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To address these limitations, we have combined Debian Live with Clonezilla as "Clonezilla Live," a software that can be used to easily image and clone individual machines. The primary benefit of Clonezilla Live is that it eliminates the need to set up a DRBL server ahead of time and the need for the computer being deployed to boot from a network. Clonezilla Live can be used to image or clone individual computers using a CD/DVD or USB flash drive. Though the image size is limited by the boot media's storage capacity, this problem can be eliminated by using a network filesystem such as sshfs or samba.
2. How to install Clonezilla Live ? To install Clonezilla live, the basic steps are to download pre-build Clonezilla Live then put it in a boot media (CD, USB flash drive or USB hard drive). Two types of files are available, iso and zip. The former one is for CD, the latter is for USB flash drive. Besides, you can put Clonezilla live on hard drive or PXE server, too.

For CD/DVD:
For USB flash drive or USB hard drive:
For hard drive:
For PXE server:

If you are interested in creating the Clonezilla live iso or zip file from scratch, check this doc. //New for creating Clonezilla live 2.x!//.3. How to use Clonezilla live ?Please refer to this doc for more details.4. Accounts In Clonezilla live, two accounts are available: (1) account "user" with sudo privilege, password is "live", (2) administration account "root", no password. Therefore you can not login as root, the only way to get root privilege is to login as user, and run "sudo -i" or "sudo su -" to become root.
For better security, it is recommended to change the passwords of user and root by command "passwd" before you allow remote access. When Clonezilla live boots, the ssh service is NOT automatically started, and the setting in /etc/hosts.deny does NOT block any connection. If you want to remotely ssh login into your Clonezilla live, you have to start ssh service by "service ssh start".
5. Advanced modes Some advanced modes are available:

Create your own recovery CD or USB flash drive.
Use your own script and run it on clonezilla live.
Use boot parameters to pre-set some selections
The reserved image and device names for the command ocs-sr

how to download and use clonezilla

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To download Clonezilla live, select the following CPU architecture and file type, then click the download button:
Release branch: stable,Clonezilla live version: 3.1.1-271. Select CPU architecture:amd64i686-paei686
2. Select file type:zipiso
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Notes

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) has dropped the support for i386 architecture. Therefore we do not release i386 Ubuntu-based Clonezilla live for Ubuntu >= 19.10, only amd64 (x86-64) arch is available.
Once you have the Clonezilla live iso or zip file, please follow this Live CD/USB doc to put it on the boot media, and follow this Live Docs to use it.

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For Ubuntu-based branch, i.e. alternative stable and alternative testing ones, 2 CPU architectures are available:
1. amd64, for use on PCs with AMD64 or Intel 64 processors. It supports multi-core processor, and multiprocessor.
2. i686, general purpose for 386 CPU. It supports multi-core processor, and multiprocessor. PAE (Physical Address Extension) is supported.
If you are not sure which one fits your machine, try i686 version first (slowest, but works for almost modern x86 CPUs). However, if you need uEFI secure boot, please use AMD64 version of Clonezilla live.
For Debian-based branch, i.e. stable and testing ones, 3 CPU architectures are available:
1. amd64, for use on PCs with AMD64 or Intel 64 processors. It supports multi-core precessor, and multiprocessor.
2. i686-pae, optimized for i686 CPU supporting PAE. It supports multi-core processor, and multiprocessor.
3. i686, general purpose for 686 CPU. It supports one or more processors not supporting PAE.
If you are not sure which one fits your machine, try i686 version first (slowest, but works for almost modern x86 CPUs). However, if you need uEFI secure boot, please use AMD64 version of Clonezilla live.
For more info, please check this Q&A.
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About file type

ISO file is for CD/DVD.
Zip file is for USB flash drive or USB hard drive

About repositoryThere are 1 repositories of Clonezilla you can download:

Nowadays the PC or laptop mostly comes without CD/DVD drive. In this case, an USB flash drive or USB hard drive is the best way to boot Clonezilla live. You can follow the following to make a bootable Clonezilla live USB flash drive or hard drive using either:

MS Windows
GNU/Linux
MacOS

Requirements:

Microsoft Windows 7/8/10, GNU/Linux or MacOS.
Internet access for downloading a distribution to install, or a pre-downloaded ISO file.
A USB flash drive or USB hard drive has the MBR (msdos) partition table and a free partition. If you want to create a bootable USB flash drive/hard drive only for uEFI boot mode, it can be either GPT (recommended) or MBR (msdos) format.

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I looked the instructions on Clonezilla and using and modifying the method described there with a TON of trial and error I managed to load clonezilla from grub by using following line in /etc/grub.d/40_custom
The drive in question is a mechanical WD red formated in ntfs and the iso file is stored in / of that drive if that matters.

i want to create/restore an image of a system completely unattended with an clonezilla-live usb-stick. So far the unattended backup/restore works fine. I just plug in the stick, boot up the pc and after the work is done the pc shut down.

There is no command within clonezilla to do it
but
if you look inside the clonezilla savedisc directory you can see that each partition is a separate image file. So, in theory, you could take the image of one partition, feed it to clonezille somehow?, and restore it.

I was asking myself this very question a long time ago. I like clonezilla a lot and I think its a very good means for backup puposes.
So I took my question to askubuntu and found out it can be done.

Now after restoring the partitions I sadly cannot mount the btrfs partition anymore, and of course the clonezilla backup was supposed to be my working backup.
Mounting the partition just results in getting the following dmesg errors:

I suggest restoring the backup to the same hardware it came from, with no changes in partition size. I have little experience but I suspect that restoring into a VM has problems, maybe with clonezilla.

I have not tried what you describe with clonezilla, so cannot be sure. Disconnection of the original drive (after verifying UUIDs it contains) then comparing those UUIDs to the ones on the new drive would be a start. Look at the drive UUID as well as the file system UUIDs and at the UUID that displays in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg and for the /boot partition and the /boot/efi partition. Look also at the UUIDs shown in /etc/fstab.