System deployment using Clonezilla

Clonezilla is free software for system deployment or recovery. It is similar to Symantec Ghost or Acronis True Image. The file systems supported by Clonezilla are:

ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux
FAT, NTFS of MS Windows
HFS+ of Mac OS
UFS2 of BSD
VMFS3 and VMFS5 of VMware ESX
Minix of Minix

Therefore you can image or clone GNU/Linux, MS windows, Intel-based Mac OS, FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD, VMware ESX and Minix. LVM2 and hardware RAID device is supported, too. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can restore many computers simultaneously. Clonezilla is not only for a newbie system administrator, but also for a veteran.

For the step by step doc about using Clonezilla live, you can check this doc.

This talk will cover some of the following topics:

What has changed in Clonezilla since last year?
How to create a super-easy, customized mode for your users?

Example 1: recovery CD or USB flash drive

Unattended? Remember to enter expert mode, select "-batch" then disselect "-c".

Example 2: recovery with a file server (Samba server, ssh server, or NFS server)
Files: demo-2.txt, isolinux-demo-2.cfg

Unattended? Remember to replace "-c" with "-batch" in the parameter "ocs_live_run", so it's like:
ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -batch -r -j2 -p reboot restoredisk MY-IMAGE sda"

How can Clonezilla help an administrator to make his life easier? Including:

Things you should know when doing P2V migration
- Convert Clonezilla image to virtual disk (qcow2, vmdk).
Massively deployment with Clonezilla SE