Was hoping someone can help me. I tried to use Clonezilla live to clone my Synology disk (basic/none raid) drive.
I ended up actually not proceeding with the clone (local disk to disk).
When I plugged the harddrive back to my Synology NAS. The volume on the disk was missing. Basically I think Clonezilla changed something on the source disk. I was under the impression that it will remain intact. Especially that I didn't even proceed with the cloning.
Did clonezilla did something to my drive that made Synology Diskstation not recognize the volume in it anymore?
I would really appreciate if anyone can help me.
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Clonezilla did nothing to your drive. But if you have different drives:
"Normally it's OK for the same type, e.g. same SATA interface. However, if one is SATA, and another one is SAS, it might fail because your restored OS might lack the driver for that." (Steven)
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Thanks for the reply Fuchs..I think it actually did because it won't show the files anymore when I plugged it back in my Synology NAS. Btw, its an EXT4 drive and I was using an older version of Clonezilla.
I remember I did the -k1 option because the target drive was bigger. But again I didn't actually proceed with the cloning.
Its not even readable anymore using an Ubuntu box.
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Before you make a restore you should formatted the partitions of the new disk. The new partitions should be equal or greater than the old ones. Look for the blkdev.list of your image. You can it make with 'gparted live'.
Then can you take your savedisk image of the old drive and start restoredisk in Beginner mode without any changes.
That's all.
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Hello,
Was hoping someone can help me. I tried to use Clonezilla live to clone my Synology disk (basic/none raid) drive.
I ended up actually not proceeding with the clone (local disk to disk).
When I plugged the harddrive back to my Synology NAS. The volume on the disk was missing. Basically I think Clonezilla changed something on the source disk. I was under the impression that it will remain intact. Especially that I didn't even proceed with the cloning.
Did clonezilla did something to my drive that made Synology Diskstation not recognize the volume in it anymore?
I would really appreciate if anyone can help me.
Clonezilla did nothing to your drive. But if you have different drives:
"Normally it's OK for the same type, e.g. same SATA interface. However, if one is SATA, and another one is SAS, it might fail because your restored OS might lack the driver for that." (Steven)
Thanks for the reply Fuchs..I think it actually did because it won't show the files anymore when I plugged it back in my Synology NAS. Btw, its an EXT4 drive and I was using an older version of Clonezilla.
I remember I did the -k1 option because the target drive was bigger. But again I didn't actually proceed with the cloning.
Its not even readable anymore using an Ubuntu box.
Before you make a restore you should formatted the partitions of the new disk. The new partitions should be equal or greater than the old ones. Look for the blkdev.list of your image. You can it make with 'gparted live'.
Then can you take your savedisk image of the old drive and start restoredisk in Beginner mode without any changes.
That's all.