I have a slightly unique config. I have a macbook pro but primarily boot ubuntu on it. As such, my partitions are hfs+ for booting into macosx, then an ext4 /boot, ext4 /home, and ext4 / and linux swap. I've used clonezilla live to clone this so that if i have an hdd failure i could restore the entire drive and be up and running quick. for daily changes i use back in time on my linux /home.
Recently i had my hdd fail and the restored drive wouldn't boot in my mac. just would come up to a folder with a ? on it. I took the opportunity to rebuild the machine with a newer ubuntu and restored what i needed from the /home.
Now that's its back up and running i'd like to make sure i can restore a cloned drive. anything i need to do special for hfs and efi machines? it seems that's the part that didn't work correctly as the ext4 stuff was accessible if i just mounted the drive but none of the hfs stuff which is where efi stores files too.
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Not very sure. Here the test we have is working.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Any error messages shown on the screen when you were restoring the image?
Steven.
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i was using 1.25.17 amd64 i didn't notice any errors.
i'll use 1.2.6-24 tonight on my first clone since i've rebuilt.
but basically the restore should work then? there is nothing i need to do on the backup to make sure its doing it correct with efi hfs+ and then a few ext4 partitions?
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"there is nothing i need to do on the backup to make sure its doing it correct with efi hfs+ and then a few ext4 partitions?" -> Nothing really, unless there are bugs…
If so, we will do our best to fix that.
Steven.
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hmmm well i checked the usb disk I backed it up to and the hfsplus partition was 104bytes. now i just tried again on the latest version and it scrolled by so quick i couldn't read but it didn't error. it said it backed up the hfsplus partition in .33 seconds. again it was 104bytes. my hfsplus partition has an entire snow leopard install on it so it'll be more than 104. I don't see logs saved to my target usb disk so unless i can somehow screen capture i don't know how to send you want is happening?
and actually this time on the latest version when it got to my /ext4 /home part it errored in red and said "Something went wrong!!" but i didn't notice what.
so what is the best way to troubleshoot this? i picked beginner mode, if i drop to expert mode can i | tee the output to that usb disk? I'd just have to know the command to run.
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OK, apparently there is some problem when imaging the HFS+ partition. Normally Clonezilla should stop and wait for you to press the enter to continue. This is weird…
Is that possible you can do some file system on your HFS+ partition? I believe there is some tool on Mac OS you can do that.
As for ext4 partition, please run fsck.ext4 to check and fix the integrity of file system.
Steven.
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not sure your question exactly. on macOS i can run verify and repair disk. However it was like this before my hdd died and now i've ordered new drive, clean install, and still like this so i don't think its filesystem errors causing it to break.
are there any logs i can grab to help troubleshoot to get it working?
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There is a log file /var/log/partclone.log which you might check, however, by default we do not turn the verse mode on.
If you are familiar with command "screen", you can enter the command line, start "screen", then run the command "clonezilla" to log everything.
Steven.
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Regarding the below issue, has there been any resolution? I am using the latest build clonezilla-live-1.2.6-59-amd64
"I backed it up to and the hfsplus partition was 104bytes. now i just tried again on the latest version and it scrolled by so quick i couldn't read but it didn't error. it said it backed up the hfsplus partition in .33 seconds. again it was 104bytes. my hfsplus partition has an entire snow leopard install on it so it'll be more than 104."
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2011-02-23
nope… and i didn't have time to try to log everything and post here to troubleshoot.
I ended up using a hiren boot cd :(
I figure one day they'll get hfs partitions working here.
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I have a slightly unique config. I have a macbook pro but primarily boot ubuntu on it. As such, my partitions are hfs+ for booting into macosx, then an ext4 /boot, ext4 /home, and ext4 / and linux swap. I've used clonezilla live to clone this so that if i have an hdd failure i could restore the entire drive and be up and running quick. for daily changes i use back in time on my linux /home.
Recently i had my hdd fail and the restored drive wouldn't boot in my mac. just would come up to a folder with a ? on it. I took the opportunity to rebuild the machine with a newer ubuntu and restored what i needed from the /home.
Now that's its back up and running i'd like to make sure i can restore a cloned drive. anything i need to do special for hfs and efi machines? it seems that's the part that didn't work correctly as the ext4 stuff was accessible if i just mounted the drive but none of the hfs stuff which is where efi stores files too.
Not very sure. Here the test we have is working.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
Any error messages shown on the screen when you were restoring the image?
Steven.
i was using 1.25.17 amd64 i didn't notice any errors.
i'll use 1.2.6-24 tonight on my first clone since i've rebuilt.
but basically the restore should work then? there is nothing i need to do on the backup to make sure its doing it correct with efi hfs+ and then a few ext4 partitions?
"there is nothing i need to do on the backup to make sure its doing it correct with efi hfs+ and then a few ext4 partitions?" -> Nothing really, unless there are bugs…
If so, we will do our best to fix that.
Steven.
hmmm well i checked the usb disk I backed it up to and the hfsplus partition was 104bytes. now i just tried again on the latest version and it scrolled by so quick i couldn't read but it didn't error. it said it backed up the hfsplus partition in .33 seconds. again it was 104bytes. my hfsplus partition has an entire snow leopard install on it so it'll be more than 104. I don't see logs saved to my target usb disk so unless i can somehow screen capture i don't know how to send you want is happening?
and actually this time on the latest version when it got to my /ext4 /home part it errored in red and said "Something went wrong!!" but i didn't notice what.
so what is the best way to troubleshoot this? i picked beginner mode, if i drop to expert mode can i | tee the output to that usb disk? I'd just have to know the command to run.
OK, apparently there is some problem when imaging the HFS+ partition. Normally Clonezilla should stop and wait for you to press the enter to continue. This is weird…
Is that possible you can do some file system on your HFS+ partition? I believe there is some tool on Mac OS you can do that.
As for ext4 partition, please run fsck.ext4 to check and fix the integrity of file system.
Steven.
not sure your question exactly. on macOS i can run verify and repair disk. However it was like this before my hdd died and now i've ordered new drive, clean install, and still like this so i don't think its filesystem errors causing it to break.
are there any logs i can grab to help troubleshoot to get it working?
There is a log file /var/log/partclone.log which you might check, however, by default we do not turn the verse mode on.
If you are familiar with command "screen", you can enter the command line, start "screen", then run the command "clonezilla" to log everything.
Steven.
Regarding the below issue, has there been any resolution? I am using the latest build clonezilla-live-1.2.6-59-amd64
"I backed it up to and the hfsplus partition was 104bytes. now i just tried again on the latest version and it scrolled by so quick i couldn't read but it didn't error. it said it backed up the hfsplus partition in .33 seconds. again it was 104bytes. my hfsplus partition has an entire snow leopard install on it so it'll be more than 104."
nope… and i didn't have time to try to log everything and post here to troubleshoot.
I ended up using a hiren boot cd :(
I figure one day they'll get hfs partitions working here.