I'm pretty sure clonezilla is just doing dd under the covers anyway?
I've used dd since the mid 2000's when only paid products like Acronis existed (or at least Acronis was the only disk copying program I knew about at the time). I guess old habits die hard and dd just works.
Clonezilla is partclone, the main benefit is the compression so you don't waste space on emptyness
What advantage does Clonezilla have over something like rsync?
Does rsync use zlib compression, does it restore partition tables and bootloaders? I personally like rsync for syncing between servers but i recently stumbled upon clonezilla when I needed an install iso for my thin client project. It has a feature where it can turn a backup into a bootable iso so that was perfect. It can alsp restore vhd files to real hardware which was also something I needed. For most tasks I prefer rescuezilla since its a GUI for it. But the ability to spawn pxe servers and make isos sets the text based one apart.
