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How to backup with CloneZilla to different hardware

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Kristian
2021-07-17
2021-07-21
  • Kristian

    Kristian - 2021-07-17

    Hello,

    Long story short, I have 2 physical servers which I use to run Proxmox. A week ago I saw there is a new stable version of Proxmox VE, so regarding best practices before major upgrade I should have a backup (restorable backup). So I backed up my servers with CloneZilla then created new VM in virtualbox and tried to restore from backup - unfortunately I end up with broken grub which says: disk UUID.... not found, then went to grub rescue mode.

    Let me tell you more about the partitioning:

    I have two disks with 3 partitions:

    1. Used as software RAID with mdadm tools
    2. Used as RAID-Z (stripe) member 1
    3. Used as RAID-Z (stripe) member 2

    So on top of the RAID volume I have LVM, then the root file system and the rest.Two issues I faced by now:

    • For some reasons I even can't see the grub menu/loader.
    • For some reasons when I type ls in grub recovery console, I can't see md devices assembled

    I really don't have a clue how to proceed further.Any advice's are welcomed.

     

    Last edit: Kristian 2021-07-17
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2021-07-21

    Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
    BTW, RAID is complicated, and plus thin provisioning in LVM... Clonezilla does not support that very well..

    Steven

     

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