'User friendly' way to recover individual files from a Clonezilla archive
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I use Clonezilla because it is free and seems very capable. I recently had an incident where I lost a subset of files from a critical disk and didn't wish to restore the entire backup. I learned that it is quite unfriendly to try and restore individual files from the archive and in the end I gave up due to pressure of time, equipment (other machines and disks) and lack of certainty that what I was doing was not going to destroy the rest of the data.
It would be very good for users like me if there was a tool or a way to in a more friendly/guided way help the poor user in such a situation to recover individual files from their data. I realize it might be well out of scope for the Clonezilla creators but it seems like a worthwhile project nonetheless.
Clonezilla (or actually the file system engine Partclone) is a block-based program. It's not based on the files. It only knows the used blocks on the file system. Hence it's a great challenge.
BTW, there is a program called partclone-utils which can mount the image, then you can copy the files. However, it's only working for old format of Partclone...
Steven