Re: [Clonezilla-live] Multipart savedisk wont restore

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

Christopher Boyce wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an issue with a multipart save disk that I have unable to
> restore and was wondering if the DRBL/Clonezilla community can help.
> An image has been taken using Clonezilla, via DRBL, with the q2 option
> and to use dd. When it came to the save disk option for multiple
> volume files was used and 2000 set. Now I have 31 dd-img files with
> the suffix aa-be plus a number of smaller files. When I try to do a
> restore the folder these files are found in is not listed. I’ve
> attempted to put the img files together with cat using information
> found on the forums and documentation with no success. Using the
> command file ./had1.dd-img.aa tells me it is a gzip archive but when I
> do the same on hda2.dd-img-ab it says data. Is there anyway I can get
> these files back together to do a restore?
>
I believe there is no gzip headers in hda2.dd-img.ab, since hda2.dd-img
is gzipped then split. You can:
cat dir/hda2.dd-img.* | gzip -d -c > hda2.dd
to get the original raw partition data.

Steven.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> [@fed SXJXC-Copy]# ls -l
>
> total 59628844
>
> hda1.dd-img.aa
>
> hda2.dd-img.ab
>
> hda2.dd-img.ac
>
> hda2.dd-img.ad
>
> hda2.dd-img.ae
>
> hda2.dd-img.af
>
> hda2.dd-img.ag
>
> hda2.dd-img.ah
>
> hda2.dd-img.ai
>
> hda2.dd-img.aj
>
> hda2.dd-img.ak
>
> hda2.dd-img.al
>
> hda2.dd-img.am
>
> hda2.dd-img.an
>
> hda2.dd-img.ao
>
> hda2.dd-img.ap
>
> hda2.dd-img.aq
>
> hda2.dd-img.ar
>
> hda2.dd-img.as
>
> hda2.dd-img.at
>
> hda2.dd-img.au
>
> hda2.dd-img.av
>
> hda2.dd-img.aw
>
> hda2.dd-img.ax
>
> hda2.dd-img.ay
>
> hda2.dd-img.az
>
> hda2.dd-img.ba
>
> hda2.dd-img.bb
>
> hda2.dd-img.bc
>
> hda2.dd-img.bd
>
> hda2.dd-img.be
>
> 0 2010-02-10 10:31 hda2-size
>
> 37 2009-12-08 13:42 hda-chs.sf
>
> 31744 2009-12-08 13:42 hda-hidden-data-after-mbr
>
> 512 2010-02-10 10:52 hda-mbr
>
> 329 2009-12-08 13:42 hda-pt.parted
>
> 259 2009-12-08 13:42 hda-pt.sf
>
> Some reference links used
>
> http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/68_manually_partclone_restore.faq#68_manually_partclone_restore.faq
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/394751/topic/3260187
>
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