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In some cases useful info is found in syslog – tryĮXT4-fs (loop0): bad geometry: block count 28304104 exceeds size of device (28303360 blocks) Missing codepage or helper program, or other error Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /mydir/myimage.img, $ sudo mount -t ext4 /mydir/myimage.img /mnt/backup I have tried your procedure and had an error while mounti the image: Imaged my server a while ago before a reinstall but forgot it was unbrowsable -_-‘Ĭomment by Souheil - 21. Try my Open Source PHP visitor analytics script CrazyStat.

If you get a bad feeling thinking about this, you should make a backup now. Think about what pain it would be if the drive of your laptop / desktop would crash just right now. P.S.: It’s always good to have a (recent) backup 😉 One drive of mine just crashed after about two years in operation, so I know what I am talking about… Thanks a lot to all posters of the forum mentioned above for these hints, especially bfitzhugh, nutria007, ttguy and gaebriel! Sudo mount -o loop -t ext3 /dir-to-new-image/partition.img /mnt There are other commands in the forum thread for NTFS images and other compression formats. This will take some time, dependent on how big the image and how fast your drive(s). I overlooked it when I tried this first.) | sudo partclone.restore -C -s -O /dir-to-new-image/partition.img

Convert the clonezilla-image into the img-file:.

You should have at least as much free disk space as the size of the image there.

Prepare an img-file somewhere where enough free disk space is available:.

Install partclone (sudo apt-get install partclone).

In my case, the file was compressed using gzip and it was an image of a linux partition (ext3). Here I’d like to show you what worked for me. In the forum post linked above several different commands are discussed depending on your image file. The basic approach is to convert the whole image into a (probably huge) img-file that can be easily mounted. You can only restore complete partitions or drives.īut there is a way around this, which is discussed in this forum thread, although not perfect as it requires lots of time and disk space as well. One important feature that Clonezilla does not offer out of the box is browsing images to restore single files. Windows 7 has also built-in backup and imaging tools, which you can give a try. It is really free software (open source), which means it is also free to use for commercial purposes.īy the way, if you want to backup/restore images of Windows partitions/drives, I’d also recommend DriveImage XML which is also very powerful yet simple (only free for private use). If you do not know it, you should really give it a try.

It is very powerful, can handle both Linux and Windows partitions and so on. Clonezilla is a fine tool to backup/restore/clone partitions or drives.