. Macrium Reflect Free has none of them, and is my choice of programs for cloning disks across nowadays.

I don't want to besmirch the name of someone's good work of course. But I used Clonezilla a couple years ago and it was antiquated in both interface and features compared to Reflect. A live image and a resize while doing an intelligent copy of the actual in-use data (vs a whole-disk forensic image) is absolutely no problem. It's by far the easiest thing I've ever used for disk-to-disk clones and imaging.

Clonezilla takes a solid knowledge of Linux even to get the job done in many cases, it's not full featured, and I found it was not particularly solid on my hardware. I preferred the plain Ubuntu LiveCD versus it, or at a minimum SystemRescueCD if you insisted on a rescue-oriented livesystem.

Neither tool used 7zip/p7zip to hit maximum compression, but it's easy either way. You do that later on your fileserver.

Re:Clonezilla: Disk Imaging and Cloning by voltagex_ on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:47AM (#13128843)
I moved to Macrium after using Clonezilla for ages. For Windows imaging you really want something that'll use Shadow Copy so it can do the image while the machine is in use.

I'd argue that the interface for setting up incremental backups could be better, and scheduled tasks can result in an unkillable prompt - when my laptop isn't on my LAN, I don't want the backups to run at all.

Re:Clonezilla: Disk Imaging and Cloning by kasabali on Monday December 12, 2016 @09:19AM (#13158133)
Macrium Reflect is superb.

Last year when migrating to a new HDD I cloned the Windows partition using Clonezilla, just to be met with BSOD immediately. I wasted 2 days trying to figure out what's the problem, Windows boot recovery, driver injection etc. After 2 days I created a Macrium Reflect live media, cloned the original partition again with it and voila! Windows booted successfully in the first try.

I'll never use Clonezilla again because I value my time.

Re:Clonezilla: Disk Imaging and Cloning by j_s on Thursday December 08, 2016 @11:22AM (#13131362)
AOMEI Partition Assistant Lite probably falls in the same category, claiming to be the only commercial tool that can resize partitions that is free for commercial use. I've used it to shrink partitions that Windows couldn't due to system files in use.

http://www.disk-partition.com/partition-assistant-lite.html

Re:Clonezilla: Disk Imaging and Cloning by iammyIP on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:04AM (#13129057)
Biggest limitation of macrium is that it runs on windows only.
Re:Clonezilla: Disk Imaging and Cloning by ComodoHacker on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:59AM (#13129225)
Looks like Free edition is not offered anymore.
Re:Clonezilla: Disk Imaging and Cloning by syntheticnature on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:36AM (#13130487)
It's still there, but might have been obscured from the front page: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

(I used it about a month ago to attempt to clone a failing drive after Clonezilla choked and died horribly. It got significantly further, not sure if going to it first would've helped more.)

Re:Clonezilla: Disk Imaging and Cloning by pnutjam on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:43AM (#13130954)
No love for fsarchiver? http://www.fsarchiver.org/