Clonezilla Live Not Restoring Partitions
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Hello All!
I have encountered an issue when using Clonezilla Live version 20151012-wily (had the same issue with 2.2.1-25), booting from a USB key.
I have two 4TB SAS drives configured in a hardware RAID1 array using an HP Smart Array RAID controller that I want to take an image of. This array has 5 partitions, the 1st is a small vFAT partition, 2-4 are small BTRFS partitions, and the 5th is a very large 3.6TB partition that provides space for a VM disk image.
Whenever I attempt to clone the entire disk using savedisk and save to an external 1TB USB drive, Clonezilla recognizes that all those partitions exist (listed in some terminal output) but doesn't save the 4th and 5th partitions. When using saveparts to attempt a clone, partitions 4 and 5 don't even appear in the graphical menu.
Why is this happening, and is there any way around it?
Is it because the source volume size is way larger than the destination drive for the images? The images should end up being pretty small because most of the space isn't being used on each partition.
Thanks!
Managed to find a solution to this issue, for all interested. The 4th and 5th partitions were "extended" partitions. Converting them to "primary" partitions seemed to solve the problem. I'm not sure why Clonezilla didn't want to clone those two extended partitions, but it might be something worth looking into.
HI Everyone.
So, I just want to say that CloneZilla is definitely an awesome piece of software that does some extraordinary stuff. Got excited because I was able to clone my vm image and get that off the VMWare stack I run to put it to physical disk.
I have a Dell R630 setup for RAID 10. (I know that CloneZilla doesn't support any kind of RAID action yet but I know that it's in the works)
However, I setup my drives into RAID 10, booted CloneZilla, and when it came to access th e RAID, yep, there we go, the drives showed up as 4 drives instead of two.
I figured out how to manually setup the software RAID 10 I wanted using mdadm to get the RAID 10 to show up appropriate in CloneZilla.
Once I got the RAID to acknowledge in CloneZilla I procedure to perform my restore and it looks like everything was restored except grub. So, I have to figure out how to get grub to start up correctly so the server will actually boot correctly.
Does anyone have any pointers on how to get the grub portion fixed? I was going to use the CloneZilla live and do it but I'm not so sure if that's the correct course of action.
Thanks,
Sean
So I just realize I created my last posting in the wrong one. My apologizes. I'll repost in the right place if need be.
Actually Clonezilla does not support RAID device very well. That's why you have to mannually do a lot of things.
What's the grub issue there? Any error messages?
Steven.