I have been using DRBL/CLonezilla Server for about a year at a nonprofit computer recycling program and we love it! We now need to do limited restore from disk off site and I thought I would try the Live DVD backup option to save an image and automate the restore. I have experimented with making an iso containing the image I need to restore. I have been able to get the iso to work perfectly in a VirtualBox virtual machine, but when I burn the iso to a DVD, it will not boot at all. I have tried burning from Nautilus, brasero and gmomebaker, but none of the disks boot. I am stumped on this one. What am I missing?
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Rick,
If the iso file boots successfully on virtualbox, maybe you can try to choose "failsafe" mode in the boot menu.
Another approach you can try is to use experimental Clonezilla live (comes with newer kernel so maybe it supports new hardware better) to create such a recovery ISO or zip. You can make it by using the Clonezilla live menu when there is Clonezilla image in dir /home/partimag, which means you have to prepare the clonezilla image first, and put it or mount it on /home/partimag.
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Thanks for both suggestions! Burning the disk from the command line worked fine, but it still would not boot. I also tried the ubuntu-intrepid build, but it would not boot either. I think I will not try anymore until I can use rewritable discs. I am already on my way to a nice collection of coasters!
I decided to give the usb route a whirl and it worked great! The only downside that I can see is that the usb flash drive is a little slower to boot. The plus is that the flash drive will come in handy for those machines that do not have DVD drives. I love it! Rick
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The weird thing is, if the iso file can be booted successfully on virtual machine, why the burned CD won't boot ? Unless the problem is on the CD drive or CD itself.
Yes, USB flash drive is another solution, and sometimes it's even better compared with CD/DVD.
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I agree. It is weird. I tried a couple of different burners and different machines. For some reason the disc is not even detected. I will pursue the usb flash for now and use the DVDs for backup copies.
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I have been using DRBL/CLonezilla Server for about a year at a nonprofit computer recycling program and we love it! We now need to do limited restore from disk off site and I thought I would try the Live DVD backup option to save an image and automate the restore. I have experimented with making an iso containing the image I need to restore. I have been able to get the iso to work perfectly in a VirtualBox virtual machine, but when I burn the iso to a DVD, it will not boot at all. I have tried burning from Nautilus, brasero and gmomebaker, but none of the disks boot. I am stumped on this one. What am I missing?
(season's greatings, btw :)
I'm using Clonezilla Live and this feature is the one I use most (dunno about Clonezilla server though).
After having created the iso (current stable version can do it by menu), just enter the command-line and type:
growisofs -Z /dev/hdx=<your image iso name>
which should do the trick,
where:
/dev/hdx is the actual id for your DVD burner
HTH,
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Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux
Rick,
If the iso file boots successfully on virtualbox, maybe you can try to choose "failsafe" mode in the boot menu.
Another approach you can try is to use experimental Clonezilla live (comes with newer kernel so maybe it supports new hardware better) to create such a recovery ISO or zip. You can make it by using the Clonezilla live menu when there is Clonezilla image in dir /home/partimag, which means you have to prepare the clonezilla image first, and put it or mount it on /home/partimag.
Thanks for both suggestions! Burning the disk from the command line worked fine, but it still would not boot. I also tried the ubuntu-intrepid build, but it would not boot either. I think I will not try anymore until I can use rewritable discs. I am already on my way to a nice collection of coasters!
I decided to give the usb route a whirl and it worked great! The only downside that I can see is that the usb flash drive is a little slower to boot. The plus is that the flash drive will come in handy for those machines that do not have DVD drives. I love it! Rick
The weird thing is, if the iso file can be booted successfully on virtual machine, why the burned CD won't boot ? Unless the problem is on the CD drive or CD itself.
Yes, USB flash drive is another solution, and sometimes it's even better compared with CD/DVD.
I agree. It is weird. I tried a couple of different burners and different machines. For some reason the disc is not even detected. I will pursue the usb flash for now and use the DVDs for backup copies.
Jean-François,
I don't understand.
This command "growisofs -Z /dev/hdx=<your image iso name>" does not create a bootable CD.
I'm right?
Thank you
Jack66 Metz
Jack66,
provided you've created an ISO file from one of your images (using the Recovery option in Clonezilla Live), the commands you'd enter are:
(we suppose here that the device holding the image is already mounted to /home/partimag)
su -
cd /home/partimag
growisofs -Z /dev/hdx=<your image iso name>
which should create a bootable disk.
What's wrong with your tests?