Saturday, April 14, 2012

Clonezilla cloning fully unattended

(Updated 24 August 2012) Clonezilla full automated cloning with a bootable USB-Stick. Tutorial with deep explanation.
At the end 0 Steps are required to clone a hard disk.

Clonezilla unattended.pdf

Let me know if you have something to add, if I missed something or if it is working well for you!
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19 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 25, 2012 at 1:20 PM

    very nice blog, howerver, I have one more question do you know how to edit the menus in clonezilla prompt? for example the word in the selection of the drive to clone.

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  2. DavidMay 25, 2012 at 2:03 PM

    I do not understand your question, can you be more clear? Maybe post and image from what you are meaning.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 24, 2012 at 3:01 PM

    Very nice doc indeed, I have been looking for this several hours...
    I have seen a little error I think, you say we can use the "auto" option to get the name of the image automatically but it seems that it's "autoname" instead.

    Gilles

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  4. DavidAugust 24, 2012 at 3:33 PM

    Thanks for the hint. It should be "autohostname". I will double check it and update the doc.

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  5. AnonymousAugust 24, 2012 at 4:41 PM

    autohostname is correctly informed in your doc, but if you want to name the image with the MAC address, that's then "autoname" I think.

    Some other comments:

    I would may be use "-z2p" instead of "-z2" to have faster compression on multi-core computers.

    If you backup a Linux with ext4, you could write in your doc that "-q2" option should be used.

    Thanks again.

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2012 at 12:22 PM

    Dear David,
    Thanks for the post. I'm trying a completely silent run of Clonezilla from a PXE server with tftp and samba. I edited the isolinux.cfg for my samba server information. However my script goes into the ocs-live-general mode. Maybe you have some suggestions?

    1) On my PXE server I have these files under my tftp directories with vmlinux,isolinux.cfg,filesystem.squashfs

    2) While vmlinux loads I see these errors that look odd:
    "modprobe: module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep
    modprobe: module unix not found in modules.dep"

    3) I added this line to the isolinux.cfg to get the filesystem.squashfs file: "fetch=tftp://myserver/filsystem.squashfs"

    4) Before ocs-live-general starts, I see this message displayed very quickly:
    "The jobs in /etc/ocs/ocs-live.d are finished. Start "ocs-live-general" now. Found ocs_prerun* parameter in boot parameters ... The order to run: ocs_prerun ocs_prerun1 ocs_prerun2 ocs_prerun3"

    5) Then I see the "ocs-live-general" menu now with "Start_Clonezilla Start Cloneyilla" or "Enter Shell"

    Is my fetch=.. overriding the unattended run of Clonezilla.

    thanks for any help and/or suggestions!

    ps: If I follow the ocs-live-general instructions, Clonezilla works fine.

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    1. DavidSeptember 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM

      I do not have experience using clonezilla with a PXE Server. If you have not yet, ask the question in the clonezilla Forum, if you are clear with your Problem, they always help you a lot.

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    2. UnknownOctober 28, 2013 at 8:33 AM

      i got exactly this issue, but dont know how to stop that screen to debug :(

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  7. AnonymousOctober 11, 2013 at 5:27 PM

    Hi David, How can I create an unattended disk to disk cloning with advanced -ICDS function?

    Thanks,
    Raj

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  8. Stian AndersenJanuary 29, 2014 at 7:39 PM

    This script is the same as i want. but when I us copy/paste its not correct. So i have tried to correct the script butt when it boots i got the opportunity to restart, shutdown.. after about 15 seconds.

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2014 at 10:32 AM

    I recieved the same thing.. when I copied and pasted it (I did change the hostname/server/username/password but It errors out and does not let me continue.. I get the option restart or shutdown..

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  10. RubensApril 14, 2016 at 3:48 PM

    hello there,

    I know its an old entry on a blog but I'm just wondering which method do you use to encrypt the password for use in the syslinux.cfg syntax for mount a samba share?

    hope someone reads and gives a shout on that

    Thanks!

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  11. DavidApril 14, 2016 at 11:06 PM

    Hello Rubens, sorry but I don't remember doing anything with an encrypted password.

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  12. RubensApril 15, 2016 at 6:55 PM

    Thanks David for your quick reply, I might be wrong but after reading your instructions I'm just looking at your mounting syntax:

    ocs_prerun2="mount -t cifs -o user=clonezilla,domain=lnz.diakoniewerk.at,password=Ae1W4Jsm1lLcfGuvxN9c 10.3.0.16:/Images /home/partimag"

    Im looking a way to encrypt the password in this line but I can't find the way anywhere.

    Is it encrypted in your manual or its just a normal password?

    Thanks again!

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  13. UnknownJuly 2, 2016 at 11:56 AM

    Hi David, The pdf url is out of date, please fix it. thanks

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  14. BrianApril 10, 2018 at 3:02 AM

    Hi David, I too would very much appreciate if you would fix the broken link. Thank you!

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  15. meinsgJuly 15, 2018 at 12:51 AM

    Hello David
    Requesting for the broken link buddy.
    regards
    Mohammed

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  16. UnknownMarch 24, 2019 at 10:08 PM

    Hi David, Can you please fix the broken link?

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