Target Partition Path

[mesmith]

I am new to Linux and Partimage. My needs are simple. I have two hd's. I want to make an image of my basic Linux partition sda1 (on HD one) to sdb1 (on HD two). The GUI seems to come up fine on my system, and I can choose partition sda1 as my source partition. My problem is that I don't know what to enter as the target partiton? The mount point on my xubuntu system for the second HD is /media/sdb1. Is that what I should enter? Or would I enter /dev/sdb1? Do I have to mount this partition (sdb1) before invoking partimage? What would the mount command look like?

Thanks in advance.

[obnascar]

I think this thread should help you:

http://www.partimage.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=646&highlight=

cheers,
obnascar

[mesmith]

I can certainly follow those instructions, but there are some things I don't understand. Since in my normal operations I already have a mount point for the second HD ( /media/sdb1 ) why can't I use that? Also, by setting up a second mount point /mnt/backup (or something) will I end up with two mount points or when I reboot into my normal system will fstab give me my original mount point of /media/sdb1?

Thanks

[obnascar]

I can certainly follow those instructions, but there are some things I don't understand. Since in my normal operations I already have a mount point for the second HD ( /media/sdb1 ) why can't I use that? Also, by setting up a second mount point /mnt/backup (or something) will I end up with two mount points or when I reboot into my normal system will fstab give me my original mount point of /media/sdb1?Thanks

Partimage is not able to auto-mount partitions, that is why you have to manually mount them. Once you reboot your computer if you are using a live CD, or once you leave a terminal if you are runing partimage from another operating system on your computer, no, there will not be a second mount point for that partition because it was just tempory while you were using Partimage. This is a rare proceedure required when using Partimage only as far as I know.

[mesmith]

Took your advice and all worked perfectly.

Thanks,

Mike

[obnascar]

Took your advice and all worked perfectly.
Thanks,
Mike

I am happy to be of some help to you Mike,
obnascar

[DaRKNeSS666NL]

I have some what the same problem..
I have red the other mentioned topic and tried it but no go for me.

Here are my specs
I have two disk arrays

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/dev/cciss/c0d0p1
/dev/cciss/c0d1p5

this way they are mentioned in gparted

So as I make an image I do first (as mentioned in the other topic)

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mkdir /mnt/c0d1p5
mount /dev/cciss/c0d1p5 mnt/c0d1p5

As destination I give

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/mnt/c0d1p5/test

So If i followed the steps correctly no I should have an disk image from my first (c0d0p1) disk. And witch is stored on my second (c0d1p5) disk.

After this I have formatted my first disk to try to set back my backup image. Again I first mounted the second disk the way I mentioned before but I cant seem to get the image back onto the primary disk.

Can anybody point my the right way to do it? btw I am using the SystemRescueCd with this but that's oke I think.

TIA