Restoring a partition on a live system
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Hi,
I've searched the clonezilla forums and wasn't able to find if anybody had posted a similar question already. If so, I apologize and please point me to the info.
I'd like to restore an 'inactive' partition (created from clonezilla and stored on an NFS server) from within a live Linux system. For example, I'm currently running RHEL4 from /dev/sda12 and I've booted from /dev/sda1. I want to restore /dev/sda14. I'll then modify grub (and related files) accordingly so that I can boot this new RHEL5 partition.
I'm guessing that I can either use clonezilla or some of the tools that clonezilla uses (e.g., partimage and/or partclone) from within Linux. I just don't know how to go about this.
By the way, the reason for me trying to do this is that I don't always have access to the CD to boot clonezilla-live and restore using the 'usual' method.
Hopefully, I've made myself clear. Let me know if I need to clarify. Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
...Brian
Brian,
There is a similar Q&A you can refer:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/42_manually_ntfsclone.faq#42_manually_ntfsclone.faq
Basically you have to:
1. cat the images if it's split
2. uncompress the images
3. pipe that to partimage or partclone
As for partimage or partclone commands, you can get the help by "partimage --help" or "partclone.ext3 --help", or you can refer to the script program /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions.
Good luck.
Steven.