[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.