Comments on: How to Clone or Backup Linux Disk Using Clonezilla

By: Jan Greeff

Jan Greeff — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 04:02:47 +0000

Thanks for the detailed tutorial. My Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Unity is on a 120GB SSD and I want to clone it to a new 250GB SSD and then install the new SSD in my machine using "expert mode" to adjust partitions to the larger drive and boot from there in future. Am I on the right track?

By: Rick F.

Rick F. — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:47:20 +0000

Love Clonezilla, and use it a lot on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine. But does anyone know of another true cloning software that will clone to a slightly smaller drive? I have a new 1Tb SSD that is about 3 bytes larger than the 1Tb HDD I replaced, that still works great but isn't as fast as the SSD. I would just like to keep a complete backup on the old drive, just in case...

By: Rick F.

Rick F. — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:40:14 +0000

In reply to Donovan Keith.

Donovan Keith,

The solution I’ve used on an Ubuntu machine (works the same on Mint) is to use Gparted and just re-size the partition on the new machine. You’ll get warnings that you risk damaging the data, but I’ve never had an issue. I guess the worst that could happen is that you’d have to start over! -which I had to do once…no biggie…

By: rescuezilla

rescuezilla — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:19:26 +0000

For a much easier to use drop-in replacement to Clonezilla, checkout “Rescuezilla“.

Rescuezilla is a Clonezilla GUI/frontend: Clonezilla can restore images created by Rescuezilla and vice versa!

By: Sharan

Sharan — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 01:06:57 +0000

Thank you! I was able to clone my Linux Mint to the new SDD.