Restoring Disk Image to Original disk - Problem

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Restoring Disk Image to Original disk - Problem

Forum: Help

Creator: Hermann Stemberger

Created: 2022-05-23

Updated: 2022-05-26

Hermann Stemberger - 2022-05-23

Hi friends,

I'm too stupid, sorry. Could not figure it out on my own, searched and tested...

Situation:
1. Cloning my internal drive ( /dev/nvme0n1 ) to an external drive (see attachment "original_drive.png")

Source: Force MP600 (EGFM11.3): size 2,0 TB (2.000.398.934.016 bytes)
Destination: PXD Patriot Memory (5204) size: 2,0 TB (2.048.408.248.320 bytes)

Cloning with parameters -e1, -e2, -j2, -r, -q1, -v (because I'm having a dual boot system Ubuntu/Windows 10) (see attachment "backup_drive.png")

Testing the clone successfully, I can boot from it.

I want to restore the PXD Patriot clone back to my Force MP600 internal drive.

Clonezilla is reporting that the destination is too small. Although the data i want to restore came exactly from the drive I want to restore to.

When I look at it with gparted, I see that the remaining 48 GB are left free, not assigned to a partition (see attachment "backup_drive.png").

What am I doing wrong? How do I do that restore-process correctly?

I don't want Clonezilla to do any "guess work" or changing partition sizes or filesystem on restoring.

My goal is to have a bootable clone to get up running quickly and to be able to restore this clone back to the original disk.

Thanks for your help and time in advance!

backup_drive.png

original_drive.png
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Steven Shiau - 2022-05-25

You can try to enter expert mode, and choose the option "-k1" and "-icds".
This is because the disk boundary for the source disk is larger than the destination one. Hence with these options can help you to ignore the checking. fore more info, please check:
https://drbl.org/fine-print.php?path=./faq/2_System/119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq#119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq

Steven

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Hermann Stemberger - 2022-05-26

Steven, thanks a lot for your friendly and helping answer.
I'll update my live Clonezilla USB-pendrive and understand what you were explaining to me.
Thanks & have a good day!

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