Unable to save (other) disk to local LUKS partition
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#370 Unable to save (other) disk to local LUKS partition
Booting Clonezilla Live on my Ubuntu LUKS encrypted laptop, I have an external drive (NVMe on USB 3) which I would like to backup using Clonezilla and store the image locally on the laptop.
After starting Clonezilla, I exit to the console, open the LUKS partition (sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdx5 crypt) & mount the partition (sudo mount /dev/mapper/my_vol_group /home/partimag/) - all is working well - I am able to read the files.
Back to Clonezilla GUI, choose "Work with disks", "Store disk to partition". After choosing the source disk (/dev/sdx from my example), Clonezilla is unable to use /home/partimag - please check enclosed image for full error message.
Before choosing the source drive, Clonezilla clearly states that it will be ignoring any raid or LVM devices - which is probably why it can't find the mount point.
Note that if I choose to use /home/partimag/ as "memory mount", everything works fine (well almost - not enough memory for the backup!). What this confirms, is that Clonezilla live has trouble with /home/partimag/ being mounted on a LUKS partition.
There is a workaround - the command line works fine (ocs-sr ... few not important options ... -p choose savedisk 2021010-24-img sdx)
It would be nice to have the GUI fixed if you ever have a chance.
Defect easy to reproduce using the stable and testing version (as of Oct 25, 2021)
You guys are doing a fantastic job, Clonezilla is an outstanding product, thank you, thank you, thank you for your time and commitment to the open source community
Ioan
Thanks for reporting this issue. We will try to reproduce this issue. If it can be reproduced, then we try to fix it.
Please be patient.
Steven
Hello Steven
Thank you for letting me know. There is no rush and thanks again for your
time and commitment to the project - Clonezilla is fantastic!
Ioan
Last edit: Steven Shiau 2021-12-23
OK, I suggest you do like this:
1. Boot Clonezilla live
2. When you see this TUI asking the image repository:
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/images/ocs-07-1-img-repo.png
Please choose "enter_shell".
3. Then manually prepare the image repository, like:
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdx5 crypt
mount /dev/mapper/crypt /home/partimag/
exit
4. Once you run exit, it will back to the main menu. Then you should be able to save or restore the image.
Please give it a try.
Steven
well this thread is an year old but i had the same issue.
recently i changed my external HDD to Luks ext4 and faced this issue
followed the steps u said to manually open and mount and it worked .
the only downside is that i could not choose a particular folder and the saved backup would go in the root of the external HDD.
anyway atleast it works so i am gratefull .
hope to see option for opening luks at start also same like we can if the to-be backed up part /disk is luks.
Thank you
keep up the good work :)
UPDATE: for mounting the subfolder we can mount the opened luks part somewhere else and then bind mount the subfolder to /home/partimag/
Last edit: bx2nero 2022-11-12
Thank you for your amazing program.
I am running to a problem of not being able to restore a partition image (made with Clonezilla and saved to an external HDD, no luks encryption) to a newly luks-encrypted partition.
What has been done so far:
0) At the very step of Clonezilla live I enter CL
1) I do luksOpen for the newly encrypted partition: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p7 crypt
2) I make the logical volume active: vgchange -ay
From here I have tried CLI for restoration to no avail (I am a newbie).
I also tried going back to GUI, but every time in both cases Clonezilla fails to see the decrypted partition and the only choice is to proceed with the luks-encrypted partition in which I case it just gets ovewritten. So I get my data back, but not encrypted which was my intention.
How can I make Clonezilla to restore the partition image to the decrypted part, not overwrite it?
Thanks in advance and thanks for the great work you have been doing.
" restore the partition image to the decrypted part, not overwrite it? " -> What did you mean by this? Please describe more. Thanks.