How to do system cloning?

B&E antec

Hi Folks,

Let me first say: I really like the UP Board. Damn small but full Windows Support. Great.

I have to build a certain amount of systems with this boards. We used to use Acronis TrueImage from USB to clone System Images from one Mainboard to the next. But I failed to install acronis boot Image on a USB drive which is bootable for the UP board. Trying with rufus and GPT FAT32 Settings results in an error like following (translated from me):

"This Image is not bootable or uses a not supported boot type / compression"

So how do you do System cloning?

B&E antec

BIOS is flashed with 32Bit Version.
System is Win10 IoT 32Bit.

Rik de la Rambelje

If you do not mind using a different tool I have had good results using CloneZilla (http://clonezilla.org/) for both Windows and Linux based images. I have only done so using the 64 bit bios however.

Stefan Smietanowski

There is also another thread set up to show how to clone using both a manual method (my reply) and a clonezilla guide (someone else's). Look at that thread.

B&E antec

Hi stesmi,
would have been nice, if you refered to that thread.
Guess, you mean this one:
https://up-community.org/forum/general-discussion-up/1197-cloning-the-image-of-an-up-board#3848

I will try the clonezilla method and Report the result.

(I wonder a Little bit, why this thread, which was created later, has more responses than me here)

Stefan Smietanowski

Hi, yes.

Sorry, I was very short on time when I wrote that and thought it'd be more important for you to know there's another thread to look at instead of me not writing anything until later.

And regarding your thoughts - I can only speak for myself. I didn't see this thread until way later than the other one, so I responded in it.

If I had seen yours I would have responded here. Sorry.

// Stefan

B&E antec

Thank you for CloneZilla Guide. It works

However we updated Acronis TrueImage to 2017 Version also it works perfectly.

Andy Nicholson

We use a couple of things, for small scale stuff/individual machines it's Paragon Hard Disk Manager. For other larger scale stuff it's usually Altiris because we have a site license. Paragon is good though.