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.