How to clone and restore harddisk using Clonezilla

Open the terminal and run the following command to check the available disk

[root@localhost Desktop]# fdisk -l

Now mount the harddisk /dev/sda1 to the local harddisk.

[root@localhost Desktop]# mount /dev/sda1 /second
[root@localhost Desktop]# df-h
Filesystem    Size    Used    Avail    Use%   Mounted on
/dev/sdb2     116G     3.4G    107G     4%       /
tmp fs        3.8G     224K    3.8G     1%       /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1     477G     42M     410M     10%      /boot
/dev/sdc1     7.4G     242M    7.2G     4%       /media/20160529
/dev/sda1     459G     2.9G    433G     1%       /second-HDD

Go to the hard disk and list the hard disk.

[root@localhost Desktop]# cd /second-HDD/
[root@localhost Desktop]# ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 1395 jun 28 19:16 backup-img
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 1395 jun 28 01:13 backup-test

View the details in the image directory.

[root@localhost second-HDD]# cd backup-img/
[root@localhost backup-img]# ls -l

Remove all the files in the local disk using -rf option.

[root@localhost~]# rm -rf *
[root@localhost~]#ls -l
total 0

Reboot the system

[root@localhost~]# reboot

To restore the cloned image

In the boot screen, select the USB drive to run Clonezilla.

Now start clonezilla and choose the device image option.

Select the local drive

Choose the hard disk where the cloned image is stored.

Select the directory

Choose the Beginner mode and click Enter

Then choose restore disk option, to restore the image to the local disk.

Now choose the backup image to be restored in your local machine.

Select the hard disk to be restored and click enter to proceed further.

Press yes for the confirmation to proceed further.

It starts restoring the image to the local disk.

Finally reboot the system.

Open the terminal and run the following command to verify the stored image.

[root@localhost Desktop]# cd
[root@localhost ~]# ls -l
total 184
-rw-------. 1  root root 1395 jun 28 00:39  anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxr-xr-x. 2  root root 1395 jun 28 00:39  Desktop
drwxr-xr-x. 2  root root 1395 jun 28 00:39  Documents
drwxr-xr-x. 2  root root 1395 jun 28 00:39  Downloads
.
.
.
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 1395 jun 28 00:39  videos

Thus we have restored the image successfully.