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Clonezilla , how to have smaller files ? (self.linux)

submitted 10 months ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone,

I’m really happy to be successfully using Clonezilla which is a great tool (but not easy without a tutorial) to create backups of my Fedora and Lubuntu installations on my 3 computers.

However I have a problem while cloning my 2012 MacBook Pro.

Clonezilla create individual files which are bigger than the 50 gb limit my kDrive (swiss equivalent to Google drive) allows me to have.

With my Surface Go 1 the individual files are way smaller although the overall size of the backup is approximately the same.

How can I change that so that I can put my backups on the cloud?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have less data?

Cut the files in half and splice them back together if you need them?

[–] Dariusmiles2123 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah but I have approximately the same amount of data on both of my computers.

It’s just that one of them created maybe 10 files when the other created one really large file during the Clonezilla process.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

According to the Clonezilla docs you can split the archive into arbitrarily sized chunks

[–] Dariusmiles2123 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks I’ll have a look into that.

What’s strange is that I’ve always used the beginners mode, but Clonezilla didn’t behave the same way with the files on the two computers.

It’s a really nice program but also a bit scary when you aren’t used to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the Mac uses full disk encryption? Clonezilla will clone everything incl. the empty areas as the entire drive contains data indistinguishable from random bits in that case. Encrypted data also does not compress.

[–] Dariusmiles2123 1 points 10 months ago

I don’t think so as they both have a basic Fedora 38 installation.