First, let’s check we haven’t mounted any partitions of the physical disk. Let’s stop if we haven’t performed a full backup with Clonezilla! We must be cautious because improper usage of raw disk access can lead to total data loss on the physical disk. In the end, the AsusRog-12-img folder contains 24 files, totaling 142.6 GiB.Ĭlonezilla’s complete log is in the text file clonezilla-img (it’s a confusing filename because it might suggest a raw image file, but it’s not). However, dd will make the backup slower and heavier, but there won’t be additional inconveniences: But, if a file system is encrypted, corrupted, or not supported, it does a sector-by-sector copy with dd. In most cases, Clonezilla does a file-by-file copy, skipping unused sectors. Let’s note that /home/partimag mounts the target partition, in this case, /dev/sdb1. The following step is to save the hard disk/partition(s) on this machine as an image: On more than one screen, it must show that we’re using savedisk mode:
To facilitate the later conversion from Clonezilla to VirtualBox, let’s save the entire disk /dev/sda (and not a single partition). In this case, our target is to save the backup of /dev/sda in the AsusRog-12-img folder, placed in the root of /dev/sdb1.
We’ll be asked to set all the parameters before performing the actual backup. As seen in our tutorial, we can run Clonezilla live from its official live distribution, or another live system.
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