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degmic71

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 122

Restoring just a few files from a clone zilla image on Arch Linux?

I know it is possible to loop mount the compressed image, but I am having a ton of bad luck. So far I have tried:

cat sda4.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.a* | gzip -d -c | partclone.restore -C -s - -o sda4.img  

But, I keep getting:

cat sda4.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.a* | gzip -d -c | partclone.restore -C -s - -o sda4.img  
Partclone v0.2.69 http://partclone.org
Starting to restore image (-) to device (sda4.img)
device (sda4.img) is mounted at 
error exit
Partclone fail, please check /var/log/partclone.log !

Yes, I did even made sure I have space, but the "error" is so non-descript. Please help super reddit LAS users! Also.....if anyone of you have a better imaging solution (entire disk) of a non-running system, please let me know.

-pk

-pk

Last edited by degmic71 (2014-04-12 19:55:01)

r2b2

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Registered: 2013-08-12

Posts: 14

Re: Restoring just a few files from a clone zilla image on Arch Linux?

This is a pretty late reply but for others in the same position, the step you are probably missing (as I spent the last half hour trying to work it out given I missed the step myself), is to make sure you create the destination file first using something like:

touch sda4.img

first.