unknown format for sda1.ntfs-img.aa

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I've created an image for a 160gb HDD.

Restoring the images is resulting in:

Unknown format for /home/partimag/2018-02-10-18-img/sda1.ntfs-img.aa.

Program terminated.

On the Screenshot you see the partition table. On one attempt there was a
filesystem for partition 1. 1 out of 10 attempts or so :/

I've used live_stable 2.5.2-31-amd64

Image source is a exFAT drive

The metadata in the img-directory seems ok for me. I hope these screenshots
will be visible.

Thanks in advance for any ideas

[Steven Shiau]

Did you try testing Clonezilla live, like 2.5.5-27 or 20180214-bionic?
Any difference?

Steven

[Shawn K. Hall]

I'm not the OP but I'm having the same problem. I tried clonezilla_live_stable-2.5.2-31-i686, clonezilla-live-2.5.5-38-amd64, and clonezilla-live-20180329-bionic-amd64. All fail with the same error as above (unknown format ... ntfs-img.aa).

The ntfs-img files are uncompressed, which I suspect is why they failed to run. I was able to get around it by exiting to a terminal then running ntfsclone directly.

sudo su -
cat /home/partimag/DUMP/mmcblk0p3.ntfs-img.* | ntfsclone --restore-image -O /dev/mmcblk0p3 -
cat /home/partimag/DUMP/mmcblk0p4.ntfs-img.* | ntfsclone --restore-image -O /dev/mmcblk0p4 -

[Steven Shiau]

Please describe how you saved the image so that we can try to reproduce this issue. Thanks.

Steven