Re: [Clonezilla-live] Using a different PC to backup a drive.

[Michael M. <mi...@hi...>]

Jarno:

AFAIK, those files are convenience items at best.

The image you created is of the original disk, and will restore to another disk that is prepared for that notebook computer. Clonezilla does not (cannot) use the info-lspci.txt to configure anything. When the image is restored to a target disk, the drivers and devices are restored, and then discovered during the normal boot process, and so even if the contents of info-lspci.txt did not match the target system, you'd still be able to restore the disk.

In my experience, you can restore one notebook computer's image to another notebook computer - even if the devices and motherboards don't match - because the data is restored, and Linux "configures itself" on boot.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jarno Suni [mailto:jar...@gm...] 
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 9:08 AM
To: clo...@li...
Subject: [Clonezilla-live] Using a different PC to backup a drive.

I took a notebook drive that has windows 7 installed away from the notebook, connected the drive to a desktop PC which I booted by Clonezilla live, made a backup image (directory) of the notebook disk and stored it to another HDD connected to the desktop PC. Now the image folder has some desktop PC specific information in files such as Info-lspci.txt and blkid.list. Why is that? Are the used in the restoration process? Can you still use the image directory to restore the system for the notebook? Do you have to do the restoring by the same PC?


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