#284 3.21.13-1: No input device!

[Danny ter Haar]

I am trying to run clonezilla on a machine running openmediavault which has ZFS installed/working.
I want to make a copy of a NVR drive (ip camera system) which has no partition info.

Here is all the information I gathered

hardware:
    description: Computer
    product: SSG-6027R-E1R12L-NI024 (To be filled by O.E.M.)
    vendor: Supermicro

# free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           125G         67G         55G         96M        2.6G         57G
Swap:            0B          0B          0B


os: debian stretch 64 bit

# dpkg -l clonezilla
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                      Version           Architecture      Description
+++-=========================-=================-=================-=======================================================
ii  clonezilla                3.21.13-1         all               bare metal backup and recovery of disk drives


# parted -s /dev/sdh print
Error: /dev/sdh: unrecognised disk label
Model: ATA WDC WD20PURX-64P (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdh: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:


# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   1        0      65536 ram0
   1        1      65536 ram1
   1        2      65536 ram2
   1        3      65536 ram3
   1        4      65536 ram4
   1        5      65536 ram5
   1        6      65536 ram6
   1        7      65536 ram7
   1        8      65536 ram8
   1        9      65536 ram9
   1       10      65536 ram10
   1       11      65536 ram11
   1       12      65536 ram12
   1       13      65536 ram13
   1       14      65536 ram14
   1       15      65536 ram15
   8       16 4883737816 sdb
   8       17 4883728384 sdb1
   8       25       8192 sdb9
   8       32 4883737816 sdc
   8       33 4883728384 sdc1
   8       41       8192 sdc9
   8       48 4883737816 sdd
   8       49 4883728384 sdd1
   8       57       8192 sdd9
   8       64 4883737816 sde
   8       65 4883728384 sde1
   8       73       8192 sde9
   8       80 4883737816 sdf
   8       81 4883728384 sdf1
   8       89       8192 sdf9
   8       96 4883737816 sdg
   8       97 4883728384 sdg1
   8      105       8192 sdg9
   8        0  488386584 sda
   8        1  468596736 sda1
   8        5   19786752 sda5
   8      112 1953514584 sdh


# /usr/sbin/ocs-sr -q2 -c -j2 -z1p -i 4096 -scs -p choose savedisk 2017-10-29-13-img sdh
Setting the TERM as screen
Starting /usr/sbin/ocs-sr at 2017-10-29 07:32:02 PDT...
*****************************************************.
Clonezilla image dir: /home/partimag
*****************************************************.
Failed to stop mkswapfile.service: Unit mkswapfile.service not loaded.
Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager
Finished Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager
Selected device [sdh] found!
The selected devices: sdh
*****************************************************.
setterm: terminal screen does not support --blank
Activating the partition info in /proc... done!
Selected device [sdh] found!
The selected devices: sdh
Searching for data partition(s)...
Excluding busy partition or disk...
Unmounted partitions (including extended or swap):
Collecting info. done!
Searching for swap partition(s)...
Excluding busy partition or disk...
Unmounted partitions (including extended or swap):
Collecting info. done!
setterm: terminal screen does not support --blank
Activating the partition info in /proc... done!
No input device!

[Steven Shiau]

So there is no any partition in your disk /dev/sdh? If so, Clonezilla does not know which partitions to save. Yes, this is still the limitation, you must have partition(s) in a disk so that Clonezilla can save that for you. Or you can manually use the program partclone.* to save that.

Steven