I'm not sure I understand backups with Clonezilla. Will Clonezilla erase the destination (backup) disk as it creates a backup or will all the previously saved files be preserved on the backup disk?
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Yes.
Clonezilla can operate in various modes. One of the modes is physical disk to image, which will write an image to a filesystem, without destroying anything present in the filesystem.
Other modes includes device to device, which will destroy the destinations content.