Clonezilla Backups

Procedure

1. Boot from Clonezilla USB or disc (you may need to enable or select in BIOS/Boot screen)
2. At the boot screen, select the default "Clonezilla live (Default settings, VGA 800x600)" boot mode.
3. At the "Choose language" screen, select the default "en_US.UTF-8 English" language.
4. At the "Configuring console-data" screen, select the default "Don't touch keymap" policy.
5. At the "Start Clonezilla" screen, select the default "Start_Clonezilla" mode.
6. At the first "Clonezilla - Opensource Clone System (OCS)" screen, select the default "device-image" mode.
7. At the "Mount Clonezilla image directory" screen, select the "nfs_server" mode.
8. At the "Network config" screen, select the default "dhcp" mode.
9. At the "NFS version" screen, select the "nfs4 NFS v4" version.
10. At the first "Mount NFS server" screen, enter "10.2.0.18" for the IP address.
11. At the second "Mount NFS server" screen, select the default "/partimag/" directory.
12. At the Press "Enter" to continue prompt, press Enter.
13. At the second "Clonezilla - Opensource Clone System (OCS)" screen, select the default "Beginner" mode.
14. At the "Clonezilla - Opensource Clone System (OCS): Select mode" screen, select the default "savedisk" mode.
15. At the first "Clonezilla - Opensource Clone System (OCS) | Mode: savedisk" screen, append the hostname to the image name. Ex: -bigroompublicpc
16. At the second "Clonezilla - Opensource Clone System (OCS) | Mode: savedisk" screen, select all disks.
17. At the first "Clonezilla advanced extra parameters | Mode: savedisk" screen, select the default "-sfsck" option.
18. At the second "Clonezilla advanced extra parameters | Mode: savedisk" screen, select the default "Yes, check the saved image" option.
19. At the third "Clonezilla advanced extra parameters | Mode: savedisk" screen, select the default "-senc" option.
20. At the "Mode: savedisk" screen, select the default "-p choose" action.
21. At the Press "Enter" to continue prompt, press Enter.
22. At the "Are you sure you want to continue (y/n)" prompt, select y.
23. Monitor the "Partclone" process for each disk.
24. At the Press "Enter" to continue prompt, press Enter.
25. At the "Choose mode" screen, select the "reboot" mode.
26. At the "Please remove the live-medium" prompt, remove the boot media and then press Enter.

Notes from experience

• Do a couple of test restores.
• On Windows boxes you may need to do a boot repair on after a clonezilla restore. Not a big deal, but scary at first when the box doesn't boot after a restore.
• When some RHEL/CentOS boxes restore to a different hard drive, it may end up horribly broken because the GUID/UUID of the HDD device changed, which required a rebuild instead of a restore.
• YMMV, and test, test, test.