Download the latest ISO from https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php and prepare a bootable USB drive or boot via PXE using Iventoy, for example
Here is the welcome screen—it’s minimalist, but that’s all you need
Let’s select French at random
We’ll choose a French keyboard—it’ll be more convenient
Select Latin9
Start Clonezilla, of course
So we’re going to create an image of an entire disk, so we select device-image
The image will be created on a local disk, so we select local_dev
Detecting available devices; we’ll send the image to /dev/sdd
This isn’t the first image I’m creating; there’s already a folder at /dev/sdd1/CLONEZILLA, so I’ll select it
I like Expert Mode
Select "Save Disk"
The machine I’m imaging is called GEONOSIS, so I’m choosing that name plus the date, but you can enter whatever you like
Here, select the source disk; we’re interested in the system disk
I choose to use PartClone
Here, leave the default settings
I select multicore compression—it’s faster
If the disk storing the image is formatted as FAT32, select 4096 to split the image into multiple parts; otherwise, you can set it to 0
Do not verify the source disk
It’s up to you whether or not to verify the image once it’s finished
It’s up to you whether you want to encrypt the image
It’s up to you what to do once the image is finished
We’ll have to confirm once or twice
Yes, I’m sure!
There you go, you can go grab a coffee or smoke a cigarette (wait, no, that’s bad for your health)
Once the image is finished, here’s the folder’s contents