How to take backup of FreeBSD 9.3 OS with BSD Partition Scheme

[Manoj Reddy]

Hi,

Clonezilla throws the error "Invalid/Illegal Partition" while taking backup
of FreeBSD 9.3 with BSD Partition scheme.
Is there any other way to take backup successfully without any errors??
Please help me in resolving this issue.
Thanks in Advance.....

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Best Regards,
K Manoj Kumar Reddy,

[Steven Shiau]

Could you please show your layout of partitions/slices?
Please boot Clonezilla live, enter command line, then run:

1. sudo -i
2. blkid
3. parted -s /dev/sda print
4. cat /proc/partitions

Please post the results of (2)-(4).
Thanks.

Steven.

[Manoj Reddy]

Hi Steven,

Here is the output for above commands :

blkid

/dev/loop0: TYPE"squashfs"
/dev/sda4: TYPE="ufs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="UUI" UUID="12EA-2C54" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="SVTL-IMAGE" UUID="14EB-176B" TYPE=vfat"

parted -s /dev/sda print

Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sda

cat /proc/partitions

major minor #blocks name

7 0 128156 loop0
8 0 312571224 sda
8 4 25000 sda4
11 0 1048575 sr0
8 16 244198584 sdb
8 17 1060258 sdb1
8 18 233368222 sdb2

Thanks,
Manoj

[Steven Shiau]

It looks like Clonezilla live does not detect your partitions/slices on your FreeBSD 9.3.
How did you install that? And which file system did you use for them?
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
BTW, the blkid output on my testing FreeBSD 9.3 system is:
/dev/sda1: PARTUUID="6df4ac02-99dc-11e4-bb2d-000c29bc3890"
/dev/sda2: UUID="54b2f11c3fd8ece6" TYPE="ufs" PARTUUID="6df6a021-99dc-11e4-bb2d-000c29bc3890"
/dev/sda3: PARTUUID="6df8e822-99dc-11e4-bb2d-000c29bc3890"

Steven.