In doing the partimage it is very important to run an fsck before doing partimage otherwise partimage will bomb out if its not clean from the first part.
[root@server1 ~]# fsck -y /dev/sdd1 fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) /boot: recovering journal /boot: clean, 35/28112 files, 16972/112420 blocks [root@server1 ~]# fsck -y /dev/sdd3 fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) /: recovering journal Clearing orphaned inode 4325389 (uid=0, gid=0, mode=0100600, size=33554432) /: clean, 125751/4980736 files, 2377162/4954044 blocks
Running the Partimage
– Image creation
[root@server1 ~]# partimage -B=0 -cod -f3 save /dev/sda1 /home/burnz/parted-images/serverdisk.part1 partimage: status: initializing the operation. partimage: status: Saving partition to the image file... partimage: status: reading partition properties partimage: status: writing header partimage: status: copying used data blocks partimage: status: commiting buffer cache to disk. [root@server1 ~]# partimage -B=0 -cod -f3 save /dev/sda3 /home/burnz/parted-images/serverdisk.part3 partimage: status: initializing the operation. partimage: status: Saving partition to the image file... partimage: status: reading partition properties partimage: status: writing header partimage: status: copying used data blocks partimage: status: commiting buffer cache to disk. # to check the content: [root@server1 ~]# ls -l /home/burnz/parted-images/ total 3069888 -rw------- 1 root root 7095846 Dec 3 02:25 serverdisk.part1.000 -rw------- 1 root root 2136738512 Dec 3 02:31 serverdisk.part3.000 -rw------- 1 root root 996641576 Dec 3 02:36 serverdisk.part3.001
OR
partimage -B=0 -z0 -cod -V0 -M save /dev/sdd2 part2.img partimage -B=0 -cod -f3 save /dev/sdb1 c6178-154140.part1 partimage -B=0 -cod -f3 save /dev/sdb1 c6178-154140.part3
– Image restoration
[root@server2 burnz]# partimage restore -f3 -B=0 -cod /dev/sda1 /home/burnz/parted-images/serverdisk.part1.000 partimage: status: initializing the operation partimage: status: Restoring partition from the image file... partimage: status: reading partition informations partimage: status: reading header partimage: status: copying used data blocks partimage: status: commiting buffer cache to disk. [root@server2 burnz]# partimage restore -f3 -B=0 -cod /dev/sda3 /home/burnz/parted-images/serverdisk.part3.000 partimage: status: initializing the operation partimage: status: Restoring partition from the image file... partimage: status: reading partition informations partimage: status: reading header partimage: status: copying used data blocks partimage: status: commiting buffer cache to disk.
OR
partimage restore -B=0 /dev/sda1 part1.img partimage restore -B=0 /dev/sda3 part3.img
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