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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla deleted all files on the target partition - Data found.

[Simon L. <si...@si...>]

Here we go.  This is the part of the process that wrote over the data in
the disc partition:

http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/fine-print.php?fullmode=0&path=./01_Save_disk_image/08-select-disk-as-img-repo.doc#08-select-disk-as-img-repo.doc

On the bottom of the page one can see the process,
"Then Clonezilla shows you the disk usage report:"

At this point I aborted the process.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla deleted all files on the target partition - Data found.

[Simon L. <si...@si...>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Simon Loewen wrote:
>> I rechecked the drives, and I was very very very lucky.
>>
>> I had accidentally selected sdc2 for the TARGET image, when I had
>> thought that I had selected /dev/sdb2 where the precious backed up
>> data lies.  The data is still there.
>>
>> However, what concerns me if that CZ still uses an entire disc
>> directory   to write its file system into, and if one selected the top
>> level of the mount then all data there will disappear.   I think that
>> it ought to be clearer that  it shall delete all data in that
>> directory first, as the contents of the other drive shows.
>>
>> Final question:
>>
>> Can I use a set-up like this?
>>
>> /dev/sdc2  for the CZ operating system area.
>> /dev/sdc2  for the target image.
>> /dev/sda1  for the source partition.
> 
> Are you doing a disk->image copy or disk->disk?  In the disk->image
> case, clonezilla should not delete anything.  It should just create a
> new directory of the name you give for the image and put some new files
> under it.  In the disk->disk mode it is going to duplicate the source
> exactly and wipe out whatever was on the target just like an image->disk
> run would.
> 

Hi Les & Bill,

	I used disk->image.  During the process it prompted where to place the
target images, which I set to / on a usb partition.  It then set the
target dir to /home/partimage (or something similar) to / on the usb
partition. I think at this point it copied its O/S into there and
chrooted onto it.  Afterwards, as I mentioned afore, it wrote these
files onto it:
-r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root   107 2009-07-20 03:38 Clonezilla-Live-Version
>> -r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root 17982 2009-07-19 02:50 COPYING
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 isolinux
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 live
>> dr-xr-xr-x 5 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 utils

Perhaps, I skipped over a step.  It was around 10pm I did this.  I shall
read the documentation again to see where I went wrong.

S.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla deleted all files on the target partition - Data found.

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Simon Loewen wrote:
> I rechecked the drives, and I was very very very lucky.
> 
> I had accidentally selected sdc2 for the TARGET image, when I had 
> thought that I had selected /dev/sdb2 where the precious backed up data 
> lies.  The data is still there.
> 
> However, what concerns me if that CZ still uses an entire disc directory 
>   to write its file system into, and if one selected the top level of 
> the mount then all data there will disappear.   I think that it ought to 
> be clearer that  it shall delete all data in that directory first, as 
> the contents of the other drive shows.
> 
> Final question:
> 
> Can I use a set-up like this?
> 
> /dev/sdc2  for the CZ operating system area.
> /dev/sdc2  for the target image.
> /dev/sda1  for the source partition.

Are you doing a disk->image copy or disk->disk?  In the disk->image 
case, clonezilla should not delete anything.  It should just create a 
new directory of the name you give for the image and put some new files 
under it.  In the disk->disk mode it is going to duplicate the source 
exactly and wipe out whatever was on the target just like an image->disk 
run would.

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla deleted all files on the target partition - Data found.

[Bill G. <gu...@io...>]

Hi Simon:

I'm very glad that disaster was averted.

We'll have to see what Steven Shiau says about your experience.  I can't 
explain it.

But I must say:  I've been using clonezilla-live for a couple of years 
now, backing up to a variety of targets via ssh and local drives via 
USB, IDE and SATA interfaces, and I don't recall clonezilla EVER 
deleting anything during its backup process.  It has an algorithm for 
naming the target directory and saves the image files there.  It shows 
you this name and you have the opportunity of modifying it.  It also 
warns you about what it is going to do, and gives you a chance to bail 
out.  When restoring a partition, it gives you extra warnings.

So I am truly puzzled about what happened to you.



Simon Loewen wrote:
> I rechecked the drives, and I was very very very lucky.
> 
> I had accidentally selected sdc2 for the TARGET image, when I had 
> thought that I had selected /dev/sdb2 where the precious backed up data 
> lies.  The data is still there.
> 
> However, what concerns me if that CZ still uses an entire disc directory 
>   to write its file system into, and if one selected the top level of 
> the mount then all data there will disappear.   I think that it ought to 
> be clearer that  it shall delete all data in that directory first, as 
> the contents of the other drive shows.
> 
> Final question:
> 
> Can I use a set-up like this?
> 
> /dev/sdc2  for the CZ operating system area.
> /dev/sdc2  for the target image.
> /dev/sda1  for the source partition.
> 
> Regards,
> S.
> 
> PS.  USB drive has been disconnected and placed into a cupboard for safe 
> keeping.
> 
> 
> Simon Loewen wrote:
>> Dear all Clonezilla users,
>>
>> 	Today, I used Clonezilla for the first time.  As a test I decided to 
>> see how it worked.  I used the 'clone partition to an image' option ( I 
>> cannot remember the exact terminology).
>>
>> Clonezilla asked me where it could write the TARGET images to.  I 
>> instructed it to use my USB *BACKUP* disc under the directory /, 
>> expecting it to write a file into it.
>>
>> No, it deleted everything and wrote this onto the disc partition:
>> # ls -l /media/1.2.2-26/
>> total 25
>> -r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root   107 2009-07-20 03:38 Clonezilla-Live-Version
>> -r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root 17982 2009-07-19 02:50 COPYING
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 isolinux
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 live
>> dr-xr-xr-x 5 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 utils
>>
>> As a result, I have lost all my backups, including all my work related 
>> to music that I have had since 2001.  All files. Everything. Yes, this 
>> does equate to a heavy financial loss.  Yes, I cannot reproduce the 
>> data.  Yes, I lost the invoices that I had to keep for tax purposes 
>> thatI have to produce some time next year.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> * Does anyone know of any tools that can recover lost files?  The 
>> filesystem type is ext3. *
>>
>> Regards, S.
>>
>>
>> PS. Of course, I thank-you in advance if I am not lectured about keeping 
>> files in disc one partition and not having at least two or three disc 
>> backups, but discs are not that cheap, and I had expected Clonezilla to 
>> at least state that it was going to delete everything under the 
>> directory.  Agreed, this was still a user-error.
>>
>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla deleted all files on the target partition - Data found.

[Simon L. <si...@si...>]

I rechecked the drives, and I was very very very lucky.

I had accidentally selected sdc2 for the TARGET image, when I had 
thought that I had selected /dev/sdb2 where the precious backed up data 
lies.  The data is still there.

However, what concerns me if that CZ still uses an entire disc directory 
  to write its file system into, and if one selected the top level of 
the mount then all data there will disappear.   I think that it ought to 
be clearer that  it shall delete all data in that directory first, as 
the contents of the other drive shows.

Final question:

Can I use a set-up like this?

/dev/sdc2  for the CZ operating system area.
/dev/sdc2  for the target image.
/dev/sda1  for the source partition.

Regards,
S.

PS.  USB drive has been disconnected and placed into a cupboard for safe 
keeping.


Simon Loewen wrote:
> Dear all Clonezilla users,
> 
> 	Today, I used Clonezilla for the first time.  As a test I decided to 
> see how it worked.  I used the 'clone partition to an image' option ( I 
> cannot remember the exact terminology).
> 
> Clonezilla asked me where it could write the TARGET images to.  I 
> instructed it to use my USB *BACKUP* disc under the directory /, 
> expecting it to write a file into it.
> 
> No, it deleted everything and wrote this onto the disc partition:
> # ls -l /media/1.2.2-26/
> total 25
> -r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root   107 2009-07-20 03:38 Clonezilla-Live-Version
> -r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root 17982 2009-07-19 02:50 COPYING
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 isolinux
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 live
> dr-xr-xr-x 5 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 utils
> 
> As a result, I have lost all my backups, including all my work related 
> to music that I have had since 2001.  All files. Everything. Yes, this 
> does equate to a heavy financial loss.  Yes, I cannot reproduce the 
> data.  Yes, I lost the invoices that I had to keep for tax purposes 
> thatI have to produce some time next year.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> * Does anyone know of any tools that can recover lost files?  The 
> filesystem type is ext3. *
> 
> Regards, S.
> 
> 
> PS. Of course, I thank-you in advance if I am not lectured about keeping 
> files in disc one partition and not having at least two or three disc 
> backups, but discs are not that cheap, and I had expected Clonezilla to 
> at least state that it was going to delete everything under the 
> directory.  Agreed, this was still a user-error.
> 
> 
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[Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla deleted all files on the target partition - Data lost.

[Simon L. <si...@si...>]

Dear all Clonezilla users,

	Today, I used Clonezilla for the first time.  As a test I decided to 
see how it worked.  I used the 'clone partition to an image' option ( I 
cannot remember the exact terminology).

Clonezilla asked me where it could write the TARGET images to.  I 
instructed it to use my USB *BACKUP* disc under the directory /, 
expecting it to write a file into it.

No, it deleted everything and wrote this onto the disc partition:
# ls -l /media/1.2.2-26/
total 25
-r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root   107 2009-07-20 03:38 Clonezilla-Live-Version
-r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root 17982 2009-07-19 02:50 COPYING
dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 isolinux
dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 live
dr-xr-xr-x 5 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 utils

As a result, I have lost all my backups, including all my work related 
to music that I have had since 2001.  All files. Everything. Yes, this 
does equate to a heavy financial loss.  Yes, I cannot reproduce the 
data.  Yes, I lost the invoices that I had to keep for tax purposes 
thatI have to produce some time next year.




* Does anyone know of any tools that can recover lost files?  The 
filesystem type is ext3. *

Regards, S.


PS. Of course, I thank-you in advance if I am not lectured about keeping 
files in disc one partition and not having at least two or three disc 
backups, but discs are not that cheap, and I had expected Clonezilla to 
at least state that it was going to delete everything under the 
directory.  Agreed, this was still a user-error.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla with Dell T3400, XP, and Software RAID

[Steve P. <Ste...@de...>]

Steven,

After trying Ubuntu 9.0.4 Server, it found the RAID without issue.  It loaded a module called dcdbas (Dell Systems Management Base Driver) which seems to help. Then it finds the device through /dev/mapper.

Steve


On 8/12/09 10:35 AM, "Steven Shiau" <st...@nc...> wrote:

Actually I have no idea since I have no such hardware here.
Maybe you can try to google to find the module name, or try to find that
on a working GNU/Linux system.
What's the OS inside the RAID hard drive ?

Steven.

Steve Poe wrote:
> What module should be loading into memory if it is detecting
> the  ICHR9 SATA RAID properly? I am booting with 1.22-26 and it does
> not see the RAID device I created but the two separate disks. This
> isn't how we want it to work.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:07 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
>
>> The bug maybe fixed in newer kernel... Since 1.2.2-26 comes with
>> newer kernel, please give it a try.
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> Steve Poe wrote:
>>> The last version tried was 1.22-14
>>>
>>> I did not recall seeing a bug report for the Intel raid support.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On 8/7/09, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...
>>> <mailto:st...@nc...>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>> Does Clonezilla live 20070729-jaunty work or not ?
>>>>
>>>> Steven.
>>>>
>>>> Steve Poe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We have a Dell T3400 with a built-in Intel ICHR9 SATA RAID controller
>>>>> (Intel Matrix Storage Option). With a two-disc system, we have
>>>>> configured
>>>>> RAID-1 and RAID-0.  When we try to clone the disks, Clonezilla has
>>>>> trouble reading/writing to the drives. Clonezilla sees two
>>>>> drives but not one. One drive maybe recognized (manufacturer name and
>>>>> disk size) while the other is not recognized.
>>>>>
>>>>> To image the system, we had to use dd option but it would not restore.
>>>>> We're stuck. Any thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla support for ext4 file system

[Jay M. <jay...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:

Clonezilla live 1.2.2-26 does support to save and restore ext4 partition.
> However, if grub is installed on an ext4 partition, Clonezilla live 1.2.2-26
> won't handle that correctly.
> It's recommended to use Clonezilla live 20090727-jaunty to deal with ext4,
> since ubuntu jaunty has a patch to make grub work with ext4 partition.
> BTW, a reminder: ext4 is not officially by grub.
>
> Steven.


Steven,

Thanks for your reply. On my PC, GRUB is installed on the / (root) partition
& I boot into Ubuntu 9.04 from the NT bootloader using the bootpart method (
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) as mentioned at
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.html#install.

I could not find Clonezilla Live 20090727-jaunty anywhere in the Synaptic
Package Manager, but it is there on the Clonezilla Sourceforge Project page.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/files/

Will try out the Jaunty version of Clonezilla.

Thanks,

Jay Mistry

_PS_
As other Linux distributions with newer Linux kernel have support for the
ext4 file system (eg Fedora 11), many users who also use Windows w/ Linux &
boot through the Windows NT loader would also put GRUB on the / (root)
partition of their Linux install. Considering this, will later versions of
Clonezilla Live CD have support for backing up GRUB on an ext4 partition ?



>
> Jay Mistry wrote:
>
>> I used Clonezilla Live CD (1.2.2-14) to make a backup image of the /
>> (root) and /home partitions of Ubuntu 9.04. Both these partitions are
>> formatted as ext4. It could make the image and save it properly (saved to
>> another NTFS partition of 2nd HD on same PC). Howevr there were some error
>> messages in the console about not being able to mount the ext4 partitions
>> properly.
>>
>> Is there an issue with imaging ext4 type partitions or does Clonezilla
>> LIve CD (latest stable version) have support for reliable ext4 FS backups ?
>>
>> Thanks,
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla with Dell T3400, XP, and Software RAID

[Steve P. <Ste...@de...>]

With the Intel chipset, I had higher hopes, now, but from the time I've spent googling this, quite a few have called what Intel is offering fakeraid. The OS that was on the system was XP, but I've removed it and tried Ubuntu Desktop 9 and Centos 5.1. Centos recognized it as a dmraid. Dell claims it is hardware raid, but their sadly mistaken.  If I had to run Linux on this for deployment to our engineers, I would not care since I'd turn off the fakeraid but they need Windows.

Thanks.

Steve




On 8/12/09 10:35 AM, "Steven Shiau" <st...@nc...> wrote:

Actually I have no idea since I have no such hardware here.
Maybe you can try to google to find the module name, or try to find that
on a working GNU/Linux system.
What's the OS inside the RAID hard drive ?

Steven.

Steve Poe wrote:
> What module should be loading into memory if it is detecting
> the  ICHR9 SATA RAID properly? I am booting with 1.22-26 and it does
> not see the RAID device I created but the two separate disks. This
> isn't how we want it to work.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:07 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
>
>> The bug maybe fixed in newer kernel... Since 1.2.2-26 comes with
>> newer kernel, please give it a try.
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> Steve Poe wrote:
>>> The last version tried was 1.22-14
>>>
>>> I did not recall seeing a bug report for the Intel raid support.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On 8/7/09, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...
>>> <mailto:st...@nc...>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>> Does Clonezilla live 20070729-jaunty work or not ?
>>>>
>>>> Steven.
>>>>
>>>> Steve Poe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We have a Dell T3400 with a built-in Intel ICHR9 SATA RAID controller
>>>>> (Intel Matrix Storage Option). With a two-disc system, we have
>>>>> configured
>>>>> RAID-1 and RAID-0.  When we try to clone the disks, Clonezilla has
>>>>> trouble reading/writing to the drives. Clonezilla sees two
>>>>> drives but not one. One drive maybe recognized (manufacturer name and
>>>>> disk size) while the other is not recognized.
>>>>>
>>>>> To image the system, we had to use dd option but it would not restore.
>>>>> We're stuck. Any thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla support for ext4 file system

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Clonezilla live 1.2.2-26 does support to save and restore ext4 
partition. However, if grub is installed on an ext4 partition, 
Clonezilla live 1.2.2-26 won't handle that correctly.
It's recommended to use Clonezilla live 20090727-jaunty to deal with 
ext4, since ubuntu jaunty has a patch to make grub work with ext4 partition.
BTW, a reminder: ext4 is not officially by grub.

Steven.

Jay Mistry wrote:
> I used Clonezilla Live CD (1.2.2-14) to make a backup image of the / 
> (root) and /home partitions of Ubuntu 9.04. Both these partitions are 
> formatted as ext4. It could make the image and save it properly (saved 
> to another NTFS partition of 2nd HD on same PC). Howevr there were 
> some error messages in the console about not being able to mount the 
> ext4 partitions properly.
>
> Is there an issue with imaging ext4 type partitions or does Clonezilla 
> LIve CD (latest stable version) have support for reliable ext4 FS 
> backups ?
>
> Thanks,
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[Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla support for ext4 file system

[Jay M. <jay...@gm...>]

I used Clonezilla Live CD (1.2.2-14) to make a backup image of the / (root)
and /home partitions of Ubuntu 9.04. Both these partitions are formatted as
ext4. It could make the image and save it properly (saved to another NTFS
partition of 2nd HD on same PC). Howevr there were some error messages in
the console about not being able to mount the ext4 partitions properly.

Is there an issue with imaging ext4 type partitions or does Clonezilla LIve
CD (latest stable version) have support for reliable ext4 FS backups ?

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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla + software RAID question.

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

The reason Clonezilla does not is because all the device name clonezilla 
will look for is /dev/[hs]d[a-z], not /dev/md*
Maybe we will try to support Linux software RAID in the future.

Steven.

albinootje wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to this :
> http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/65_Clonezilla_support_RAID.faq
>
> Clonezilla does not support software RAID, but can someone provide some
> more details why not ?
>
> If I look at my software RAID 1 setup, I can still see the separate
> device file descriptors :
>
> # ls -la /dev/sda*
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda2
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda3
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda4
>
> # cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1]
> md2 : active raid1 sda4[0] sdb4[1]
>       437506112 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> md1 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1]
>       48829440 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
>       96256 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> unused devices: <none>
>
> What would go wrong if I would use clonezilla to make a clone of one of
> the two disks,
> by pointing it to the /dev/sda (etc.), and restore it on another (new) disk,
> and let the software RAID 1 sync with yet another disk later on ?
>
>
> # time dd if=/dev/sda1 of=sda1-test count=100 bs=16k
> 100+0 records in
> 100+0 records out
> 1638400 bytes (1.6 MB) copied, 6.52774 seconds, 251 kB/s
>
> real	0m6.575s
> user	0m0.000s
> sys	0m0.000s
>
> # time dd if=/dev/md0 of=md0-test count=100 bs=16k
> 100+0 records in
> 100+0 records out
> 1638400 bytes (1.6 MB) copied, 0.0736687 seconds, 22.2 MB/s
>
> real	0m0.316s
> user	0m0.004s
> sys	0m0.008s
>
> # diff md0-test sda1-test
> #
>
> .... no difference between those two test files
>
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> A.
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Issue with Dell Vostro 1500, 1320, & 220 models

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

OK, cool.
Thanks for telling us.

steven.

Richard Klein wrote:
> Steven,
>
> The Jaunty file did the trick!  Thanks so much, this is such a great software product!
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
>
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> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:07 PM
> To: Richard Klein
> Cc: 'clo...@li...'
> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Issue with Dell Vostro 1500, 1320, & 220 models
>
> How about Clonezilla live 1.2.2-26 or 20090727-jaunty ?
> Both of them come with different kernels.
>
> Regards,
> Steven.
>
> Richard Klein wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have tried to image 3 different dell systems with 
>> clonezilla-live-1.2.2-25.iso. It does work on my Dell XPS M1210 so I 
>> don't think its an issue with the disk. The system is unable to find 
>> the hard drive, it just keeps a repeating loop of trying to find the 
>> drive.
>>
>> Any ideas on why it wouldn't work?
>>
>> Thanks,
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla with Dell T3400, XP, and Software RAID

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Actually I have no idea since I have no such hardware here.
Maybe you can try to google to find the module name, or try to find that 
on a working GNU/Linux system.
What's the OS inside the RAID hard drive ?

Steven.

Steve Poe wrote:
> What module should be loading into memory if it is detecting 
> the  ICHR9 SATA RAID properly? I am booting with 1.22-26 and it does
> not see the RAID device I created but the two separate disks. This 
> isn't how we want it to work.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:07 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
>
>> The bug maybe fixed in newer kernel... Since 1.2.2-26 comes with 
>> newer kernel, please give it a try.
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> Steve Poe wrote:
>>> The last version tried was 1.22-14
>>>
>>> I did not recall seeing a bug report for the Intel raid support.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On 8/7/09, Steven Shiau <st...@nc... 
>>> <mailto:st...@nc...>> wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>> Does Clonezilla live 20070729-jaunty work or not ?
>>>>
>>>> Steven.
>>>>
>>>> Steve Poe wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>> We have a Dell T3400 with a built-in Intel ICHR9 SATA RAID controller
>>>>> (Intel Matrix Storage Option). With a two-disc system, we have 
>>>>> configured
>>>>> RAID-1 and RAID-0.  When we try to clone the disks, Clonezilla has
>>>>> trouble reading/writing to the drives. Clonezilla sees two
>>>>> drives but not one. One drive maybe recognized (manufacturer name and
>>>>> disk size) while the other is not recognized.
>>>>>
>>>>> To image the system, we had to use dd option but it would not restore.
>>>>> We're stuck. Any thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla with Dell T3400, XP, and Software RAID

[Steve P. <Ste...@de...>]

Steven,

I have not tried Clonezilla live 20070729-jaunty . I am not optimisic that it will work, here's why: Intel does not have a low-level RAID driver for the ICH9R unlike a LSI MegaRAID in the 2.6.30 kernel. I see a default SATA drivers, but the issue isn't with finding the local disks but the RAID device.  As a test, I tried a RH5.1 install and with the dm_mapper, it was able to find the RAID1_TEST device I created, but I don't know believe Clonezilla will scan for RAID devices other than LSI MegaRAID.

Thanks.

Steve


On 8/7/09 8:03 PM, "Steven Shiau" <st...@nc...> wrote:

Hi Steve,
Does Clonezilla live 20070729-jaunty work or not ?

Steven.

Steve Poe wrote:
> We have a Dell T3400 with a built-in Intel ICHR9 SATA RAID controller
> (Intel Matrix Storage Option). With a two-disc system, we have configured
> RAID-1 and RAID-0.  When we try to clone the disks, Clonezilla has
> trouble reading/writing to the drives. Clonezilla sees two
> drives but not one. One drive maybe recognized (manufacturer name and
> disk size) while the other is not recognized.
>
> To image the system, we had to use dd option but it would not restore.
> We're stuck. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve
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[Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla + software RAID question.

[albinootje <alb...@gm...>]

Hi,

According to this :
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/65_Clonezilla_support_RAID.faq

Clonezilla does not support software RAID, but can someone provide some
more details why not ?

If I look at my software RAID 1 setup, I can still see the separate
device file descriptors :

# ls -la /dev/sda*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 2009-08-08 00:54 /dev/sda4

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md2 : active raid1 sda4[0] sdb4[1]
      437506112 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1]
      48829440 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
      96256 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

What would go wrong if I would use clonezilla to make a clone of one of
the two disks,
by pointing it to the /dev/sda (etc.), and restore it on another (new) disk,
and let the software RAID 1 sync with yet another disk later on ?


# time dd if=/dev/sda1 of=sda1-test count=100 bs=16k
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
1638400 bytes (1.6 MB) copied, 6.52774 seconds, 251 kB/s

real	0m6.575s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

# time dd if=/dev/md0 of=md0-test count=100 bs=16k
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
1638400 bytes (1.6 MB) copied, 0.0736687 seconds, 22.2 MB/s

real	0m0.316s
user	0m0.004s
sys	0m0.008s

# diff md0-test sda1-test
#

.... no difference between those two test files

TIA,
A.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Issue with Dell Vostro 1500, 1320, & 220 models

[Richard K. <ri...@ri...>]

Steven,

The Jaunty file did the trick!  Thanks so much, this is such a great software product!

Thanks,
Rich


-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Shiau [mailto:st...@nc...] 
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:07 PM
To: Richard Klein
Cc: 'clo...@li...'
Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Issue with Dell Vostro 1500, 1320, & 220 models

How about Clonezilla live 1.2.2-26 or 20090727-jaunty ?
Both of them come with different kernels.

Regards,
Steven.

Richard Klein wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to image 3 different dell systems with 
> clonezilla-live-1.2.2-25.iso. It does work on my Dell XPS M1210 so I 
> don't think its an issue with the disk. The system is unable to find 
> the hard drive, it just keeps a repeating loop of trying to find the 
> drive.
>
> Any ideas on why it wouldn't work?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla with Dell T3400, XP, and Software RAID

[Steve P. <ste...@gm...>]

What module should be loading into memory if it is detecting the   
ICHR9 SATA RAID properly? I am booting with 1.22-26 and it does
not see the RAID device I created but the two separate disks. This  
isn't how we want it to work.

Steve


On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:07 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:

> The bug maybe fixed in newer kernel... Since 1.2.2-26 comes with  
> newer kernel, please give it a try.
>
> Steven.
>
> Steve Poe wrote:
>> The last version tried was 1.22-14
>>
>> I did not recall seeing a bug report for the Intel raid support.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On 8/7/09, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>> Does Clonezilla live 20070729-jaunty work or not ?
>>>
>>> Steven.
>>>
>>> Steve Poe wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have a Dell T3400 with a built-in Intel ICHR9 SATA RAID  
>>>> controller
>>>> (Intel Matrix Storage Option). With a two-disc system, we have  
>>>> configured
>>>> RAID-1 and RAID-0.  When we try to clone the disks, Clonezilla has
>>>> trouble reading/writing to the drives. Clonezilla sees two
>>>> drives but not one. One drive maybe recognized (manufacturer name  
>>>> and
>>>> disk size) while the other is not recognized.
>>>>
>>>> To image the system, we had to use dd option but it would not  
>>>> restore.
>>>> We're stuck. Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Issue with Dell Vostro 1500, 1320, & 220 models

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

How about Clonezilla live 1.2.2-26 or 20090727-jaunty ?
Both of them come with different kernels.

Regards,
Steven.

Richard Klein wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to image 3 different dell systems with 
> clonezilla-live-1.2.2-25.iso. It does work on my Dell XPS M1210 so I 
> don’t think its an issue with the disk. The system is unable to find 
> the hard drive, it just keeps a repeating loop of trying to find the 
> drive.
>
> Any ideas on why it wouldn’t work?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla with Dell T3400, XP, and Software RAID

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Steve,
Does Clonezilla live 20070729-jaunty work or not ?

Steven.

Steve Poe wrote:
> We have a Dell T3400 with a built-in Intel ICHR9 SATA RAID controller 
> (Intel Matrix Storage Option). With a two-disc system, we have configured
> RAID-1 and RAID-0.  When we try to clone the disks, Clonezilla has 
> trouble reading/writing to the drives. Clonezilla sees two
> drives but not one. One drive maybe recognized (manufacturer name and 
> disk size) while the other is not recognized.
>  
> To image the system, we had to use dd option but it would not restore. 
> We're stuck. Any thoughts?
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Steve
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[Clonezilla-live] Issue with Dell Vostro 1500, 1320, & 220 models

[Richard K. <ri...@ri...>]

Hi,

I have tried to image 3 different dell systems with clonezilla-live-1.2.2-25.iso.  It does work on my Dell XPS M1210 so I don't think its an issue with the disk.  The system is unable to find the hard drive, it just keeps a repeating loop of trying to find the drive.

Any ideas on why it wouldn't work?

Thanks,
Rich

[Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla with Dell T3400, XP, and Software RAID

[Steve P. <Ste...@de...>]

We have a Dell T3400 with a built-in Intel ICHR9 SATA RAID controller (Intel Matrix Storage Option). With a two-disc system, we have configured
RAID-1 and RAID-0.  When we try to clone the disks, Clonezilla has trouble reading/writing to the drives. Clonezilla sees two
drives but not one. One drive maybe recognized (manufacturer name and disk size) while the other is not recognized.

To image the system, we had to use dd option but it would not restore. We're stuck. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Steve



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Re: [Clonezilla-live] How to recover partition table w/out restoring rest of disk?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Kevin,
There is a partition table file in the image dir, e.g.
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/showcontent.php?topic=02_Restore_disk_image
the file "hda-chs.sf" is the partition table for hda, and its format is 
for sfdisk.
Therefore you can manually restore the partition by:
sfdisk /dev/hda < hda-chs.sf

//NOTE// sfdisk is a very powerful tool, which means it might make all 
your data on the disk disappear. Therefore use it very carefully.

BTW, there is a tool called "testdisk" included in the Clonezilla live. 
It's also a good to "guess" and recovery the lost partition table. You 
can try it, too.

Good luck.

Steven.

Kevin W. Wall wrote:
> Months back I used Clonezilla-live (1.2.2.something) to do a full image
> backup of an internal hard drive to an external USB hard drive. The internal
> disk was Linux-only and had a separate boot partition w/ MBR. File systems were
> all either ext2 (boot partition) or ext3 or swap. Running OpenSUSE 11.0 if that
> matters.
>
> Weeks ago, my son power-cycled the PC and it seems to have caused the the
> partition table to have been completely wiped and unfortunately, I don't have
> a hard copy of it anywhere. Am unable to check the file systems via fsck
> but have been able to successfully mount of few of the file systems (read-only
> just in case) and the data itself seems to be intact.
>
> Since it's been months since my latest backup (my bad; I figured I could
> get away w/ it since it's only used by my son playing BZFlag and developing
> BZFlag maps), I'd prefer not to simply restore the disk image, but rather
> would like to use the Clonezilla-live saved image from my USB drive to
> ONLY RESTORE THE PARTITION TABLE, but NOT any of the partitions.
>
> Any pointers (URLs are fine if you point to the right section) of how to
> do this? I read something about a '-j0' option to restore partition table,
> but it says not to use if I have logical drives and I don't recall if
> this OpenSUSE was installed / configured using LVM or not. (It's was an
> upgrade from OpenSUSE 10.1 which was build using a custom partitioning
> scheme.) Is there a way to tell if it was using LVM and logical partitions?
> And if it was, what then?
>
> I could just restore the whole drive and my son will be SOL wrt his
> BZFlag maps. My only "punishment" would be to have to do all the
> OpenSUSE updates again and put up with my son castigating me for
> not doing more regular backups. (Something I told HIM to do which
> is why I gave him a USB thumb drive.)
>
> Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
> TIA,
> -kevin
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Re: [Clonezilla-live] How to recover partition table w/out restoring rest of disk?

[Jorge F. <jor...@gm...>]

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 07:25:02 pm Kevin W. Wall wrote:
> ONLY RESTORE THE PARTITION TABLE, but NOT any of the partitions.

It's been a while since I used Clonezila but if I remember correctly, when you 
perform the cloning...in the directory where the actual image is stored, 
there will be a file called sda-mbr (assuming sda drive).  That's the Master 
Boot Record (first 512 bytes of drives) and the last 64 bytes there contains 
the actual partition table.  You need to boot with a Live CD (I guess you can 
use Clonezilla and bring up the shell) and do this:

# If you have a USB jump drive put in...so we can backup the current MBR
# just in case...
dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/usbdrive/sda-crippled.mbr bs=512 count=1


# Now we're going to try to restore the actual partition table. I would
# restore the whole MBR but here's this way to restore ONLY the p.table

DISCLAIMER: You use this at entirely your own risk!

cd /to/original/backup/directory/
dd if=sda-mbr of=/dev/sda bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446

If you want to restore the whole MBR:
dd if=sda-mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

HTH,
Jorge

[Clonezilla-live] How to recover partition table w/out restoring rest of disk?

[Kevin W. W. <kev...@gm...>]

Months back I used Clonezilla-live (1.2.2.something) to do a full image
backup of an internal hard drive to an external USB hard drive. The internal
disk was Linux-only and had a separate boot partition w/ MBR. File systems were
all either ext2 (boot partition) or ext3 or swap. Running OpenSUSE 11.0 if that
matters.

Weeks ago, my son power-cycled the PC and it seems to have caused the the
partition table to have been completely wiped and unfortunately, I don't have
a hard copy of it anywhere. Am unable to check the file systems via fsck
but have been able to successfully mount of few of the file systems (read-only
just in case) and the data itself seems to be intact.

Since it's been months since my latest backup (my bad; I figured I could
get away w/ it since it's only used by my son playing BZFlag and developing
BZFlag maps), I'd prefer not to simply restore the disk image, but rather
would like to use the Clonezilla-live saved image from my USB drive to
ONLY RESTORE THE PARTITION TABLE, but NOT any of the partitions.

Any pointers (URLs are fine if you point to the right section) of how to
do this? I read something about a '-j0' option to restore partition table,
but it says not to use if I have logical drives and I don't recall if
this OpenSUSE was installed / configured using LVM or not. (It's was an
upgrade from OpenSUSE 10.1 which was build using a custom partitioning
scheme.) Is there a way to tell if it was using LVM and logical partitions?
And if it was, what then?

I could just restore the whole drive and my son will be SOL wrt his
BZFlag maps. My only "punishment" would be to have to do all the
OpenSUSE updates again and put up with my son castigating me for
not doing more regular backups. (Something I told HIM to do which
is why I gave him a USB thumb drive.)

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
TIA,
-kevin
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