No restore option with Clonezilla

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I used Clonezilla to back up the image of a disk on a Dell Inspiron PC on which I had installed Debian 7.0. I saved the images to a 2 TB Western Digital MyBook. Everything appeared to work fine. Now I would like to restore the disk. I follow the instructions here but, after choosing "Beginner Mode", I get to the screen where I should be able to choose "Restore Disk" but the only options are:

Save disk
Save parts
Exit

I can see the WD MyBook when I am running Clonezilla and I choose that as the source of the image. I also followed the solution posted here and set up the directory structure on the MyBook as follows.

C:/MyBook/AppServerCloneZilla/2014-06-09-00-imgAppServer

2014-06-09-00-imgAppServer contains the clonezilla-img list file. It doesn't matter whether I choose the top directory of the MyBook or I choose /CloneZillaBackup/, I only get the 3 options listed above. I never get the option to "Restore Disk".

OtagoHarbour

Posted 2014-07-20T16:55:40.260

Reputation: 227

1Did it actually create an image file on your backup disk? You should have a large .gz file that is the image taken... I'm guessing that if it can't find any images then it won't offer the option to restore... – Kinnectus – 2014-07-20T16:59:16.777

There are .gz files in 2014-06-09-00-imgAppServer. I am currently looking at the files on a Windows system and it includes files with names like sda1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa and sda1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.ab. Thanks, – OtagoHarbour – 2014-07-20T17:03:47.423

I don't think it created all the necessary files so that's why it's not offering the restore. Ref.: https://www.mail-archive.com/clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01141.html

– Kinnectus – 2014-07-20T17:30:01.470

Thank you for your comments. It inspired me to make the directory, containing the files, accessible so that I could choose it directly. I thus solved a problem in about half an hour after wrestling with it unsuccessfully for several. – OtagoHarbour – 2014-07-20T17:44:34.353

Answers

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OK. It appears I have solved the problem. It seems that Clonezilla doesn't like too many subdirectories. I moved 2014-06-09-00-imgAppServer up to the same level as AppServerCloneZilla. That is

C:/MyBook/2014-06-09-00-imgAppServer

Now I have the restore option.

OtagoHarbour

Posted 2014-07-20T16:55:40.260

Reputation: 227

+1 Good to know as the docs don't say this could be a problem. – Kinnectus – 2014-07-20T18:00:32.403

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After creating the image I had changed the directory name to something I liked. But then clonezilla did not recognize the directory as image. So I changed the name so that it end with -img (to make it look like original one) and supplied the parent directory as image source. That helped.

Jarekczek

Posted 2014-07-20T16:55:40.260

Reputation: 161

Asked: 2014-07-20T16:55:40.260

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