clonezilla-live config
- unlike Microsoft Windows, unix-like systems installation like BSD or GNU/Linux need only a few GB
- usb sticks with 8 GB and more are now really cheap
- yes, clonezilla is fine
- yes, clonezilla server version is very fine
- but sometimes, it’s pretty fine too to be able to backup and restore system disks/partitions images from only 1 usb stick.
- so let’s go
As I spent some time on this project, I wrote here a memo about “clonezilla live” on USB stick config
Here are the few importants highlights, in near future, i’ll post an complete version with all commands :
- create the clonezilla like described on their page
- boot on the USB stick and choose “clonezilla-live in RAM” mode under “Other clonezilla-live modes” menu.
- if you booted the “in RAM” version, you could select your usb stick in the “user_local” window
- select the root (/) directory from the usb stick to store the image
- give it a explicit name, my choose is “YYYYMMDD-model-osversion”
- when image is created, mount the stick and move the image directory (for me : /YYYYMMDD-model-osversion) to /home/partimage directory of the usb stick
- for automated restoration modify the file /syslinux/syslinux.cfg with a section like this (under MENU) :
label restore mybox
MENU DEFAULT
# MENU HIDE
MENU restore mybox
# MENU PASSWD
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs hostname=lucid quiet noswap edd=on noprompt ocs_live_run=”ocs-live-restore” ocs_live_extra_param=”-g auto -p reboot restoredisk 20100608-dell-vostro320 sda” ocs_live_keymap=”/usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr-latin9.kmap.gz” ocs_live_batch=”no” ocs_lang=”fr_FR.UTF-8” video=uvesafb:mode_option=1024x768-32 ip=frommedia nosplash
TEXT HELP
image restoration of my lovely linux box
ENDTEXT - comment out the other MENU DEFAULT entry from MENU section.
