User Guide

Parted Magic-Backup & Restore

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Table of Contents

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Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Backup ................................................................................................................................................. 5

2.1 2.2 Backup Locally ........................................................................................................................................................... 7 Backup to Remote Server ...................................................................................................................................14

Restore............................................................................................................................................... 20
3.1 3.2 Restore From Local Drive ....................................................................................................................................20 Restore From NFS Server ....................................................................................................................................25

Logout From Parted Magic ........................................................................................................ 30

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1 Introduction
Parted Magic is an open source that designed for disk partitioning, cloning and back up. Download the .iso from http://partedmagic.com/download.html and create the bootable CD/DVD using the .iso file. The version used is Parted Magic 5.5, tested on Linux operating system.

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2 Backup
Insert the parted magic CD/DVD into the bootable CD/DVD drive of the computer and run the BIOS setup/configuration menus to make the bootable CD/DVD drive in higher boot order than other bootable device. Then, the Parted Magic boot option will be displayed:

Use and key to select the boot option and press enter. You may use the default setting, which runs from RAM.

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Once boot option is chosen, the operating system will start to load:

Then, the Parted Magic desktop environment will be displayed:

The backup can be placed either locally or remotely.

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2.1 Backup Locally

Click on the Parted Magic button on the bottom left of the taskbar and select System Tools Man File Manager: PC

Various drive in the computer will be displayed on the left most pane. Click on the drive that you wish to place the backup file and the content of the drive will be displayed on the right pane. Right click on the right pane to create new folder, where the backup file should be placed. In this example, the backup file will be placed in the folder parted_magic

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Close the PC Man File Manager and click on the Parted Magic button on the bottom left of the taskbar and select System Tools Clonezilla.

Instruction: Use and to choose the option, and key to switch between OK and Cancel. Press Enter key to confirm. Press Space bar to mark selection. Select device-image to backup using images.

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Select local device:

If you wish to backup the image to the external USB drive, you may attach the drive now and press enter after few seconds.

Next, choose the device that Parted Magic should backup the file to. In this example, the 8587MB drive is where the operating system resides and the 160GB drive is where we wish to have Clonezilla put the set of backup files that it will be creating.

It will then display the list of directories/files of the drive. Select the directories that created earlier, in this example, the directory is parted_magic:

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file system disk space usage is shown:

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Choose Beginner for default parameters:

Select savedisk to save disk as image:

There is default filename assigned to the image, you may change the name if you wish to save the image as another name:

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Choose the source drive to backup:

The command line of the configuration performed will be displayed. Press enter to continue with the backup:

Enter y to continue with the backup:

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The backup started:

The device has been successfully cloned, press Enter to exit:

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2.2 Backup to Remote Server

Parted Magic supports the following method to backup to the remote server: 1. SSH server 2. 3. Samba server NFS server

In this example, NFS server will be used. To backup the image of your drive to remote server, it is required to start a network on the Parted Magic operating system. Click on the Start Network icon on the desktop and it will prompt the start network option. You may use DHCP or configure the network manually.

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Again, click on the Parted Magic button on the bottom left of the taskbar and select System Tools Clonezilla.

Select device-image to backup using images

Select nfs_server

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Choose the NFS version:

Enter the NFS server IP:

Input the NFS path that Parted Magic should mount to:

Upon successfully mounted, the file system disk usage will be displayed. Press Enter to continue:

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Choose Beginner mode in order to choose the extra parameters:

Select savedisk to save disk as image:

There is default filename assigned to the image, you may change the name if you wish to save the image as another name:

Choose the source drive to backup:

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The command line of the configuration performed will be displayed. Press enter to continue with the backup:

Enter y to continue with the backup:

The backup started:

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The device has been successfully cloned, press Enter to exit:

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3 Restore
In future, you may restore the system using the image file that backup earlier. To restore, it is needed to boot the Parted Magic operating system, steps are described on page 5.

3.1 Restore From Local Drive

Open the Clonezilla program and select device-image (for the backup file is images)

Select local device:

Select the source drive that you wish to restore from:

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It will then display the list of directories/files of the drive. Select the directories that where the backup image stored, in this example, the directory is parted_magic

It will then show the file system disk space usage

Choose Beginner for default parameters:

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Select restoredisk to restore an image to the target disk:

It will then lists the available image file folders, select the one that you wish to restore from:

Select the target drive that you wish to restore:

The command line of the configuration performed will be displayed. Press enter to continue with the restore:

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Enter y to continue:

Restore in progress:

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The device has been restored successfully, press Enter to continue:

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3.2 Restore From NFS Server

As pre-requisite to restore from NFS server, the network has to be started as provided on page 14. Open the Clonezilla program and select device-image (for the backup file is images)

Select nfs_server

Choose the NFS version:

Enter the NFS server IP:

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Input the NFS path that Parted Magic should mount to:

Upon successfully mounted, the file system disk usage will be displayed. Press Enter to continue:

Choose Beginner mode for default parameters:

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Select restoredisk to restore an image to the target disk:

It will then lists the available image file folders, select the one that you wish to restore from:

Select the target drive that you wish to restore:

The command line of the configuration performed will be displayed. Press enter to continue with the restore:

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Enter y to continue:

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Restore in progress:

The device has been restored successfully, press Enter to continue:

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4 Logout From Parted Magic

To logout from Parted Magic, click on the Parted Magic button on bottom left of the taskbar and choose logout:

The CD/DVD will then ejected and click OKto reboot the computer:

The computer should now boot from the hard drive.

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