Software Update: Clonezilla Live 2.7.3-19

Clonezilla is an open source program for creating disk images. Among other things, it is possible to make backups of partitions or of the entire hard disk, or a copy of a hard disk: a so-called clone. Clonezilla is therefore an open source variant of Macrium Reflect and Acronis True Image. The whole thing is based on a Debian distribution and it uses DRBL, Partclone and udpcast. Clonezilla live is intended for standalone computers, while Clonezilla server and SE up to 40 computers can be imaged simultaneously. With version number 2.7.3-19 a new stable release of Clonezilla has been released and the changelog of that version looks like this:

Enhancements and changes

• The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2021/Aug/17).
• Linux kernel was updated to 5.10.46-1.
• ocs-restore-mdisks: support wildcard for device name. Eg, ocs-restore-mdisks -b -a choose -p “-g auto -e1 auto -e2 -r -j2 -c -scr -p true” focal-mbr-20210531 sd*
• ocs-restore-mdisks: “all” can be used as all non-busy local disks Ref: It will countdown 15 secs, not 7 secs before going on for the device name is assigned as “all”
• Update USAGE about the option -j2 for ocs-sr. Add warning messages about skipping option “-j2” (clone_hidden_data) when it’s in restoreparts.
• Package python3-crypto was removed since it’s not used in Clonezilla live.
• Add short options -bm & -em for the beginner/expert modes in: drbl-ocs, ocs-live-feed-img, ocs-onthefly, ocs-restore-mdisks, and ocs-sr.
• Support mounting bitlocker device as image repository. Thanks to fiddyschmitt for requesting this. Ref
• ocs-clean-part-fs is renamed as ocs-clean-disk-part-fs.
• Add the mechanism to clean the RAID metadata in disk in ocs-clean-disk-part-fs.
• Improve the mechanism to expand LVM when -k1 (hence -r) is enabled.
• ocs-expand-lvm: add a new program to expand LVM.
• ocs-resize-part: instead of checking device format, check if it exists.
• Append “–force” to the “–rescue” option for Partclone to run in rescue mode. Ref

Bug fixes

• Improved the mechanism to judge /dev/md* is a disk or partition. Thanks to Enrix for reporting this issue. Ref
• update-efi-nvram-boot-entry: should test if shimx64.efi exists before grubx64.efi. Ref
• The ntfsclone without compression image was not detected correctly. Ref