I'm an experienced linux and clonezilla user, new to bsd. I routinely save images of my linux and windows partitions to a second hard drive. Clonezilla has saved my butt many times when I've screwed something up beyond repair.
When I try to make a clonezilla image of my bsd partition, clonezilla recognizes it as a bsd slice with the correct 30GB size. But when it generates an image (with no reported errors) it takes only a few seconds and the final size of the image folder is only 88kB,
Using clonezilla-live-1.2.9-19-i486
installed PC-BSD 8.2 in primary partition 4 (ada0s4). The partition scheme was as follows:
From what I know PC-BSD 8.2 and 9.0 use the file system UFS+SUJ by default, which is not supported by Clonezilla (Partclone).
We will try to see if it can be supported in the future.
Steven.
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2013-03-29
I'm having the same issues trying to clone PC-BSD systems that were installed using full disk encryption using either FFS or ZFS. I have tried using the dd/raw cloning option but it still fails to restore properly.
If I make a disk image using the dd command, that will backup and restore properly, but it's slow.
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Due to a Linux kernel issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873155
We are not able to find the correct slices/partitions on PC-BSD.
Therefore we are not able to image PC-BSD.
I believe we still have to wait for the upstream to fix this issue.
Steven.
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I'm an experienced linux and clonezilla user, new to bsd. I routinely save images of my linux and windows partitions to a second hard drive. Clonezilla has saved my butt many times when I've screwed something up beyond repair.
When I try to make a clonezilla image of my bsd partition, clonezilla recognizes it as a bsd slice with the correct 30GB size. But when it generates an image (with no reported errors) it takes only a few seconds and the final size of the image folder is only 88kB,
Using clonezilla-live-1.2.9-19-i486
installed PC-BSD 8.2 in primary partition 4 (ada0s4). The partition scheme was as follows:
ada0s4 /boot 1000 UFS+S
ada0s4 none 2000 swap
ada0s4 /,/var,/usr 27000 ZFS
The image folder looks like this:
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 16225 Jan 8 09:44 Info-dmi.txt
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 26388 Jan 8 09:44 Info-lshw.txt
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 3331 Jan 8 09:44 Info-lspci.txt
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 168 Jan 8 09:44 Info-packages.txt
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 5 Jan 8 09:44 parts
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 37 Jan 8 09:44 sda-chs.sf
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 31744 Jan 8 09:44 sda-hidden-data-after-mbr
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 512 Jan 8 09:44 sda-mbr
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 945 Jan 8 09:44 sda-pt.parted
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 789 Jan 8 09:44 sda-pt.sf
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 7 Jan 8 09:44 sda4-size
-rw----- 1 root wheel 5727 Jan 8 09:44 sda4.dd-img.aa
-rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 20 Jan 8 09:44 sda4.dd-img.info
From what I know PC-BSD 8.2 and 9.0 use the file system UFS+SUJ by default, which is not supported by Clonezilla (Partclone).
We will try to see if it can be supported in the future.
Steven.
I'm having the same issues trying to clone PC-BSD systems that were installed using full disk encryption using either FFS or ZFS. I have tried using the dd/raw cloning option but it still fails to restore properly.
If I make a disk image using the dd command, that will backup and restore properly, but it's slow.
Due to a Linux kernel issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873155
We are not able to find the correct slices/partitions on PC-BSD.
Therefore we are not able to image PC-BSD.
I believe we still have to wait for the upstream to fix this issue.
Steven.