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Ansible vs Clonezilla
Ansible
13 positive (87%) · 2 mixed (13%) · 0 negative (0%)
Trust + time weighted: +88%
Top excerpts
I'm running an Ubuntu container of Ansible and I'm about to play around with automation
Ansible only requiring SSH access makes it a nice fit to the problem.
Personally, I would choose Ansible, but there is a whole family of similar tools to choose from: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, cfengine, etc.
+1 for ansible. It's built just for problems like this.
I agree with others, an ansible inventory and the ansible-console repl would have done this work across all nodes in several minutes.
Clonezilla
9 positive (90%) · 1 mixed (10%) · 0 negative (0%)
Trust + time weighted: +89%
AI summary — not a quote
Clonezilla is a highly regarded, free tool for disk cloning and imaging, frequently recommended for hardware upgrades and backups. It is praised for its reliability and broad hardware compatibility, though it is noted for having a steeper learning curve than consumer-focused alternatives due to its terminal-based interface.
Pros
- Free to use
- Creates exact 'picture perfect' copies
- Supports direct disk-to-disk cloning
- Compatible with virtually any hardware
Cons
- Interface can be overwhelming for beginners
- Requires booting from a USB drive
Top excerpts
Clonezilla. Create a bootable flash drive containing it. Do a direct disk to disk clone.
I have used Clonezilla for this in the past, works fine, supports any hardware.
Clonezilla is also very good, but can be overwhelming if you aren't use to booting from USB and working in a terminal.
Clonezilla or Macrium Reflect can clone all the data from your old drive to the new one.
Whenever I switch PCs or need to reinstall I usually uninstall my games and apps that take up allot of storage, use an imaging software like clonezilla to take a snapshot then install that image to a VM.