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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