2. Start Clonezilla
Restart Windows or start the computer with
the Clonezilla CD in the drive, and after a few seconds, a menu is displayed
with the most awful colour scheme you've ever seen. Clonezilla's interface is
character-based and it is not graphical. You may still be able to use the
mouse, but you'll see a block and not a mouse pointer.
It's best to use the keyboard, though.
Press the up/down arrow keys and tab to highlight options and Enter to continue.
The first item on the menu and the one
selected by default is Clonezilla Live with default settings of VGA 800x600.
This should be fine for most people, but if you want to use a different screen
resolution, then you have 30 seconds in which to select 'Other modes of
Clonezilla live'. There are options to select 640x480, 1024x768 and safe
graphics mode. Escape returns to the previous menu.
Clonezilla then asks you to select a
language and English is the default, so you can press Enter to continue. It provides
four options for the keyboard, but it's best to select 'Don't touch keymap'. If
you have problems with the keyboard, restart the computer and when you reach
the keyboard selection screen again, choose 'Select keymap from arch list'.
Select the QWERTY keyboard layout and then British for the layout. Finally,
there's an option to either start Clonezilla or enter the command line shell.
Select Clonezilla.
The
default startup settings are fine, but higher screen resolutions are available
3. Select The Backup Device
When Clonezilla starts, it asks whether you
want to use 'deviceimage' or 'device-device' and there's an important
difference. Choose device-device if you want to clone one disk drive to another
and make them the same. Everything on the destination disk is erased and the
contents of the source disk is copied. This is useful if you want to create a
disk drive that you can simply slot in if the one in your computer fails. Just
plug it in and boot up to continue from the date of the last backup.
Although device-device is useful in some
circumstances, a better backup option is device-image. This copies the source
disk and saves it as an image file on the destination disk. Clonezilla only
copies used sectors on the disk, so the backup file is only as big as the
contents of the disk and not the capacity of the disk. Using device-image also
enables you to store backup images on USB drives, networked drives and
computers and so on -anywhere with sufficient storage space.
After selecting device-image in Clonezilla,
you're then asked to choose the image directory. This is the location to store
the backup file. The options include local disk drives and network resources.
Backing up to a second internal disk drive or a USB drive is straightforward
and very easy. Select 1ocal_dev' when asked where to save the Clonezilla image.
A list of drives and partitions is displayed. The PC's internal disk is called
'sda', with partitions called 'sda1’, 'sda2' and so on. A second disk or USB
drive is called 'sdb' and its partitions are called 'sdb1’, 'sdb2' and so on.
Typically, you will back up sda (internal disk) to sdb (second or USB disk).
After selecting the destination drive, a list of folders is displayed and you
can choose where to store the backup image. Skip the next section on networking
if you're backing up to a USB drive.
Select
the backup device. A USB drive is local dev and a NAS drive is samba server
