Clonezilla does not support software raid yet. That's why it failed there. To support software RAID is another story... Maybe we will try to add this function in the future.
Steven. eric rosel wrote: > Hi List, > > Sorry if this question has been asked before, we are unable to search the > list archives. Apologies for the long post. > > We're using clonezilla-1.1.0-8 on Centos5 with the following filesystems: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/md0 5080728 1729984 3088488 36% / > /dev/md1 893093512 413656 846581388 1% /vz > > and /dev/md2 is used as swap. > > These are made up of 4 x 320GB disks (sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd), on top of > which we have configured with Software RAID as: > > ==========<snip>========== > /dev/md0: > Raid Level : raid1 > Array Size : 5245120 (5.00 GiB 5.37 GB) > Raid Devices : 2 > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 > 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > /dev/md1: > Raid Level : raid5 > Array Size : 921969408 (879.26 GiB 944.10 GB) > Raid Devices : 4 > Layout : left-symmetric > Chunk Size : 256K > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2 > 1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 > 2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 > 3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > /dev/md2: > Raid Level : raid1 > Array Size : 5245120 (5.00 GiB 5.37 GB) > Raid Devices : 2 > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1 > 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 > ==========<snip>========== > > > We are trying to save images of the 4 disks. When we ran Clonezilla, it was > able to successfully (AFAIK) save an image of sda1, but it encountered an > error when it tried to save an image of sda2: > > ==========<snip>========== > Checking file system integrity in /dev/sda2... done! > Use lzop to compress the image. > Split image file with size limit 2000MB > *****************************************************. > Volume size: 0 bytes (0 MiB) > partimage: status: initializing the operation. > partimage: status: Partimage: 0.6.1 > partimage: status: Image type: NONE > partimage: status: Saving partition to the image file... > partimage: status: reading partition properties > There was an error while reading the bitmap. > > partimage: status: commiting buffer cache to disk. > ==========<snip>========== > > It then goes on to save images of sdb1 and sdb2, but we had to cancel since > it was saving over ssh and was taking a really long time to finish. > > We connected an external USB drive and tried again. It encountered the same > error on the same partition. It's now saving sdb2 and we're still waiting > for it to finish. > > Any hints as to why it's not able to save sda2 ? > We'll be happy to send more info about our setup, if anyone needs it. > > TIA, > -eric > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
