Jean-Pierre, thank you for your analysis. Yes and unfortunately, the partition on my backup disk is formatted as vfat in order to make it accessible from Windows and from Linux. fsarchiver did not encounter such problems since it always splits its result files in pieces of at most 2.1GB.
A year ago I made an image of my Windows-10-partition using fsarchiver. (Fortunately I never needed to backup from it.) This image consisted of 7 files, 14.4GB altogether. fsarchiver could make this image, unlike now with the current state of Windows-10 where it stumbles upon some strange files and directories which ntfs-3g does not cope with. Unfortunately I have not seen an option of ntfsclone to split its output into a bunch of files with consecutive numbers, similar to the way fsarchiver does it. I have heard about a command split. Would it work to pipe the output like this sudo ntfsclone --save-image --output - /dev/sda2| split -b 2G - W530_sda2_Windows-10-System_2019-09-24.ntfsclone *Would this be the right command for that purpose?* (I have never used split before and of course I want to be sure that the created image really works) Kind regards Adalbert Hanßen Am 24.09.19 um 14:03 schrieb Jean-Pierre André: > Adalbert Hanßen wrote: >> >> I want to replace my hard disk by a SSD and therefore I want to clone the >> Windows-10 partition of my double boot computer using ntfsclone. >> >> I tried to do so, basically using the command >> >> sudo ntfsclone --save-image --output >> W530_sda2_Windows-10-System_2019-09-24.ntfsclone /dev/sda2 >> >> I encounter these messages >> >> ntfsclone v2015.3.14AR.1 (libntfs-3g) >> NTFS volume version: 3.1 >> Cluster size : 4096 bytes >> Current volume size: 104857595904 bytes (104858 MB) >> Current device size: 104857600000 bytes (104858 MB) >> Scanning volume ... >> 100.00 percent completed >> Accounting clusters ... >> Space in use : 36123 MB (34,4%) >> Saving NTFS to image ... >> 100.00 percent completed >> Syncing ... >> ERROR(27): fflush: Die Datei ist zu groß >> >> >> After it, there is a file >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 v v 4294967295 2019-09-24 09:58 >> W530_sda2_Windows-10-System_2019-09-24.ntfsclone >> >> Does this file really contain an image on which I might rely? >> > > Probably not. The output appears to be stuck at 4GB, > you probably used an output file system which is limited > to 4GB, such as vfat. > > >> What is wrong here? >> > > The expected output size is around 36GB, and you need > an output file system which supports such size. This means > virtually anything except vfat. > > >> How to proceed? >> > > If you are storing into a USB key (factory formatted as vfat), > reformat it as ntfs (or ext4, etc.). > > You can also reduce the output size by compressing the output, > however as most Windows 10 system files are already > compressed, the compression rate will not get under 50%. > > sudo ntfsclone --save-image --output - /dev/sda2 | gzip > sda2.clone.gz > > As you target restoring to a SSD, remember to partition > the SSD with the same size as the original (204800000 sectors) > > Jean-Pierre > > >> Kind regards >> >> Adalbert Hanßen >> >> > > > >
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