Clonezilla-live-3.0.2-21-amd64.iso (2025)

Select to let Clonezilla handle the heavy lifting. Choose savedisk to back up the entire drive.

You remember the Windows Vista upgrade of 2007? Never again. Before hitting "Update" on Windows 11 24H2, you boot Clonezilla and backup your entire 1TB SSD to an external 2TB drive. If the update fails, you don't spend 6 hours reinstalling games and tax software. You restore the image in 45 minutes. clonezilla-live-3.0.2-21-amd64.iso

You have 50 new Dell OptiPlex machines. Instead of installing Windows, drivers, and Office on each one manually, you configure ONE machine perfectly. Then, you boot clonezilla-live-3.0.2-21-amd64.iso on that source machine and create a stored on a network server (Samba/NFS) or an external USB hard drive. Then, you boot the 49 target machines using the same ISO and "restore" that image. In 20 minutes, 49 machines are cloned. Select to let Clonezilla handle the heavy lifting

For the uninitiated, Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to Symantec Ghost or Acronis True Image, but with the distinct advantage of being free and open-source software (FOSS). It is developed by the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan. Never again