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From: Craig F. <cr...@es...> - 2010-12-01 23:18:53
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Hi, I am trying to restore a single partition using "restoreparts" from a clonezilla image that I created using the "savedisk" option. The disk contains several partitions, I only want to restore one of the partitions, so I thought to use the "restoreparts" option But Clonezilla does not seem to provide me with a way to do this. Example: I choose "restoreparts" option. I specify the ssh server and directory where the saved image is located Clonezilla displays the saved image directory, see screenshot below: But I do not see any way to specify which partition I want to restore. Question: How can I specify which partition I want to restore? Thanks for a great and useful software tool. Craig |
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From: Spiros G. <sn...@he...> - 2010-12-02 06:51:05
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 στις 02/12/2010 01:02 πμ, O/H Craig Findlay έγραψε: > Hi, > > I am trying to restore a single partition using "restoreparts" from a > clonezilla image that I created using the "savedisk" option. > > The disk contains several partitions, I only want to restore one of the > partitions, so I thought to use the "restoreparts" option > But Clonezilla does not seem to provide me with a way to do this. > > Example: I choose "restoreparts" option. > I specify the ssh server and directory where the saved image is located > Clonezilla displays the saved image directory, see screenshot below: > > > > But I do not see any way to specify which partition I want to restore. > Question: How can I specify which partition I want to restore? > > Thanks for a great and useful software tool. > > Craig > Hi Craig This is something you cannot do directly. I have created a script to do just that, called imgconvert. It creates a temporary image (containing only the partition you want) and you can use that image file to restore the partition More info: http://clonezilla-sysresccd.hellug.gr/reloc-img.html You can get the script by running the command: svn cat https://svn.hellug.gr/svn/clonezilla-sysresccd/trunk/create-clonezilla-sysresccd/files/imgconvert > imgconvert - -- Regards Spiros - -- gpg key URL: http://members.hellug.gr/sng/gpg-all.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAkz3PrgACgkQGnm65yv0bnr1XwD9FhnjlXbjNgaxuw2V12iE8dZL L3MgsddGsra1YLlunGAA/1b6qmNySzRdm3D3DTyfI40lZxNgdqOr/fGgaAqtJGPI =E17o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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From: Craig F. <cr...@es...> - 2010-12-02 21:04:31
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Hi Spiros, Thanks for your advice. I will get your script, it sounds like it will solve the problem Kind Regards, Craig On 2/12/2010 5:37 PM, Spiros Georgaras wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > στις 02/12/2010 01:02 πμ, O/H Craig Findlay έγραψε: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to restore a single partition using "restoreparts" from a >> clonezilla image that I created using the "savedisk" option. >> >> The disk contains several partitions, I only want to restore one of the >> partitions, so I thought to use the "restoreparts" option >> But Clonezilla does not seem to provide me with a way to do this. >> >> Example: I choose "restoreparts" option. >> I specify the ssh server and directory where the saved image is located >> Clonezilla displays the saved image directory, see screenshot below: >> >> >> >> But I do not see any way to specify which partition I want to restore. >> Question: How can I specify which partition I want to restore? >> >> Thanks for a great and useful software tool. >> >> Craig >> > Hi Craig > > This is something you cannot do directly. I have created a script to do just > that, called imgconvert. It creates a temporary image (containing only the > partition you want) and you can use that image file to restore the partition > > More info: http://clonezilla-sysresccd.hellug.gr/reloc-img.html > > You can get the script by running the command: > svn cat > https://svn.hellug.gr/svn/clonezilla-sysresccd/trunk/create-clonezilla-sysresccd/files/imgconvert >> imgconvert > > - -- > Regards > Spiros > > - -- > gpg key URL: http://members.hellug.gr/sng/gpg-all.html > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iF4EAREIAAYFAkz3PrgACgkQGnm65yv0bnr1XwD9FhnjlXbjNgaxuw2V12iE8dZL > L3MgsddGsra1YLlunGAA/1b6qmNySzRdm3D3DTyfI40lZxNgdqOr/fGgaAqtJGPI > =E17o > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App& Earn a Chance To Win $500! > Tap into the largest installed PC base& get more eyes on your game by > optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the > Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live |
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From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2010-12-07 08:58:54
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Or you can manually convert the image, check this Q&A: http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/102_restore_image_to_different_partition.faq#102_restore_image_to_different_partition.faq In the future we will try to include the program which Spiros has developed. Thanks. Steven. On 2010/12/3 上午 05:04, Craig Findlay wrote: > Hi Spiros, > > Thanks for your advice. I will get your script, it sounds like it will > solve the problem > > Kind Regards, > Craig > > On 2/12/2010 5:37 PM, Spiros Georgaras wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> στις 02/12/2010 01:02 πμ, O/H Craig Findlay έγραψε: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to restore a single partition using "restoreparts" from a >>> clonezilla image that I created using the "savedisk" option. >>> >>> The disk contains several partitions, I only want to restore one of the >>> partitions, so I thought to use the "restoreparts" option >>> But Clonezilla does not seem to provide me with a way to do this. >>> >>> Example: I choose "restoreparts" option. >>> I specify the ssh server and directory where the saved image is located >>> Clonezilla displays the saved image directory, see screenshot below: >>> >>> >>> >>> But I do not see any way to specify which partition I want to restore. >>> Question: How can I specify which partition I want to restore? >>> >>> Thanks for a great and useful software tool. >>> >>> Craig >>> >> Hi Craig >> >> This is something you cannot do directly. I have created a script to do just >> that, called imgconvert. It creates a temporary image (containing only the >> partition you want) and you can use that image file to restore the partition >> >> More info: http://clonezilla-sysresccd.hellug.gr/reloc-img.html >> >> You can get the script by running the command: >> svn cat >> https://svn.hellug.gr/svn/clonezilla-sysresccd/trunk/create-clonezilla-sysresccd/files/imgconvert >>> imgconvert >> >> - -- >> Regards >> Spiros >> >> - -- >> gpg key URL: http://members.hellug.gr/sng/gpg-all.html >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iF4EAREIAAYFAkz3PrgACgkQGnm65yv0bnr1XwD9FhnjlXbjNgaxuw2V12iE8dZL >> L3MgsddGsra1YLlunGAA/1b6qmNySzRdm3D3DTyfI40lZxNgdqOr/fGgaAqtJGPI >> =E17o >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App& Earn a Chance To Win $500! >> Tap into the largest installed PC base& get more eyes on your game by >> optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the >> Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Clonezilla-live mailing list >> Clo...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App& Earn a Chance To Win $500! > Tap into the largest installed PC base& get more eyes on your game by > optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the > Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
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From: Robert K C. J. -I. F. D. Corp. <bco...@in...> - 2010-12-02 22:10:15
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Hello I tried to used clonezilla. I found out that it did what it says it does. I didn't have to read a doc, howto, or a manual. My images create without issue, no matter the file system or OS I'm cloning. I've never had a restore fail. I'd love to see it restore to smaller disks/partitions, but I understand that if I really want that, I could work to make it happen and nobody owes it to me. etc cetera ad infinitum... Thanks Team Clonezilla... - Bob Coffman |
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From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2010-12-03 17:47:54
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On 12/3/2010 11:34 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
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>> I wanted an open source solution, and found clonezilla. I realized
>> early on that it is not for someone who expects a simple point-and-click
>> interface. But I read the docs and didn't have any trouble
>> understanding how to use it.
>
> In my eyes Clonezilla only caters to the simplistic point-and-click users.
No, it really caters to the fully-automatic users that want to repeat
the same clone many times without any intervention.
> There is no way to get control over the operations Clonezilla performs
> with the current user interface and pointers to information on how to
> customize the behaviour are missing.
Most operations give you the command line version of what you just did
so you don't have to repeat the selections. But note that it is called
clonezilla, not 'GUI tool for disk resizing'.
--
Les Mikesell
les...@gm...
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From: Michal S. <hra...@ce...> - 2010-12-03 18:08:50
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On 3 December 2010 18:47, Les Mikesell <les...@gm...> wrote: > On 12/3/2010 11:34 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >>> I wanted an open source solution, and found clonezilla. I realized >>> early on that it is not for someone who expects a simple point-and-click >>> interface. But I read the docs and didn't have any trouble >>> understanding how to use it. >> >> In my eyes Clonezilla only caters to the simplistic point-and-click users. > > No, it really caters to the fully-automatic users that want to repeat > the same clone many times without any intervention. > >> There is no way to get control over the operations Clonezilla performs >> with the current user interface and pointers to information on how to >> customize the behaviour are missing. > > Most operations give you the command line version of what you just did > so you don't have to repeat the selections. But note that it is called > clonezilla, not 'GUI tool for disk resizing'. I did not notice the option for specifying target partition size on the generated commandline. I don't insist on using a GUI, I would appreciate automation. However, clonezilla does not even perform the task for me by manually choosing options. Thanks Michal |
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From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2010-12-07 09:39:25
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Hi Robert, On 2010/12/3 上午 05:38, Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp. wrote: > Hello > > I tried to used clonezilla. > > I found out that it did what it says it does. I didn't have to read a > doc, howto, or a manual. My images create without issue, no matter the > file system or OS I'm cloning. I've never had a restore fail. Thanks for telling us about this. It's nice to know it's straightforward to you. > > I'd love to see it restore to smaller disks/partitions, but I understand > that if I really want that, I could work to make it happen and nobody > owes it to me. As for restore to smaller disks/partitions, for the time being you can use fsarchiver, however, since it does not support pipe, we can not use it for multicast clone, that's why we do not use it. However, we have some ideas about how to use that for single machine restoring. We will try to make it in the future... But it's not the near future :) Regards, Steven. > > etc cetera ad infinitum... > > Thanks Team Clonezilla... > > - Bob Coffman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App& Earn a Chance To Win $500! > Tap into the largest installed PC base& get more eyes on your game by > optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the > Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
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From: Antonio O. <oli...@gm...> - 2010-12-07 13:02:53
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>> I'd love to see it restore to smaller disks/partitions, but I understand >> that if I really want that, I could work to make it happen and nobody >> owes it to me. > As for restore to smaller disks/partitions, for the time being you can > use fsarchiver, however, since it does not support pipe, we can not use > it for multicast clone, that's why we do not use it. However, we have > some ideas about how to use that for single machine restoring. We will > try to make it in the future... But it's not the near future :) > > Regards, > Steven. I am sure many others would like to see this being implemented within clonezilla. A friend of mine which has a computer lab at a school which I worked before had like 15 machines down. I told her to set up one the way she liked and she did. I then used Clonezilla-live to set up the rest of the machines. I had no problems with the machines that had the same disk size. However not all the machines had the same hard drive size. I still cloned the machine, but it took me a little bit longer to do it. I resized the OS to accomodate to the smaller disk. I ran scandisk + defragmenter, then used Gparted to resize the partition ran chkdsk -p[very important* clonezilla won't restore if there is a filesytem check in windows]. I tried again and it worked :) It can be done, but it takes a little bit longer. It would be awesome if clonezilla could do this by default :) , whenever there is something out there there would hopefully be more users helping in testing. I do appreciate and am thankful to have clonezilla in my arsenal of tools :) Best Regards, Antonio |
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From: Michal S. <hra...@ce...> - 2010-12-07 13:14:33
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On 7 December 2010 14:02, Antonio Olivares <oli...@gm...> wrote: >>> I'd love to see it restore to smaller disks/partitions, but I understand >>> that if I really want that, I could work to make it happen and nobody >>> owes it to me. >> As for restore to smaller disks/partitions, for the time being you can >> use fsarchiver, however, since it does not support pipe, we can not use >> it for multicast clone, that's why we do not use it. However, we have >> some ideas about how to use that for single machine restoring. We will >> try to make it in the future... But it's not the near future :) >> >> Regards, >> Steven. > > I am sure many others would like to see this being implemented within > clonezilla. A friend of mine which has a computer lab at a school > which I worked before had like 15 machines down. I told her to set up > one the way she liked and she did. I then used Clonezilla-live to set > up the rest of the machines. I had no problems with the machines that > had the same disk size. However not all the machines had the same > hard drive size. I still cloned the machine, but it took me a little > bit longer to do it. I resized the OS to accomodate to the smaller > disk. I ran scandisk + defragmenter, then used Gparted to resize the > partition ran chkdsk -p[very important* clonezilla won't restore if > there is a filesytem check in windows]. I tried again and it worked > :) It can be done, but it takes a little bit longer. It would be > awesome if clonezilla could do this by default :) , whenever there is > something out there there would hopefully be more users helping in > testing. I do appreciate and am thankful to have clonezilla in my > arsenal of tools :) I have no issues with saving and restoring resized partitions (but I do not use clonezilla for that). Still you do need to shrink the source partitions before cloning because there is no way to access the partclone images I know of. If there was a FUSE module to make the partclone image accessible as a block device you could both access the files stored in the image and possibly resize it using some md/lvm snapshot functionality in the Linux kernel. Thanks Michal |
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From: Bill G. <gu...@io...> - 2010-12-03 01:32:25
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I want to second what Bob said.... I've been using clonezilla-live for at least two years. In my shop, we use it in two main ways: We create standard builds of computer models that we frequently buy, and use those images to restore to newly purchased machines. Secondly, we do periodic backup images for various people in the department. We have an "image server" with 2TB of disk space where we store these images. We create and restore the clonezilla images over the network. Almost all of these are Windows machines, both XP and Win7. My previous experiences cloning computers was with Powerquest Drive Image, which was later bought out by Symantec and pretty much killed in favor of Ghost. I wanted an open source solution, and found clonezilla. I realized early on that it is not for someone who expects a simple point-and-click interface. But I read the docs and didn't have any trouble understanding how to use it. Clonezilla works reliably for us, and continually gets better. I greatly appreciate the work of the development team. On 12/02/2010 04:38 PM, Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp. wrote: > Hello > > I tried to used clonezilla. > > I found out that it did what it says it does. I didn't have to read a > doc, howto, or a manual. My images create without issue, no matter the > file system or OS I'm cloning. I've never had a restore fail. > > I'd love to see it restore to smaller disks/partitions, but I understand > that if I really want that, I could work to make it happen and nobody > owes it to me. > > etc cetera ad infinitum... > > Thanks Team Clonezilla... > > - Bob Coffman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App& Earn a Chance To Win $500! > Tap into the largest installed PC base& get more eyes on your game by > optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the > Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clo...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- -Bill- --------------------------------------------- Bill Gurley, Technical Director Department of Chemistry Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville --------------------------------------------- |
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From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2010-12-07 10:03:31
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Hi Bill, On 2010/12/3 上午 09:32, Bill Gurley wrote: > I want to second what Bob said.... > > I've been using clonezilla-live for at least two years. In my shop, we > use it in two main ways: We create standard builds of computer models > that we frequently buy, and use those images to restore to newly > purchased machines. > > Secondly, we do periodic backup images for various people in the department. > > We have an "image server" with 2TB of disk space where we store these > images. We create and restore the clonezilla images over the network. > Almost all of these are Windows machines, both XP and Win7. > > My previous experiences cloning computers was with Powerquest Drive > Image, which was later bought out by Symantec and pretty much killed in > favor of Ghost. > > I wanted an open source solution, and found clonezilla. I realized > early on that it is not for someone who expects a simple point-and-click > interface. But I read the docs and didn't have any trouble > understanding how to use it. > > Clonezilla works reliably for us, and continually gets better. I > greatly appreciate the work of the development team. Thanks for telling us how you use Clonezilla. We are happy to know it works for you. Steven. > > > > > On 12/02/2010 04:38 PM, Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp. wrote: >> Hello >> >> I tried to used clonezilla. >> >> I found out that it did what it says it does. I didn't have to read a >> doc, howto, or a manual. My images create without issue, no matter the >> file system or OS I'm cloning. I've never had a restore fail. >> >> I'd love to see it restore to smaller disks/partitions, but I understand >> that if I really want that, I could work to make it happen and nobody >> owes it to me. >> >> etc cetera ad infinitum... >> >> Thanks Team Clonezilla... >> >> - Bob Coffman >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App& Earn a Chance To Win $500! >> Tap into the largest installed PC base& get more eyes on your game by >> optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the >> Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Clonezilla-live mailing list >> Clo...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >> > > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A |
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From: Michal S. <hra...@ce...> - 2010-12-03 17:35:19
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On 3 December 2010 02:32, Bill Gurley <gu...@io...> wrote: > I want to second what Bob said.... > > I've been using clonezilla-live for at least two years. In my shop, we > use it in two main ways: We create standard builds of computer models > that we frequently buy, and use those images to restore to newly > purchased machines. It's good it works for you. It does not work for me. > > Secondly, we do periodic backup images for various people in the department. > > We have an "image server" with 2TB of disk space where we store these > images. We create and restore the clonezilla images over the network. > Almost all of these are Windows machines, both XP and Win7. > > My previous experiences cloning computers was with Powerquest Drive > Image, which was later bought out by Symantec and pretty much killed in > favor of Ghost. > > I wanted an open source solution, and found clonezilla. I realized > early on that it is not for someone who expects a simple point-and-click > interface. But I read the docs and didn't have any trouble > understanding how to use it. In my eyes Clonezilla only caters to the simplistic point-and-click users. There is no way to get control over the operations Clonezilla performs with the current user interface and pointers to information on how to customize the behaviour are missing. The "source" is just a dump of random files. I can get equally useful dump by downloading a random live CD geared towards disk backups and picking files from it. Thanks Michal |
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