How To Install clonezilla on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install clonezilla on Ubuntu 22.04. clonezilla is bare metal backup and recovery of disk drives

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clonezilla on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is clonezilla

clonezilla is:

Clonezilla is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution with unicasting and multicasting.

Clonezilla, based on drbl, partclone and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. This package provides Clonezilla SE (server edition) which is for massive deployment: it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously.

Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC’s Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting.

There are three methods to install clonezilla on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install clonezilla Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install clonezilla using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install clonezilla

Install clonezilla Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install clonezilla using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install clonezilla

Install clonezilla Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install clonezilla using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clonezilla

How To Uninstall clonezilla on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the clonezilla package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove clonezilla

Uninstall clonezilla And Its Dependencies

To uninstall clonezilla and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clonezilla

Remove clonezilla Configurations and Data

To remove clonezilla configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge clonezilla

Remove clonezilla configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove clonezilla configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clonezilla

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clonezilla package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.