Questions[clonezilla](ubuntu)

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit server. I do a clean install, set up all of my custom software, and all is good. I use clonezilla to create a master image, which I later clone. I deal with the machine-id file so that cloned instances on new hardware get a new MAC address and IP address. My issue is that now, on some recent hardware, the ethernet interface name is coming up different than on the original cloned image. So DHCP will not work automatically for example, because the config file in /etc/netplan is specifying the interface name of the old hardware, not the new hardware.

Is there a way to cause netplan to auto-config things on boot? Maybe remove all the yaml files in /etc/netplan? The issue is that the cloned image contains a netplan yaml file with configuration that do not apply to the new hardware. This must be a simple thing to fix, but I've failed to find it in searches online and in this forum. Thanks for any help!

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?

Let me provide as much information as I can about what I'm doing:

I work in a lab development environment managing over 100 server systems. We frequently need to re-image systems with different operating systems and are using CloneZilla to do this quick and easy. CloneZilla is installed to a USB drive and its grub.cfg file configured to launch different OS installers. One of the operating systems (as you can imagine) is Ubuntu (both 14.04 and 16.04). It's configured to boot Ubuntu's network installer and load a preseed/kickstart file from a local web server:

#Generated by Kickstart Configurator
#platform=AMD64 or Intel EM64T

#System language
lang en_US
#Language modules to install
langsupport en_US
#System keyboard
keyboard us
#System mouse
mouse
#System timezone
timezone --utc America/Los_Angeles
#Root password
rootpw --disabled
#Initial user
user lab --fullname "Lab" --iscrypted --password $1$XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
#Reboot after installation
reboot
#Use text mode install
text
#Install OS instead of upgrade
install
#Use Web installation
url --url http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu
preseed mirror/http/proxy string "http://proxy.corp.com:123"
#System bootloader configuration
#bootloader --location=mbr 
#Clear the Master Boot Record
zerombr yes
#Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel 
#System authorization infomation
auth  --useshadow  --enablemd5 
#Network information
network --bootproto=dhcp 
#Firewall configuration
firewall --disabled 
#Do not configure the X Window System
skipx

#preseed functions
preseed base-installer/kernel/image string linux-image-generic
preseed base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-image-generic
preseed clock-setup/ntp-server string pool.ntp.org
preseed partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
preseed partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
preseed partman-auto/method string regular
preseed partman/choose_partition select finish
preseed partman/confirm boolean true
preseed partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
preseed partman/default_filesystem string ext4
preseed partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
preseed partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
preseed partman-md/confirm boolean true
preseed partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
preseed partman-partitioning/choose_label string gpt
preseed partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
preseed partman-efi/non_efi_system boolean true
preseed pkgsel/update-policy select unattended-upgrades
preseed grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
preseed grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true
preseed netcfg/get_hostname string hostname
preseed netcfg/get_domain string domain

# auto method must be lvm
preseed partman-basicfilesystems/choose_label string gpt
preseed partman-basicfilesystems/default_label string gpt
preseed partman-partitioning/default_label string gpt
preseed partman/choose_label string gpt
preseed partman/default_label string gpt
preseed partman-auto/text/boot-root-all :: \
1 1 1 free \
$gptonly{ } \
$primary{ } \
$bios_boot{ } \
method{ biosgrub } \
. \
512 100 512 vfat \
$gptonly{ } \
$primary{ } \
method{ efi } \
format{ } \
$lvmignore{ } \
mountpoint{ /boot/efi } \
.\
128 512 256 ext2 \
$defaultignore{ } \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext2 } \
mountpoint{ /boot } \
. \
1024 4096 -1 ext4 \
method{ format } format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ / } \
.

preseed partman-auto/choose_recipe select boot-root-all
# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided
# that you told it what to do using one of the methods above.
preseed partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
preseed partman/choose_partition select finish
preseed partman-md/confirm boolean true
preseed partman/confirm boolean true
preseed partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true

# This is fairly safe to set, it makes grub install automatically to the MBR
# if no other operating system is detected on the machine.
preseed grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
preseed grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true
preseed grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/sda

#addtional packages
%packages --resolvedeps
openssh-server
libvirt-bin
vim
libpam-systemd
dbus
bash-completion

This is the preseed/kickstart file for Ubuntu 16.04 (with some identifying information stripped out).

The network installer successfully boots and begins the automated install process. However, instead of installing to the local hard drive or SSD, it installs to the USB installation drive and overwrites the CloneZilla image.

Other operating systems are installed fine through CloneZilla using their own local or network installers. It seems to just be Ubuntu having the problem.

Our current workaround is to immediately pull the USB drive out of the system once you can see the network installer boot and begin initializing. The network installer has already been loaded into RAM so it keeps going and only detects the local drive. You have to be quick because the network installer initializes quickly from RAM and if you're too late the USB drive is usually already corrupted.

I searched the partman documentation in hopes of finding a configuration option to tell the installer to ignore the source media device but I guess since it's a network install there is no way to do that?

Does anyone know of a preseed/kickstart configuration option that would solve this issue?

I only used Clonezilla on Live USB and tried to use it inside running Ubuntu 14.04 amd64, so before installed it in usual way

apt-get install clonezilla

Then inserted source USB drive to clone started clonezilla as root choosen disk to image mode, then clonezilla quit to terminal and asked to insert external USB device. It is not required for me to save image to external USB disk so I just pressed Enter, then it thrown this error:

clonezilla 
Clonezilla mode is device-image
ocsroot device is local_dev
Preparing the mount point /home/partimag...
If you want to use USB device as a Clonezilla image repository, please\n * Insert     USB device into this machine *now*\n * Wait for about 5 secs \n * Press Enter key \nso that the OS can detect the USB device and later we can mount it as /home/partimag.
Press "Enter" to continue......
Informing the OS of partition table changes...
Mounting local dev as /home/partimag...
Excluding busy partition or disk...
"Box" is an unknown partition device. Program terminated!.
Press Enter to exit...
Unable to mount resource as /home/partimag.
Are you sure you want to continue?
[y/N] 
Program terminated!

How can i just define options in terminal without using not obvious clonezilla GUI ?
So for example like dd does: dd if=/my/source of=/my/destination conv="someoptions"

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal 64 bits, on a different partition Windows Vista 32 bits (brought this factory and I is useful for programs that bring).

I want to clone both OS with clonezilla live, but in the Clonezilla-live page appears me different download options, and I dont know what of all options are correct and make a right choice for optimal cloning of these operating systems, the options to appears me in the download clonezilla-live page, are these:

estables emisiones (.iso / .zip) - 2.1.1-7

clonezilla-live-20130314-quantal-i386
clonezilla-live-2.1.1-7-amd64.zip
clonezilla-live-2.1.1-7-amd64.iso
clonezilla-live-2.1.1-7-i486.zip
clonezilla-live-2.1.1-7-i486.iso
clonezilla-live-2.1.1-7-i686-pae.zip
clonezilla-live-2.1.1-7-i686-pae.iso

What is the difference between Clonezilla-live based on Debian, and the alternative one based on Ubuntu?.

I want burn Clonezilla-Live on a DVD, so I guess that the zip is dont to me, no?

What is the right to choose to me?

Thank you in advance any easy explanation.