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From: Michael L. <ml...@lu...> - 2010-06-29 21:05:22
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Greetings- ** Note: Previously I sent this question to the email addy found on the ntfsclone man page that was listed to report problems to, which goes to the -dev list. Trying on -user as I have not received a response on -dev. I have been working with ntfsclone and ntfs-3g for several versions of Ubuntu now. Recently with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) or 10.04 (Lucid) I encountered that I needed to erase the NTFS partition in order to get a successful restore of the image. (I think the machine was still running 9.10 when I encountered the following error, though I have since upgraded the machine to 10.04) Specifically why I discovered it, I have made several snapshots of a Windows XP partition. I was trying to find the last backup BEFORE I joined our Samba PDC domain. I would restore the image, reboot into XP, and was waiting to see the "Welcome" screen rather than the C-A-D screen indicating the workstation image had been joined to the domain. Not until I added the wipe of the partition did the restore work properly. I restored a given image, rebooted, still the C-A-D screen. Puzzled why I could only find images taken joined to the domain, I added an erase of the partition, and restored the same image. THEN I rebooted and got the "Welcome" screen I was expecting to see. Below is the restore script I am talking about: #!/bin/bash echo "Erasing the Windows partition" /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 echo "Loading the Windows partition" /bin/gunzip -c 20100409-171431-PackingConfig.cdrive.img.gz | /usr/sbin/ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/sda1 - The syntax looks about the same as the man page for ntfsclone indicates to use. I find no mention that the partition must be blank in order to get a good restore. Any clues why the erase would be needed? Sincerely, -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/ |
