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Back up your hard drive for free Clonezilla is a collection of open source programs that allow you to easily backup and restore all the information on your hard drive. The program simply takes a snapshot of what your hard drive looks like and save it to a file. This program is handy because it not dependent upon the operating system but has tools that can make it more efficient if it knows about the format of the partitions you are backing up. It is able to read and write to NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, ext2, ext3 and more. If you want it can break the files up into smaller manageable sizes which can then be transfered to a CD or DVD. With Clonezilla you boot from a disc based on the Debian Live CD or a USB drive. Then you can save or restore your images to an extra disk drive or partition. There are also some networking options available. If you are a network administrator you can even set up an image server. Once you boot the system you will be walked through the screens to backup your system.

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Contributed by AW on February 4, 2008, at 3:37 PM UTC.

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Even when you have partial back-ups of individual files and directories, it is so frustrating to lose your entire disk and have to spend hours or even days rebuilding it. This is especially true as partial backups don't usually include installed programs so you need to track down the install disks and build up from scratch.

Thanks for pointing out this software that should help avoid the pain.

Bruce Clement Oct 22, 2008 14:44

I use Genie backup professional, which makes full and incremental backups of files and operating system.

It's saved my bacon many a time. However I'm now running an encapsulated protected 'virtual' version of windows XP professional. This allows me to run any potentially harmful and untested software without effecting the host system.

Puniksem Oct 22, 2008 17:50

Very useful Intel. I'll trying it.

Isyaias Sawing Oct 24, 2008 00:55

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