live-clone1

Usage

Overview

live-clone is a GUI program that allows one to clone the running system from a Debian Live USB stick (generated by live-build as an iso-hybrid drive) to other USB sticks or USB drives.

All connected USB sticks and drives detected by live-clone are shown in a table, and one can select the targets of the clone process. The clone process will copy only the read-only part of the system, so personal data are not disclosed.

One can select the size of a VFAT partition to create on the target devices, and a persistence partition is created on each of them. This partition will contain no initial data, and it will be populated during the first boot of the new system, and later continuously updated with the data generated by the user's activity.

One can use this program also to clone from a Debian USB stick to the local main hard disk. This is NOT a standard installation of the Debian system, but the result is very efficient, and has nice features for the beginners.

Options

-h --help

Show summary of options.

--diskinstall

Clone the system to the local hard drive.

--simulation

Simulated clone on a temporary 16 GB volume.