Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 is now available as the latest stable version of the popular open-source disk imaging and cloning utility, based on packages from the Debian Sid repositories as of July 5, while the included kernel has been updated to Linux 7.0.14.
A key addition is reverse-connection network cloning support in the ocs-onthefly utility. In this mode, the remote system initiates the connection rather than the controlling system, which is useful in environments where firewalls, NAT, or other policies restrict incoming connections. It allows administrators to perform remote cloning without adding inbound firewall rules.
Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 also includes the network-manager-tui package, which offers NetworkManager’s text-based interface for easier configuration of wired and wireless connections from the terminal.
On top of that, this release introduces two new utilities. The first one, cnvt-ocsiso-qcow2, converts a Clonezilla ISO to a QCOW2 image for QEMU-based virtualization, and the second, ocs-check-initrd-module, verifies the required modules in the initial RAM filesystem.
The ocs-onthefly tool has received further improvements to its source and target validation. In particular, it can now better handle systems containing multiple disks that already have partitions.
Additionally, netboot users can now use the supp_boot_param_ocs_live_extra variable to provide additional Clonezilla Live boot parameters to network-booted clients. Plus, the disable_sudo_use_pty function has been revised, and Memtest86+ has been updated to version 8.10.
On the bug-fix side, the developers addressed an issue that could produce an incorrect result when Ctrl+C was pressed while ntfsclone was saving an NTFS partition. Another fix deals with the protected device name “ask_user” in ocs-onthefly.
For additional details, see the announcement. Users can download the new stable image from the project’s SourceForge page.
