Software on Aperture Zone

Clonezilla + Samba server

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Okay, we've seen how to create a Clonezilla image, and we've also seen how to restore it. All of that was done locally, so now we're going to do the same thing but with remote storage on the network. We're going to work with a share on a Microsoft server with authentication.

I'll start by creating a user on the AD.

I'm not going to complicate things too much; the user is called clonezilla.

Backup system with Clonezilla

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Download the latest ISO from https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php and prepare a bootable USB key or boot pxe with Iventoy, for example

This is the welcome screen. It's minimalist, but that's all you need.

Select French at random.

We'll choose a French keyboard, as it will be more practical.

Select Latin9.

Start Clonezilla, of course.

We are going to create an image of an entire disk, so we select device-image.

Restore system with Clonezilla

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We have seen how to create a system image with Clonezilla. Now we are going to restore it. In the previous article, we saw how to start up, set up the French keyboard, etc. I won't repeat the screenshots.

We reselect our /dev/sdd1/CLONEZILLA folder as the source.

And we confirm.

Expert mode, of course.

So this time we select restoredisk

Boote PXE with Iventoy

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ventoy, which many people are familiar with, can be installed on a USB drive or external hard drive. You add ISOs and boot from the ISO you want to use. Less well known is the PXE server version.

A nice logo

wget https://github.com/ventoy/PXE/releases/download/v1.0.21/iventoy-1.0.21-linux-free.tar.gz to retrieve the archive

tar -xvf iventoy-1.0.21-linux-free.tar.gz To unzip

sudo ./iventoy.sh start You can now connect to your Iventoy server's GUI