Dear all Clonezilla users,
Today, I used Clonezilla for the first time. As a test I decided to
see how it worked. I used the 'clone partition to an image' option ( I
cannot remember the exact terminology).
Clonezilla asked me where it could write the TARGET images to. I
instructed it to use my USB *BACKUP* disc under the directory /,
expecting it to write a file into it.
No, it deleted everything and wrote this onto the disc partition:
# ls -l /media/1.2.2-26/
total 25
-r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root 107 2009-07-20 03:38 Clonezilla-Live-Version
-r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root 17982 2009-07-19 02:50 COPYING
dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root 2048 2009-07-20 03:38 isolinux
dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root 2048 2009-07-20 03:38 live
dr-xr-xr-x 5 sloewent root 2048 2009-07-20 03:38 utils
As a result, I have lost all my backups, including all my work related
to music that I have had since 2001. All files. Everything. Yes, this
does equate to a heavy financial loss. Yes, I cannot reproduce the
data. Yes, I lost the invoices that I had to keep for tax purposes
thatI have to produce some time next year.
* Does anyone know of any tools that can recover lost files? The
filesystem type is ext3. *
Regards, S.
PS. Of course, I thank-you in advance if I am not lectured about keeping
files in disc one partition and not having at least two or three disc
backups, but discs are not that cheap, and I had expected Clonezilla to
at least state that it was going to delete everything under the
directory. Agreed, this was still a user-error.
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