[3][4][5] Clonezilla Server Edition uses multicast technologies to deploy a single image file to a group of computers on a local area network.

[5] Clonezilla was designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan.

[4] It is intended to support a bare-metal deployment of an operating system by booting from a preinstalled live environment.

[4] Clonezilla Live can image a single computer's storage media or a single partition on the media to an image file stored on a SSH server, Samba network share, locally-attached hard disk drive or to a network filesystem file-share.

[4][5] Alternatively, Clonezilla Live can clone the data on one storage medium to another without the need to create an image file first.

Unlike Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office and Norton Ghost, Clonezilla lacks an agent that can be installed into the operating system.

[15][3][10] Clonezilla can sometimes be faster than Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office and Norton Ghost for both imaging and restoration but can be difficult to configure.

Clonezilla, however, is not a backup or disaster recovery solution because it does not offer incremental and differential snapshots, scheduling, or interruption-free operation.