I am attempting to clone a boot disk C: (Disk 0, Sda in Clonezilla) on a Windows 7x64 Dell 8300 system.
The system was once prior to my ownership configured as RAID but then 'refurbished' and de-raided and sold to me by by Dell. The system currently has 2 de-raided 1 TB Western Digital Hard disks and two DVD/CD players. To make the clone I have attached an external 2TB Seagate hard disk to the Esata port via a disk dock, and run a Clonezilla Live 20221103 Kinetic AMD64 CD from my first CD-ROM (CD-ROM 0).
When running the cloning process setup wizard, at the following stages I get the messages indicated below:
After choosing 'Disk to local disk' as the clone type. I get:
Excluding busy disk
Excluding Linux RAID member partition
Disk 3
After choosing the Source disk. I get:
Excluding busy disk
Excluding Linux RAID member partition
Disk 2
At the end of the Wizard on the y/n confirmation screen I get:
Excluding busy partition
Excluding linux RAID member partition
Unmounted partitions sdc1, sdc2, sdc3
I have created a clone, but I am struggling to work out whether these messages mean my clone is incomplete and I need to be able to rely on it because the boot disk is failing.
Running Sudo lshw -class disk gives 2, seemingly related, entries for Disk 3, one of which identifies it as the second, empty, CD ROM. It gives two seemingly unrelated possibilities for Disk 2 - either the target hard drive or 'sdf' which I am unable to identify. Sdc1, sdc2, sdc3 are partitions on the target hard drive.
I have checked for RAID partitions using Sudo lsblk , Blkid, cat /proc/partitions, and find no mdaxxx entries or any other mention of RAID.
I have also put the generated clone online and checked that all partitions seem to be present and of the correct size and they are. Even the unallocated space seems of the right size and in the right locations, though I have not checked that so carefully. It does not even attempt to boot when I ask it to, but I think that is maybe because, since it has been online, it now has the wrong disk signature. I am a little nervous about unplugging the boot disk (and editing the clones signature) until I have to as I am a bit inexperienced with hardware.
I have also tried with a Live 2.7.3-19 AMD64 CD version with and without the dmraid=false command line switch (inserted via the TAB command on the Clonzilla boot screen) with the same results as above.
And I have tried to ensure that no partitions are mounted when I run the live CD wizard by shutting down Windows with SHIFT + Poweroff before booting with the PC.
When cloning the boot disk (Sda) Clonezilla does fail to read a few sectors, but this was expected as disk tests had revealed these. I cannot see why these would cause the messages above, but I thought I should mention them in case they are relevant. (The sectors it fails to read seem more numerous than the disk tests say, but are contiguous and in the same rough locations, so I supect they are more numerous because Clonezilla counts faults differently?)
(NB Messages 1 and 2 rather flash by, which is why I have raised a separate request for help logging the setup Wizard messages. But I think I have got them right now after several Wizard runs).
Any help you can give in interpreting these messages and thus working out if my clone is complete, would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Mouse
Last edit: mouse2 2023-02-01
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RAID is complicated, and Clonezilla does not support it well.
Maybe you have chances to use Partclone directly to process the file system cloning and imaging.
In addition, the setup/configuration for RAID device you have to take care by yourself. Clonezilla does not work well for that.
Sorry.
Steven
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I am attempting to clone a boot disk C: (Disk 0, Sda in Clonezilla) on a Windows 7x64 Dell 8300 system.
The system was once prior to my ownership configured as RAID but then 'refurbished' and de-raided and sold to me by by Dell. The system currently has 2 de-raided 1 TB Western Digital Hard disks and two DVD/CD players. To make the clone I have attached an external 2TB Seagate hard disk to the Esata port via a disk dock, and run a Clonezilla Live 20221103 Kinetic AMD64 CD from my first CD-ROM (CD-ROM 0).
When running the cloning process setup wizard, at the following stages I get the messages indicated below:
I have created a clone, but I am struggling to work out whether these messages mean my clone is incomplete and I need to be able to rely on it because the boot disk is failing.
Running
Sudo lshw -class diskgives 2, seemingly related, entries for Disk 3, one of which identifies it as the second, empty, CD ROM. It gives two seemingly unrelated possibilities for Disk 2 - either the target hard drive or 'sdf' which I am unable to identify. Sdc1, sdc2, sdc3 are partitions on the target hard drive.I have checked for RAID partitions using
Sudo lsblk , Blkid, cat /proc/partitions,and find no mdaxxx entries or any other mention of RAID.I have also put the generated clone online and checked that all partitions seem to be present and of the correct size and they are. Even the unallocated space seems of the right size and in the right locations, though I have not checked that so carefully. It does not even attempt to boot when I ask it to, but I think that is maybe because, since it has been online, it now has the wrong disk signature. I am a little nervous about unplugging the boot disk (and editing the clones signature) until I have to as I am a bit inexperienced with hardware.
I have also tried with a Live 2.7.3-19 AMD64 CD version with and without the
dmraid=falsecommand line switch (inserted via the TAB command on the Clonzilla boot screen) with the same results as above.And I have tried to ensure that no partitions are mounted when I run the live CD wizard by shutting down Windows with SHIFT + Poweroff before booting with the PC.
When cloning the boot disk (Sda) Clonezilla does fail to read a few sectors, but this was expected as disk tests had revealed these. I cannot see why these would cause the messages above, but I thought I should mention them in case they are relevant. (The sectors it fails to read seem more numerous than the disk tests say, but are contiguous and in the same rough locations, so I supect they are more numerous because Clonezilla counts faults differently?)
(NB Messages 1 and 2 rather flash by, which is why I have raised a separate request for help logging the setup Wizard messages. But I think I have got them right now after several Wizard runs).
Any help you can give in interpreting these messages and thus working out if my clone is complete, would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Mouse
Last edit: mouse2 2023-02-01
RAID is complicated, and Clonezilla does not support it well.
Maybe you have chances to use Partclone directly to process the file system cloning and imaging.
In addition, the setup/configuration for RAID device you have to take care by yourself. Clonezilla does not work well for that.
Sorry.
Steven