A Live CD for cloning disk drives on any OS

May 13, 2015 03:13 GMT  ·  By

On May 12, Steven Shiau announced the immediate availability for download and testing of a new development version of his famous Clonezilla Live distribution, version 2.4.1-19.

According to the release notes, Clonezilla Live 2.4.1-19 is now based on the latest upstream Debian Sid software repositories as of May 12, 2015, includes various updates packages, as well as new ones and regular bug fixes.

"The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded," says Steven Shiau in the release announcement for Clonezilla Live 2.4.1-19. "This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2015/May/12)."

Clonezilla Live 2.4.1-19 updates the drbl package to version 2.14.9-drbl10, the clonezilla package to version 3.15.3-drbl1, and the util-linux package to version 2.26.2-2. In addition, the tinc package has been added, along with a Hungarian translation.

Download Clonezilla Live 2.4.1-19 right now from Softpedia, where you will find Live CDs for 64-bit and 32-bit (PAE and non-PAE) hardware architectures. Please keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, and it is not suitable for use in production environments.

Being designed by system administrators for system administrators, Clonezilla Live is a straightforward and portable disk cloning/imaging solution that can be used to clone disk drives and backup systems.