I set up Clonezilla, made a backup to my USB "passport" drive, but now I'm a bit confused.
1) There's an option to create a recovery CD or USB stick. I did so, creating the zip file. But there's also an option to restore image to local disk from the main menu of my Clonezilla disk. So why would I need a recovery disk if the option is already there on my main Clonezilla DVD?
2) Secondly, I tried to download Tuxboot to create the USB recovery from my recovery file, but the repository didn't work (http://tuxboot.org/download/). Maybe it's because I'm on a Beta of Ubuntu (14.04)? Last, I can't figure out how to get to my /home/partimag directory with cd. I tried cd /home/partimag but it wasn't there. The Clonezilla terminal stated that's where I could find my recovery image on the local drive (my backup is safely on my Passport drive). I'm still new to terminal commands in Linux.
I was told "Partimg" is located under a directory whose name reflects the date shown on the computer when the image was created. I cannot find the directory or the file when I search my ubuntu system (13.10).
So...I feel like I'm only a single step away from being able to have full recovery in case of hardware failure. So close yet so far...
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As for your questions,
1) Recovery ISO or CD is for you to create a one-key restoration CD or flash drive. It presets most of the options, like keyboard, language, image name, destination disk... While for the other one you need to go step by step.
2) Once you have created the recovery zip file, just
a. Uncompress it to your USB flash drive,
b. mount it by command like:
sudo mount /dev/sdg1 /media/disk
(Replace /dev/sdg1 as your destination USB flash drive)
c. sudo bash /media/disk/util/linux/makeboot.sh /dev/sdg1
(Replace /dev/sdg1 as your destination USB flash drive)
Then your USB flash drive is bootable.
The above steps are similar to: http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php#linux-method-b
//NOTE// Backup important data before you use Clonezilla. Just in case.
Steven.
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I set up Clonezilla, made a backup to my USB "passport" drive, but now I'm a bit confused.
1) There's an option to create a recovery CD or USB stick. I did so, creating the zip file. But there's also an option to restore image to local disk from the main menu of my Clonezilla disk. So why would I need a recovery disk if the option is already there on my main Clonezilla DVD?
2) Secondly, I tried to download Tuxboot to create the USB recovery from my recovery file, but the repository didn't work (http://tuxboot.org/download/). Maybe it's because I'm on a Beta of Ubuntu (14.04)? Last, I can't figure out how to get to my /home/partimag directory with cd. I tried cd /home/partimag but it wasn't there. The Clonezilla terminal stated that's where I could find my recovery image on the local drive (my backup is safely on my Passport drive). I'm still new to terminal commands in Linux.
I was told "Partimg" is located under a directory whose name reflects the date shown on the computer when the image was created. I cannot find the directory or the file when I search my ubuntu system (13.10).
So...I feel like I'm only a single step away from being able to have full recovery in case of hardware failure. So close yet so far...
As for your questions,
1) Recovery ISO or CD is for you to create a one-key restoration CD or flash drive. It presets most of the options, like keyboard, language, image name, destination disk... While for the other one you need to go step by step.
2) Once you have created the recovery zip file, just
a. Uncompress it to your USB flash drive,
b. mount it by command like:
sudo mount /dev/sdg1 /media/disk
(Replace /dev/sdg1 as your destination USB flash drive)
c. sudo bash /media/disk/util/linux/makeboot.sh /dev/sdg1
(Replace /dev/sdg1 as your destination USB flash drive)
Then your USB flash drive is bootable.
The above steps are similar to:
http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php#linux-method-b
//NOTE// Backup important data before you use Clonezilla. Just in case.
Steven.