Hi,
I decided to burn an image of my hard drive to a CD. I copied the image to an SSH server through Clonezilla, and now when I choose to restore disk, I don't know how to choose the CD as an option to restore from. Any help with this would be great-thanks.
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Some extra steps you have to do.
Assume you only have one CD drive:
1. Boot clonezilla live, and choose the option Clonezilla Live (To RAM,...)
2. When the booting finishes, it shows you to use clonezilla or enter command shell, you can eject the clonezilla live cd.
3. Insert the image CD you have into CD drive
4. Now choose enter command shell
5. use "sudo su -" to become root, then mount the image dir as /home/partimag, for example,
mount /dev/hdc /home/partimag
This assume your CD is in /dev/hdc (Secondary IDE, master), and the image dir is in the root of that CD. For example, image 2007-06-07-10-img dir is in the root dir of that CD.
6. run "/opt/drbl/sbin/ocs" to start
7. This time choose to skip mounting clonezilla home.
I think that's all. This is just a draft and I did not test it. But it covers all the idea how to do that.
Another choice is to follow the "Choice 2" in http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/
to create such a Clonezilla live CD. Maybe this will be easier, and you only need to have one CD to do that.
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Hello Steven,
Thank you for your reply, I greatly appreciate it.
I have found out how to restore from DVD, with just a different command.
where you have the step number 6, I used the command:
ocs-sr -x
I also unchecked the '-g auto client will reinstall grub in its HD MBR.'
And the rest is history! it worked most wonderfully, and I had a new server up and fully functioning within a matter of minutes! Thank you for responding, it's hard to get people to respond in these forums.
I wish I could have had this available to me on last Monday, I spent 10 hours trying to restore a server onsite. This is the reason why I am here, so that I have a quicker solution. Thank you so much!
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Hi,
I decided to burn an image of my hard drive to a CD. I copied the image to an SSH server through Clonezilla, and now when I choose to restore disk, I don't know how to choose the CD as an option to restore from. Any help with this would be great-thanks.
Some extra steps you have to do.
Assume you only have one CD drive:
1. Boot clonezilla live, and choose the option Clonezilla Live (To RAM,...)
2. When the booting finishes, it shows you to use clonezilla or enter command shell, you can eject the clonezilla live cd.
3. Insert the image CD you have into CD drive
4. Now choose enter command shell
5. use "sudo su -" to become root, then mount the image dir as /home/partimag, for example,
mount /dev/hdc /home/partimag
This assume your CD is in /dev/hdc (Secondary IDE, master), and the image dir is in the root of that CD. For example, image 2007-06-07-10-img dir is in the root dir of that CD.
6. run "/opt/drbl/sbin/ocs" to start
7. This time choose to skip mounting clonezilla home.
I think that's all. This is just a draft and I did not test it. But it covers all the idea how to do that.
Another choice is to follow the "Choice 2" in http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/
to create such a Clonezilla live CD. Maybe this will be easier, and you only need to have one CD to do that.
Hello Steven,
Thank you for your reply, I greatly appreciate it.
I have found out how to restore from DVD, with just a different command.
where you have the step number 6, I used the command:
ocs-sr -x
I also unchecked the '-g auto client will reinstall grub in its HD MBR.'
And the rest is history! it worked most wonderfully, and I had a new server up and fully functioning within a matter of minutes! Thank you for responding, it's hard to get people to respond in these forums.
I wish I could have had this available to me on last Monday, I spent 10 hours trying to restore a server onsite. This is the reason why I am here, so that I have a quicker solution. Thank you so much!
Great! Nice to know you found how to make it.
Enjoy Clonezilla and DRBL!