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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux.mint |
| Subject | Re: Making a hard drive image |
| Date | 2026-05-03 20:19 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10t8on2$39vru$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <n5nvjdFs3gU1@mid.individual.net> <n5q5rnFbcjaU1@mid.individual.net> |
On Sun, 5/3/2026 7:59 PM, Axel wrote:
> Axel wrote:
>>
>> I want a full back up of my 500Gb NVME disk. I tried Foxclone, but I found that the image can only be written back to the original drive, which pretty much negates it's usefulness. I want an image of the NVME drive I can use on any disk to create a working drive. I tried the Disks app, and discovered it doesn't compress the image, and since the image created is a bit over 500 Gb, I can only write it to a drive larger than 500Gb. (sigh) I think the problem is that the NVME drive is actually a fraction over 500Gb, since if I try to clone it to a 500Gb drive I get a message that the receptor drive is too small. I was told I can reduce the partition on the NVME drive to make a smaller image, but I'm afraid to do that in case I lose data. I will try Rescuezilla, but if that doesn't compress the image there's no gain from that. Does anyone have any better suggestions for what I can do? thanks to all. :)
>>
>
> thanks for all replies, I will investigate them. for now, this is what I have done. successfully created an image of the NVME using rescuezilla. successfully wrote that to a 500Gb SSD, but it won't boot. Disks shows there are no files in the main partition: https://auslink.info/linux/copy.png
> this is the nvme i copied from: https://auslink.info/linux/nvme.png
> ???
>
Directory: 2026-05-03-1942-img-rescuezilla # This is a backup of a 200GB LLM223 UEFI/GPT install
# sda1 = ESP, sda2 = main ext4, sda3 = swap
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 233 blkdev.list
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 632 blkid.list
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:45 PM 51220 clonezilla-img
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 198 dev-fs.list
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 4 disk
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 1894 Info-dmi.txt
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:45 PM 235 Info-img-id.txt
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 14682 Info-lshw.txt
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 1288 Info-lspci.txt
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 912 Info-OS-prober.txt
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 182 Info-packages.txt
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 868 Info-smart.txt
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 11 parts
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 37 sda-chs.sf
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 17408 sda-gpt-1st
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 16384 sda-gpt-2nd
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 17920 sda-gpt.gdisk
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 676 sda-gpt.sgdisk
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 512 sda-mbr
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 392 sda-pt.parted
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 351 sda-pt.parted.compact
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 549 sda-pt.sf
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:43 PM 7118216 sda1.vfat-ptcl-img.uncomp.aa
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:44 PM 4000000000 sda2.ext4-ptcl-img.uncomp.aa
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:44 PM 4000000000 sda2.ext4-ptcl-img.uncomp.ab
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:44 PM 762122082 sda2.ext4-ptcl-img.uncomp.ac
-a---- Sun, 5, 3, 2026 3:45 PM 53 swappt-sda3.info
The swap info file says:
UUID="d87e9ab3-7db2-4bfd-87ae-016f1a3fd208"
LABEL=""
so no space is used backing up swap.
Does your backup resemble that ? The sda2.ext4-ptcl files are PartClone files so
only the used portion of the partition is stored in there. I specifically turned
off compression, as I was expecting to be able to use Image Explorer.
*******
For any data-full partitions, you can use the fsarchiver program to back
up the partitions. If RescueZilla seems incapable of populating your main
partition properly, you can overwrite your main partition with an fsarchiver run.
I was hoping to build my own backup solution, if I could find a "skeletal" backup function
for the non-partition parts. The sda-mbr file, the sda-gpt-1st and sda-gpt-2nd files, are
items to be restored via "dd". Booting is via sda1.vfat-ptcl (which is the ESP partition).
Those would all be examples of skeletal bits. Macrium would have backed up my SWAP
as a 2GB "dd" file, whereas RescueZilla just creates a new SWAP using the appropriate
GPT GUID-type for the job. And maybe a mkswap for the filesystem part.
If the main partition part does not work, you can attempt to use fsarchiver in its
place (to fill the partition manually after RescueZilla is "finished").
At this point, it's all experiments. The RescueZilla really should have worked.
Paul
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