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| From | Axel <none@not.here> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux.mint |
| Subject | Re: Making a hard drive image |
| Date | 2026-05-04 11:48 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <n5qc6jFcc4aU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <n5nvjdFs3gU1@mid.individual.net> <n5q5rnFbcjaU1@mid.individual.net> <10t8on2$39vru$1@dont-email.me> |
Paul wrote: > 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. it did. I was copying the LM disk from a machine with UEFI bios, and trying to use the copy in a PC with legacy bios. so booting was the problem. (see my latest post) > > Paul -- Linux Mint 22.3
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