So I am taking a backup (image) of a 500 GB SSD to an HDD. I ran Rescuezilla, selecting all partitions, and it did everything until sda6. It had an error which said that it was unable to unmount sda6 because it was busy. Why would it be busy?
So I want to know if it is possible to make a backup of sda6 to sda8, and then merge that with the backup of sda1 through sda5, making a complete backup of sda, and if it is, how to. In case it isn't, I want to know how I can have the sda6 - sda8 backup restore itself after the first backup, because I do NOT want to make another backup again, at least without the guarantee that it will work this time.
Also sda7 only has 1.26 GiB used with 1.36 GiB size, and sda8 is the Windows Recovery partition (10 MiB used, size 499 MiB). The main thing is sda6, which has a size of 233.27 GiB, and 228.27 GiB used. Also the image currently created (sda1 - sda5), is 143 GiB.
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It had an error which said that it was unable to unmount sda6 because it was busy. Why would it be busy?
Sorry for the bad experience you've had here. The partition sda6 being busy and causing the backup to report a failure is a bug in Rescuezilla.
It's busy possibly because an earlier step with Rescuezilla (such as disk scanning) may have not completely released access to it.
It's possible that running the backup again will not hit the 'busy' error, but I can't guarantee it.
So I want to know if it is possible to make a backup of sda6 to sda8, and then merge that with the backup of sda1 through sda5, making a complete backup of sda, and if it is, how to
Merging the backup is technically possible, but not easily -- it would require editing at least one short text file. There's
In case it isn't, I want to know how I can have the sda6 - sda8 backup restore itself after the first backup
This should work. You can select the specific partitions to backup when using Rescuezilla.
When you restore, there's the choice of whether two 'overwrite partition table'. In this case it shouldn't be a big deal to overwrite the partition table on both restores, because the partition table hasn't changed.
Many people use Rescuezilla (and Clonezilla) to selectively backup and restore individual partitions to achieve their goals.
I personally prefer to have a backup of all partitions created at the same time, because it's an easy way to guarantee everything is consistent. Because the risk is if you take backup images of subsets of partitions at different times it's possible the contents of sda6-sda8 may reference things in sda1-sda5 which may have changed (or vice versa). This is a low-risk, and you should be fine.
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2025-05-08
Thanks for the reply, and sorry for taking long to reply.
I'll probably just delete the backup and make it again though, because there's a pretty low chance it'll fail again. If it failed again, I'll come back and I suppose we can work something out.
Thanks again!
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So I am taking a backup (image) of a 500 GB SSD to an HDD. I ran Rescuezilla, selecting all partitions, and it did everything until sda6. It had an error which said that it was unable to unmount sda6 because it was busy. Why would it be busy?
So I want to know if it is possible to make a backup of sda6 to sda8, and then merge that with the backup of sda1 through sda5, making a complete backup of sda, and if it is, how to. In case it isn't, I want to know how I can have the sda6 - sda8 backup restore itself after the first backup, because I do NOT want to make another backup again, at least without the guarantee that it will work this time.
Also sda7 only has 1.26 GiB used with 1.36 GiB size, and sda8 is the Windows Recovery partition (10 MiB used, size 499 MiB). The main thing is sda6, which has a size of 233.27 GiB, and 228.27 GiB used. Also the image currently created (sda1 - sda5), is 143 GiB.
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Sorry for the bad experience you've had here. The partition
sda6being busy and causing the backup to report a failure is a bug in Rescuezilla.It's busy possibly because an earlier step with Rescuezilla (such as disk scanning) may have not completely released access to it.
It's possible that running the backup again will not hit the 'busy' error, but I can't guarantee it.
Merging the backup is technically possible, but not easily -- it would require editing at least one short text file. There's
This should work. You can select the specific partitions to backup when using Rescuezilla.
When you restore, there's the choice of whether two 'overwrite partition table'. In this case it shouldn't be a big deal to overwrite the partition table on both restores, because the partition table hasn't changed.
Many people use Rescuezilla (and Clonezilla) to selectively backup and restore individual partitions to achieve their goals.
I personally prefer to have a backup of all partitions created at the same time, because it's an easy way to guarantee everything is consistent. Because the risk is if you take backup images of subsets of partitions at different times it's possible the contents of sda6-sda8 may reference things in sda1-sda5 which may have changed (or vice versa). This is a low-risk, and you should be fine.
Thanks for the reply, and sorry for taking long to reply.
I'll probably just delete the backup and make it again though, because there's a pretty low chance it'll fail again. If it failed again, I'll come back and I suppose we can work something out.
Thanks again!