I created an image of a drive, and it was automatically tested at creation and tested good.
BUT, while I was imaging another computer, the hard drive usb cable got tangled up in a chair and the hard drive fell off a table and took a pretty solid thunk.
Good news: The drive appears to be working fine and I've saved several other images to it and they all tested great. BUT, I'd like to go back and confirm that first image that was stored before the fall was ok. I assume checksums of the images were created when the images were initially created for the automated test.
Are those checksums stored somewhere so I could run a checksum utility and confirm the images are still intact?
thanks!
Last edit: Kilarin 2013-08-06
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I created an image of a drive, and it was automatically tested at creation and tested good.
BUT, while I was imaging another computer, the hard drive usb cable got tangled up in a chair and the hard drive fell off a table and took a pretty solid thunk.
Good news: The drive appears to be working fine and I've saved several other images to it and they all tested great. BUT, I'd like to go back and confirm that first image that was stored before the fall was ok. I assume checksums of the images were created when the images were initially created for the automated test.
Are those checksums stored somewhere so I could run a checksum utility and confirm the images are still intact?
thanks!
Last edit: Kilarin 2013-08-06
The CRC checksum was saved by partclone and it is inside the image.
You can use choose "chk-img-restorable" option before doing a real image restoring when you see:
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/02_Restore_disk_image/images/ocs-08-restoredisk.png
It will check the checksum without really writing the image back to the harddrive/partition.
Steven.