[Partclone-user] How to create a mountable image

[detlef o. <d.o...@ui...>]

Hello,

thanks for this wonderful product.

I try to create a product which creates an image of a partition and gives two different ways to restore:
1. copy the whole image back
2. remove all changes by an unidirectional rsync between the saved image and the productive partition.

Point 1. is easy. The problem is Point 2.

If I use 'partclone.ntfs --clone ' I get an image which can not be mounted in a usual way. It can be mounted using the
partclone-utils via
imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f myimage.img -m /mnt -r -t ntfs
but in this mounted image all ntfs access informations are lost (for example symbolic links to directories you will see
as real directories)

If I use 'partclone.ntfs -b -s /dev/sda1 -O myimage.img' I get an mountable image with the correct ntfs informations and
this image is only a little bit larger than the '--clone' version.
But if I try to restore such an image with partclone.restore it proceeds until 99.88 % and than stops with an IO error.
As far I could see the restore transfer rate was only about 0,9 GB/min and from the '--clone' image about 1.9 GB/min.

Using ntfsclone leads to mountable images which have the same size than copied file system and contain all empty spaces.

So my question is:
Did I miss something ?
Is there any way to get a small read only mountable image with a fast restore ?

Thanks for any help

d.oertel

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