I love Clonezilla. I use it to refresh laptops that are circulated by my public library. Clonezilla made it easy for me to automate so the checkin staff wouldn't need much training.
I am trying to encrypt my image and I am using ocs-sr from clonezilla-3.30.24 and it is ignoring my -pe or -pfe flags. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but it always prompts me for a password. I've tried it with -pe and -pfe. I've tried double and single quotes around the password and also with no quotes. It still wants me to enter the password.
I can work around this when I restore with echo "testpass" | sudo /usr/sbin/ocs-sr... but that's probably not the right way to fix it. I have it installed on Xubuntu 17.10. I originally installed the supplied version for Ubuntu, but ended up installing it from source to make sure I had the newest version.
Can you suggest anyting I might do to troubleshoot?
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I'm not using the Live or the Server version. I've downloaded the package from http://clonezilla.org/downloads/src/sourcecodes.php (clonezilla-3.30.24.tar.xz) and installed it on a persistant bootable Xubuntu stick. I did it this way so that non-techs could restore an image from a shortcut within the gui.
Each laptop has an ext2 partition where the Windows install for that machine is backed up. We restore this image after a patron returns the laptop so that Windows doesn't want to activate again.
I'm open to trying something with Clonezilla Live if you think that would be better. I just thought this would be easier. Everything is working perfectly, except for passing the password to the script. Before I learned that encryption was an option, I was just using the Clonezilla package provided by Ubuntu.
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Did you also update DRBL on your system? Please make sure you have the latest packages of DRBL and Clonezilla, then this command should work:
sudo /usr/sbin/ocs-sr -q2 -j2 -z1p -i 2000 -p true -enc -pe "testpass" saveparts circulating sda1
Or you can try this command first in Clonezilla live. I just did a test here and it works. The password is used correctly.
Steven
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I love Clonezilla. I use it to refresh laptops that are circulated by my public library. Clonezilla made it easy for me to automate so the checkin staff wouldn't need much training.
I am trying to encrypt my image and I am using ocs-sr from clonezilla-3.30.24 and it is ignoring my -pe or -pfe flags. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but it always prompts me for a password. I've tried it with -pe and -pfe. I've tried double and single quotes around the password and also with no quotes. It still wants me to enter the password.
I can work around this when I restore with
echo "testpass" | sudo /usr/sbin/ocs-sr...but that's probably not the right way to fix it. I have it installed on Xubuntu 17.10. I originally installed the supplied version for Ubuntu, but ended up installing it from source to make sure I had the newest version.Can you suggest anyting I might do to troubleshoot?
So which version of Clonezilla live did you use? Or you use it in the server edition?
Thanks.
Steven
Hi, Steven. Thanks for the reply.
I'm not using the Live or the Server version. I've downloaded the package from http://clonezilla.org/downloads/src/sourcecodes.php (clonezilla-3.30.24.tar.xz) and installed it on a persistant bootable Xubuntu stick. I did it this way so that non-techs could restore an image from a shortcut within the gui.
Each laptop has an ext2 partition where the Windows install for that machine is backed up. We restore this image after a patron returns the laptop so that Windows doesn't want to activate again.
I'm open to trying something with Clonezilla Live if you think that would be better. I just thought this would be easier. Everything is working perfectly, except for passing the password to the script. Before I learned that encryption was an option, I was just using the Clonezilla package provided by Ubuntu.
Did you also update DRBL on your system? Please make sure you have the latest packages of DRBL and Clonezilla, then this command should work:
sudo /usr/sbin/ocs-sr -q2 -j2 -z1p -i 2000 -p true -enc -pe "testpass" saveparts circulating sda1
Or you can try this command first in Clonezilla live. I just did a test here and it works. The password is used correctly.
Steven