How to get a file from Clonezilla image?

[Ricardo Gunawan]

Hi....
I previously backed-up partitions using Clonezilla 3.2.0-5 with zst compression. Those partitions are local and backed-up to a different local partition in same disk. I have an external USB HDD, too, it's about 2TB free space.
The question:
I want a file, only a single file , it's a configuration file. How do i get that file?

I was trying to use this command so later I can mount this image to /mnt or somewhere else, but had no luck:

zstd -dc -T0 /media/akrogun/DATA/IMAGE/Kubuntu/sda7.ext4-ptcl-img.zst 2> /media/akrogun/WD\ 3TB/sda7/unzip_cmd_error.log | LC_ALL=C sudo partclone.ext4 --buffer_size 10485760 --logfile /media/akrogun/WD\ 3TB/sda7/partclone.log --source - --restore --no_check --overwrite /media/akrogun/WD\ 3TB/sda7/sda7.img

How do I fix it?
Thanks.

Ah yes,
Also, I was reading here and here, but did not mentioned using zst compression.

FYI, I got command above from Clonezilla itself while using no-GUI restoring procedure.

[SOLVED]
Finally, I figured it out to use VirtualBox to get that configuration file. (This link on methode 1)
Here are how I did it:

1. Create virtual disk with Clonezilla Live iso.
2. Create virtual hardisk and add to storage.
3. Prepare Samba server from your host OS, and point to your image directory.
4. Boot Clonezilla Live. Use samba_server.
5. Restore
6. Mount the virtual hardisk to /mnt or somewhere else.
7. Grab your file.

[UPDATE]
Yes, I finally can extract that zst compression image and then mount to /mnt by following this link on methode 3.

[Steven Shiau]

"I was trying to use this command so later I can mount this image to /mnt or somewhere else, but had no luck:" -> What were the error messages there?
Another method is you can try to restore the image to a virtual machine (e.g., Virtualbox or VMWare). Then mount the virtual disk/partition to read that.

Steven

[Ricardo Gunawan]

Hi @steven_shiau, thanks for your reply.
Sorry for late reply.

Here is the command I've typed:

 ┗━━ $❱ zstd -dc -T0 /media/akrogun/DATA/IMAGE/Kubuntu/sda10.ext4-ptcl-img.zst 2> /home/kubuntu/akrogun/Downloads/sda10/unzip_cmd_error.log | LC_ALL=C sudo partclone.ext4 --buffer_size 10485760 --logfile /home/kubuntu/akrogun/Downloads/sda10/partclone.log --source - --restore --no_check --overwrite /home/kubuntu/akrogun/Downloads/sda10/sda10.img
[sudo] password for akrogun:
Partclone v0.3.27 http://partclone.org
Starting to restore image (-) to device (/home/kubuntu/akrogun/Downloads/sda10/sda10.img)
Calculating bitmap... Please wait...
done!
File system:  EXTFS
Device size:  838.3 GB = 204673536 Blocks
Space in use:  59.2 GB = 14464097 Blocks
Free Space:   779.1 GB = 190209439 Blocks
Block size:   4096 Byte
Elapsed: 00:08:10, Remaining: 00:00:00, Completed: 100.00%, Rate:   7.25GB/min,
Current block:  204673527, Total block:  204673536, Complete: 100.00%
Total Time: 00:08:10, Ave. Rate:   7.25GB/min, 100.00% completed!
Syncing... OK!
Partclone successfully restored the image (-) to the device (/home/kubuntu/akrogun/Downloads/sda10/sda10.img)
Cloned successfully.

 ┗━━ $❱ sudo mount -o loop "/home/kubuntu/akrogun/Downloads/sda10/sda10.img" /mnt
mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop11, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

It said succesfully cloned, but can not mount to /mnt.

You mentioned using VM, I was trying add that .img using VirtualBox and no luck either, with error message here:

Could not get the storage format of the medium '/home/kubuntu/akrogun/Downloads/sda10/sda10.img' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).


Result Code:
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0X80BB0005)
Component:
MediumWrap
Interface:
IMedium {ad47ad09-787b-44ab-b343-a082a3f2dfb1}
Callee:
IVirtualBox {7682d5eb-f00e-44f1-8ca2-99d08b1cd607}
Callee RC:
VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0X80BB0001)

I give an information from lsblk also:

 ┗━━ $❱ lsblk --output NAME,MAJ:MIN,SIZE,FSUSED,FSUSE%,MOUNTPOINTS,FSTYPE --sort NAME
NAME   MAJ:MIN   SIZE FSUSED FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS                   FSTYPE
loop0    7:0    10,7M  10,8M   100% /snap/canonical-livepatch/286 
loop1    7:1       4K   128K   100% /snap/bare/5                  
loop10   7:10   44,4M  44,5M   100% /snap/snapd/23771             
loop2    7:2    73,9M    74M   100% /snap/core22/1748             
loop3    7:3    10,7M  10,8M   100% /snap/firmware-updater/127    
loop4    7:4    73,9M    74M   100% /snap/core22/1802             
loop5    7:5    11,1M  11,3M   100% /snap/firmware-updater/167    
loop6    7:6   505,1M 505,1M   100% /snap/gnome-42-2204/176       
loop7    7:7     516M 516,1M   100% /snap/gnome-42-2204/202       
loop8    7:8    91,7M  91,8M   100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535  
loop9    7:9    38,8M  38,9M   100% /snap/snapd/21759             
sda      8:0     1,8T                                             
sda1     8:1       1G  31,7M     3% /boot/efi                     vfat
sda10    8:10  780,8G  64,2G     8% /home                         ext4
sda2     8:2      16M                                             
sda3     8:3    26,7G                                             ntfs
sda4     8:4     240G                                             ntfs
sda5     8:5   323,3G  44,2G    14% /media/akrogun/DATA           ntfs
sda6     8:6      24G                                             swap
sda7     8:7   347,2G  32,3G     9% /                             ext4
sda8     8:8      60G                                             ext4
sda9     8:9      60G                                             ext4
sdb      8:16    2,7T                                             
sdb1     8:17  234,5G                                             exfat
sdb2     8:18     32M                                             vfat
sdb3     8:19    2,5T 434,3G    17% /media/akrogun/WD 3TB         exfat
sr0     11:0    1024M     

[Ricardo Gunawan]

Hi again @steven_shiau....
The problem is solved.

I finally figured out how to get that configuration file using VirtualBox.

Thanks.