Simon,
Sorry to hear that. However, by default Clonezilla will _NOT_ delete any 
files on the target directory when you save an image on that.
It will just mount the target media as /home/partimag then save the 
image on that.
Did you remember the steps you have done? Did you interrupt when 
Clonezilla saves an image?
If you can provide more info, I think we might have some way to show 
some warning messages to avoid that.

Steven.


Jay Mistry wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Simon Loewen <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> 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. *
>>     
>
> Hope this message gets to you in time: here's a nice tutorial on
> recovering deleted files in Linux:
>
> http://www.linuxforu.com/how-to/recovering-deleted-files-easily/
>
> I found this tutorial very good and so made an .ODT (OO.org Writer)
> file of the same; let me know if you would like me to email it to you.
>
> Jay
>
>   

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