Clonezilla ошибка при восстановлении образа

In the Clonezilla Select Mode box, for some reason I do not have any restore options. All I have to choose from are
savedisk
saveparts
exit

Clonezilla recognises my USB drive which has the image on it and indeed seemed to have no problem in making the image in the first place but for some reason no matter which option I choose, Beginner,Expert etc I never get a restore option in the select box.

I have tried two different USB keys prepared with unetbootin which my laptop will not boot from, two CD’s and downloaded the ISO twice. My laptop (IBM T42) has booted successfully from a USB key in the past.

Does this mean that my image is not correct/damaged in some way or am I missing something completely simple?

I’m using Clonezilla Live on a CD and USB key.

Thanks for any and all advice.

If there is no any image in the dir /home/partimag/, the Clonezilla wizard will only show save-related menus. Therefore please make sure you have previous saved image in /home/partimage/.

Steven.

Hello Steven,

I have the exact same problem.  I do not understand your response.  I saved the image to an NTFS formated USB drive.  Clonezilla fails to find the image every time.

There is no «\home\partimag\» directory on the NTFS USB drive.  Was Clonzilla supposed to make this directory?  should I put the image file in a directory called home>partimag?

Pleas help me — I relied on this software to save my data and the restore isn’t working.

Thanks,
Andor

Well, I’ve read through the documentation and I can’t understand it — it reads as though it was written by a retard — total gibberish, and the step by step is also useless.  Very disappointing software, very poor documentation, more like a toy than actual software.

Perhaps someone who can understand English can write in lay terms about the /home/partimag part, because it absolutely NO SENSE AT ALL.

I’ve made a clone of my HDD from a Linux system and saved it on a USB drive (formatted  as NTFS).

Running clonezilla liveCD, can’t find «\home\partimag».  Of course it can’t find «\home\partimag», it on an NTFS drive.  I can see the image and all the files in the image directory, but I can’t restore.  Can’t figure out how to troubleshoot as the documentation sucks.

I’m having the same problem restoring from a usb hdd.

After many attempts and reboots I was finally able to create the image of my partition to an ntfs format usb hdd. The problems lay in getting my usb drive identified by Clonezilla. Booting with the usb drive connected did not seem to work and plugging it after the «Use local device» seemed to be the answer.

Now I cannot get the menu to save or restore. The program goes straight to save and I think the issue must be that the program is not seeing the usb drive. I’ve been through multiple reboots trying to get the usb drive recognized. Sometimes I can see the usb drive in the text that flashes on the screen, but I can’t highlight it to get it into the menus. Any suggestions on how and exactly where in the process to try this would be appreciated. This computer has an internal 3.5″ usb card reader installed and perhaps this is confusing the program during initial hardware mounting. I’d really rather avoid unplugging the connections to this device if I can. I’ve read the pdf and perhaps the problem is the filename of the restore image on the ntfs usb drive not being recognized. Should I be trying command line instead, and if so, can someone point me to detailed instructions on doing the restore by command line from a usb hdd?

Update: partial success

Booting with the usb hdd connected and powered resulted in a boot failure every time. I could see the drive being recognized by vm linuz as it configured hardware, but as soon as it got to starting the Clonezilla program I would get a boot failure. But connecting the already powered usb hdd immediately after Clonezilla began and before it got to the menu choices did get the usb hdd recognized and brought up the menu to restore. It’s restoring now.

However the reason for the «partial» above is that I suspect it’s restoring to the original problem I was trying to solve. I had two partitions I was trying to merge to make a larger partition for an XP OS. All the menu choices showed the correct larger 66G partition, but once the restore began it showed the original 32G partition. But that’s fodder for a different thread, so I won’t elaborate further here.

Just to go over the points I brought up previously, the filename of the restore image was okay, no spaces. The usb card reader was not a problem. The answer is to power your usb hdd, but leave the cable unconnected. I did it at the device end rather than at the computer for convenience. As vm linuz is configuring hardware (white text lines on a black screen) just wait. When the Clonezilla program begins (colour screen and the language and keyboard choices) then plug in your usb hdd cable.

Hope this helps someone else and this would be good info to put into the FAQ or even better, into the screenshots page.

Hello,

The reference card is much, much better.

So…my main question still stands.  Where is «/home/partimag»? 

Are you saying that the clone, has to be on a ext4 formatted disc under a directory like «C:\home\partimag» ?

I don’t understand.

Hi Andorjkiss,

«/home/partimag» is a pointer for Clonezilla internals, nothing else.

So, let’s go from scratch here.

• Clonezilla stores images into directories, which are given the name you enter at image creation time.

• Clonezilla supports a bunch of filesystems, among which NTFS and ext4. Thus the external device used for storage can hold any of those filesystems. Clonezilla will handle that.

• When you image a disk or partition to an external device (eg. USB thumbdrive), the device directory in which you decide to store the image *is* known by Clonezilla as /home/partimag. The image itself is stored into a sub-directory of that.

eg: you have a NTFS-formatted thumbdrive you want to use for image storage (note: you’ll need as much free room on that device as necessary for the image, but your thumbdrive may hold other data)
In Clonezilla, you select the root of that device at the «/home/partimag» choice step
if you entered the image name «mydrive» at the image name step, you’ll end up with a \mydrive dir holding all the stuff making a Clonezilla image.
Now, Clonezilla knows that \mydrive dir as the alias /home/partimag/mydrive.

When restoring, using the menus you’ll select the same device containing the previously saved image. This is the «/home/partimag» thing. Now, selecting the image dir, Clonezilla will know it as /home/partimag/mydrive for the session duration.

IOW, you have not to take care of any «/home/partimag» thingy yourself, this is Clonezilla internals. Just select a storage device, then enter the name you want for the image when creating it and Clonezilla will create a directory with the same name on the device you selected.

Hopefully this is clearer. Feel free to ask again if my words remain mysterious.

Best regards from France,

JF Nifenecker, Bordeaux

@JF Nifenecker

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!  OMG, finally a salient explanation.  I really wish the above explanation was somewhere in the documentation — I’ve been using Linux (Ubuntu) for about five years and could not make heads nor tails of the «/home/partimag» reference.  Understanding that this is an internal reference for Clonezilla make much more sense. Maybe the above explanation can be put into the card and/or the screen-shots guide?

Anyway, I’m still at a loss to understand why my restore completely failed (I luckily backed up somewhere else using DejaDup).  Here’s what I did:

1)  Make Clonezilla ISO CD Image ( 1.2.11-23-i686-pae ).
2)  Boot Clonezilla with external HDD attached and powered.
3)  Choose a directory on the NTFS formatted external HDD (sdb) as the image respository (F:\Clonezilla\) .
4)  Instruct Clonezilla to make the image and check it for «ability to restore».  No errors.
5)  Do something stupid, like try to remove home directory encryption from my home directory and completely bugger my install.
6)  Insert same Clonezilla CD and boot from it (HDD atttached and powered on)
7)   Choose external HDD (sdb) as image repository, choose F:\Clonezilla\ as my directory where images are stored.
  NO RESTORE OPTION.  ERROR: «There is no image in \home\partimag\.  Clonezilla will now exit»

What do you think went wrong?

Thanks

Ok, so now I understand.  That’s what I did and it failed — luckily I

Hi,

so you chose sdb as /home/partimag. OK.

It still is not clear to me what you did at step 3. Where’s the \Clonezilla name coming from? Image name? If so, it should work. Otherwise, could you be more specific, please?

Amyway, I always select the device root as image repository. Though Clonezilla can handle subdirs as image repos, the process should be much easier, I think.

So,taking your example, here’s what would work (skipping correct steps):
3. Select sdb as /home/partimag
4. Give a meaningful name to the image and process as you did
-> now you should have a F:\(image name here) directory with plenty of data within.
7. see 3.
8. Restore options are back.

Be aware that if you save a partition, you won’t get the disk restore options, of course (and vice-versa).

HTH,

JF Nifenecker, Bordeaux

Hi,

I created the Clonezilla directory from within ubuntu before starting the whole process.  I’ll try it from the root (F:\) this time and see if I get the restore options and post back

Thanks,
Andor

Hi,

  Okay — it works — I get all the restore options (haven’t actually tried to restore, but the issue of not finding the image is now solved.  There are quite a few «other» files in the image directory that were not in the last image directory when I had issues.  Maybe the image was not created correctly??

  Seems to be working now — sorry for heated words — was really frustrating.

  Question:  Can one copy the image to another location by simply copying the image directory?

Cheers & Happy New Year,
Andor

Hi again  Andorjkiss,

glad to hear good news! No problem for the wording. We’ve all been there and done that once in a while, no worry.

As for your copy question: no problem, the image directory (as a whole) can be copied anywhere (on a CD/DVD for instance) from where you might restore it in the future. At backup time, Clonezilla doesn’t write any information specific to the backup target.

All the best and a very happy NewYear to you as well,

JF Nifenecker, Bordeaux