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2020-10-23
2020-11-03
  • Elena Vargas

    Elena Vargas - 2020-10-23

    Hi support,

    I'm trying to restore a VM with RHEL 7, it has 2 HDD.
    The problem is with the first HDD (sda), when I tried to restore there is always one or more active volumes and the restore stop, using the answer [n] (picture attached) with no possibility to write [y].
    The second HDD restores ok (sdb).
    I tried to use clonezilla-live-20140915-trusty-amd64 and clonezilla-live-2.6.7-28-amd64 versión without success.

    I recorded a video to show how the proccess was doing.

    https://wetransfer.com/downloads/b24cf94eff090ce36c22e24e6f37e32720201023171634/71f14de31e1da87c01742546da461d2a20201023171650/bf3553

    Can anybody help me?

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2020-10-24

    Are you sure there is no any volume group rhel existing in the same machine?
    Please run the following commands after booting Clonezilla live and enter command line prompt:
    1. pvscan
    2. vgscan
    3. lvscan
    Please post the results of 1-3.
    BTW, you can also give testing Clonezilla live 2.7.0-5 a try.
    //NOTE// Backup important data before you use Clonezilla live. Just in case.

    Steven

     
  • Elena Vargas

    Elena Vargas - 2020-10-24

    Hi Steven,

    Thanks for the quick answer!
    It could be that the image attached and the video recorded were have done after a few attemps to restore.
    So I decided to do a fresh start.
    I'm restoring from a VM into to another VM, so i delete the HDDs, configure new ones and start again.
    I have taken your advise and try the 2.7.0-5 version with the same result :(, restore the sda1 only, "skip" the LVM group and the sdb1 copy complete (I recorded another video with all the steps, https://transfer.pcloud.com/download.html?code=5ZF36pXZuy8f88wlQ44Z9zXwZoW7qn932UDRfOM7BrdQkg7baQH3X&label=Transfer%20-%20files%20sent%20%28to%20sender%29#).
    After that, i ran the commands (image attached).

    Waiting for an answer.. thanks again!

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2020-10-25

    The LVM you have is more complicated than I have here. Since I do not have RHEL8, so I tried CentOS 8 here. It just uses a partition for LVM.
    How did you install RHEL 8? Can you provide files in the image, including:
    sda-pt.parted.compact
    sda-pt.sf
    lvm_*

    Steven

     
  • Elena Vargas

    Elena Vargas - 2020-10-25

    Hi Steven,

    I don't know how the RHEL was installed, it was installed by my client and im just migrating from a cloud provider to another cloud provider, anyway i will try to ask them how was intalled.
    I know that RHEL is RHEL 7 (attached -- rhel_7).

    I attached the screen captures with every file.

    Thanks in advance.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2020-10-26

    Instead of post those png files, please email those plain text files to me (steven at clonezilla org), and you can zip them as a file.
    It would be easer for me to process and create a similar environment here then try to reproduce this issue.
    Thanks.

    Steven

     
  • Elena Vargas

    Elena Vargas - 2020-10-28

    Hi Steven,

    I wrote you an email from my business account (evc_itencore_es), did you received it?

    Regards

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2020-10-28

    No, and I can not find any in my spam folder.
    Or you can post the URL here so that I can download?

    Steven

     
  • Elena Vargas

    Elena Vargas - 2020-10-28

    I attached here.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2020-10-28

    OK, I will find some time to check them. Thanks.

    Steven

     
  • Elena Vargas

    Elena Vargas - 2020-10-28

    Thanks in advance :)

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2020-11-01

    Please give the latest testing Clonezilla live 2.7.0-9 or 20201029-groovy a try:
    https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
    This issue should have been fixed.

    Steven

     
  • Elena Vargas

    Elena Vargas - 2020-11-03

    Hi Steven,

    It's works!! thank you very much :-)

    Best Regards

     
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