Hi all:)
I've backed up an image of my HDD to an SSH server. The option used was dd with gzip
Is there a way to verify that the backup is error free/ correct etc ? (preferably without having to uncompress the whole image)
Can you for example mount the backed up image ?
Thanks for any advice.
Suranjith
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Thanks Steven :)
What if I use the uncompressed backup option ? Then , Does clonezilla encode / encrypt files in any way ?
Would clonezilla work with a directly attached USB hard drive ?
Thanks.
Suranjith
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Suranjith,
If the image is not compressed, and it's dumped by dd, you can use any mount command to mount the partition file if it's not split. It's like:
mount -o loop /home/partimag/$YOURIMAGE/sda1 /mnt
Then you can find the all the files in dir /mnt.
If the image is split and gzipped, you can do it like:
cat /home/partimag/$YOURIMAGE/sda1.ntfs-img.* | gzip -d -c > sda1
Then you can mount sda1 like the above method.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Hi all:)
I've backed up an image of my HDD to an SSH server. The option used was dd with gzip
Is there a way to verify that the backup is error free/ correct etc ? (preferably without having to uncompress the whole image)
Can you for example mount the backed up image ?
Thanks for any advice.
Suranjith
Since your image is gzipped, so it can _NOT_ be mounted directly.
Thanks Steven :)
What if I use the uncompressed backup option ? Then , Does clonezilla encode / encrypt files in any way ?
Would clonezilla work with a directly attached USB hard drive ?
Thanks.
Suranjith
Suranjith,
If the image is not compressed, and it's dumped by dd, you can use any mount command to mount the partition file if it's not split. It's like:
mount -o loop /home/partimag/$YOURIMAGE/sda1 /mnt
Then you can find the all the files in dir /mnt.
If the image is split and gzipped, you can do it like:
cat /home/partimag/$YOURIMAGE/sda1.ntfs-img.* | gzip -d -c > sda1
Then you can mount sda1 like the above method.