clonezilla 1.2.4 fails - waiting...
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I am trying to do a simple (?) clone of a Debian Linux system to a new box.
Both sides start-up fine, and then the source machine sits waiting for the remote, and the remote starts the GUI showing progress, but nothing happens.
We did a small trial with two other machines and it worked fine (a Windows source), but when we switch to the needed Linux source, it just hangs like this - no errors or messages.. How to tell what to do?
On the source and destination machine, press ctrl-alt-F2 to enter another console, then run:
ps -ef |grep nc
to see if any process is run.
BTW, did you try to save the source disk as an image? Does it work?
Steven.
Interestingly enough,
another try and the source reported buffer read errors on the source disk..
So we moved that disk to another machine and tried a disk-disk clone with both CloneZIlla & Ghost, both reported source disk errors.
But the disk boots fine in the original machine, Linux runs fine from it, and fsck reports that all is fine. ??
I have a Mondo/Mindi backup, perhaps I can just use that to do a restoral on the new machine, and that will be a clone?
I guess what the disk boots fine means during the booting process, the files on the bad sectors are not read or written…
Since Clonezilla and Ghost reports these errors, it's recommended you'd better to back up important files first.
Yes, Mondo rescue is another choice for you to do so.
Steven.
Yes, I agree that is the problem. I could run some more thorough disk physical level checker, but the clone via restoral using Mindi worked fine.
The only anomaly is that the Networking setup which was etho before would only work with eth1 on the new system, not sure why, or if it is an artifact of the transfer.
Nonetheless, seems like success. Thanks.