Is Clonezilla safe?

i9i · Jul 15, 2015

I am looking for software to create an images of my PCs. This would permit total recovery of a PC, should it crash. I tried Acronis, but in my case it could not handle Windows 7 (many other people had the same experience.) Clonezilla claims to be capable, but some web sites say it has spyware...other people claim that it's OK and the exe file just triggers antivirus reports. Question: is Clonezilla safe? Are there other programs that are known to be free of malware? (I read the Paragon manual, but could not understand the translation.)

Kiril1512 · Jul 15, 2015

Clonzilla is safe and good. For now, no problems using it...

SinxarKnights · Jul 15, 2015

Just make sure you get it from the source instead of third party download sites: http://clonezilla.org/

USAFRet · Jul 15, 2015

Currently, I am using Casper for that function. Not free, but there is a trial for it.
Best one I've used. And I've tried Acronis, Easus Todo, CloneZilla, Macrium Reflect, DriveImageXML.

skittle · Jul 15, 2015

that all sounds like a lot of work when you could just boot a live linux cd/usb and run:

Code:

# dd if=/dev/sdX bs=64K | gzip -c  > /path/to/backup.img.gz

USAFRet · Jul 15, 2015

skittle :

that all sounds like a lot of work when you could just boot a live linux cd/usb and run:

Code:

# dd if=/dev/sdX bs=64K | gzip -c  > /path/to/backup.img.gz

Once installed, any of those applications are trivial to use.
Click click, image done.

McHenryB · Jul 16, 2015

skittle :

that all sounds like a lot of work when you could just boot a live linux cd/usb and run:

Code:

# dd if=/dev/sdX bs=64K | gzip -c  > /path/to/backup.img.gz

Unlike Clonezilla, that creates an image of the whole partition whether blocks are used or not. Clonezilla is more efficient as it only has to look at used blocks; it will fall back to the less efficient "dd" if it doesn't recognize the file system.

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