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      BedCruncher
      last edited by

      @Sebastian-Roth @george1421
      I’ve got the latest version of those tools downloaded and installed. I will attempt to get one of my images mounted in that way and let you both know how I fare.

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        BedCruncher
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        @george1421 @Sebastian-Roth
        I was having issues with the newer one trying to get it mounted. I uninstalled it and then tried to install the one you sent me the link to, but when I am trying to find any kind of documentation with relevant references to get it working, I can’t really see anything on how to properly use it.

        The restore command I ran is

         cat /images/W7Px64PreSysprep/d1p2.img | gzip -d -c > /tmp/test_img.img
        

        I then ran

        imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f /tmp/test_img.img -m /mnt -t ntfs
        

        and got no errors, but when I do a ls on /mnt I see nothing.

        I had saw on other places such as the Clonezilla FAQ where I might have to run the command modprobe nbd, but I get the error modprobe: FATAL: Module nbd not found.

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          ITSolutions Testers @BedCruncher
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          @BedCruncher said in Mount and Extract files from images:

          I know in the case of adding something I would have to go in and recompress the image and basically get it back to the proper directory and named the proper way at least according to what FOG expects for its own operation. Long term that isn’t what I was thinking about. It was more to be able to at least open an image in a read only format and be able to get access to the image and all files stored within without needing a host box to restore the image to. Espescially if the host box I have on hand is sufficiently different from the original and it BSOD’s on boot.

          When you restore to another box, you don’t have to boot it. What I do is place a second drive in a machine, pull the image to that drive then boot from the first drive, you can then access the files with in the image as a second drive on the machine, never actually booting the image. Then just recapture if any changes are made. No need for having the same hardware.

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            Sebastian Roth Moderator
            last edited by

            @BedCruncher said:

            Module nbd not found.

            That sounds kind of odd. I use the nbd module all the time. Possibly compiled into the kernel instead of compiled as a kernel module? What system are you trying this on? Kernel version? OS version?

            Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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              BedCruncher @Sebastian Roth
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              @Sebastian-Roth
              CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
              3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64

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                Sebastian Roth Moderator
                last edited by Sebastian Roth

                I think I may start crying in a moment… http://purplepalmdash.github.io/blog/2015/08/13/build-nbd-kernel-module-on-centos7/

                Why the hell does CentOS discard nbd kernel module? Haven’t done much research on this yet. Maybe there is a good reason, I don’t know.

                You definitely need the kernel module to be able to use /dev/nbd0!

                Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                  BedCruncher
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                  @Sebastian-Roth
                  I’ve got the proper kernel source downloaded and am building according to the link you provided. Will update once I have any info to add.

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                    BedCruncher
                    last edited by BedCruncher

                    @Sebastian-Roth
                    I’ve got the module build and loaded properly and am starting the restore process to see the it from beginning to end and trying to mount the image using imagemount. Will update once I know more.

                    EDIT:
                    @george1421 @Sebastian-Roth
                    Ran into a slight hitch with the kernel module. Didn’t realize when I rebooted earlier this AM that I had a kernel update. Had to redownload and recompile the nbd module. Still in the testing part of getting the image restored and mounted.

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                      BedCruncher
                      last edited by BedCruncher

                      @Sebastian-Roth @george1421
                      OK, I’ve run it through all of the steps that I can think of to get imagemount working. I’ve not succeeded in this endeavor.

                      To generate the image I first tried

                      cat /images/W7Px64PreSysprep/d1p2.img | pigz -d -c > /tmp/test_img.img
                      

                      I’ve also tried to restore it using

                      cat W7Px64PreSysprep/d1p2.img | gzip -d -c | partclone.ntfs -r -C --restore_raw_file -s - -O /tmp/test_img.img
                      

                      and

                      cat /images/W7Px64PreSysprep/d1p2.img | pigz -d -c | partclone.restore -C -s - -O /tmp/test_img.img
                      

                      and tried to mount the image using

                      imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f test_img.img -r
                      
                      imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f test_img.img -r -m /mnt -t ntfs
                      
                      imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f test_img.img -r -m /mnt -t ntfs -v verbose
                      

                      Do either of you have a thought about how to do anything different?

                      EDIT:
                      I did get the nbd kernel module loaded with my current kernel 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64

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                        Sebastian Roth Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Hmmmmm. I will give this a try on Debian over the weekend… Will let you know. Thanks fro testing and reporting so far.

                        Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                          Sebastian Roth Moderator
                          last edited by Sebastian Roth

                          @BedCruncher Ouch! Not going to suggest those partclone-utils anymore. After playing a little bit with those tools without being successful in regards of actually mounting an image I now have two (four) very ugly un-interruptable processes in my process list:

                          ps ax | grep imagemount
                           7979 ?        Ds     0:00 /path/to/partclone-utils-0.2.1/src/imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f disk.img -m /mnt/ -t ntfs
                           7980 ?        Z      0:00 [imagemount] <defunct>
                           8020 ?        D      0:00 /path/to/partclone-utils-0.2.1/src/imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f disk.img -m /mnt/ -t ntfs
                           8023 ?        Z      0:00 [imagemount] <defunct>
                          

                          I probably need to reboot to get rid of those. This tool is definitely a bit odd and probably needs some good work to make it work.

                          [edit]At least I was able to clean things up by starting imagemount as a foreground process and enable verbose logging like this ./imagemount -d /dev/nbd0 -f sys.img -m /mnt/ -t ntfs -Dr -v 2 - but still there is nothing in /mnt. Some image files even fail with weird “No such file or directory” errors although the file does exist and is readable. I have no idea…[/edit]

                          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                            Sebastian Roth Moderator
                            last edited by Sebastian Roth

                            There is another project called partclone-nbd. Although I had to modify CMakeList.txt (change version from 3.1 to 3.0 as debian comes with cmake 3.0.2) and src/signals.c (define the loop counter before the for loop) to be able to build that tool.

                            /path/to/partclone-nbd/partclone-nbd -c sys.img 
                            [ DBG ] Log file initialized.
                            [ DBG ] Image file opened.
                            [ DBG ] Image header readed.
                            [ DBG ] Correct image signature.
                            [ DBG ] Detected supported image version 0001.
                            [ DBG ] Header data loaded.
                            [ DBG ] 
                            [ DBG ] Information from header:
                            [ DBG ] - device size: 532417536 bytes
                            [ DBG ] - blocks count: 98138
                            [ DBG ] - used blocks: 16499
                            [ DBG ] - block size: 4096 bytes
                            [ DBG ] - checksum size: 4 bytes
                            [ DBG ] - blocks per checksum: 1
                            [ DBG ] 
                            [ DBG ] Bitmap type is "byte".
                            [ DBG ] Memory required by bitmap: 12272.
                            [ DBG ] Memory for bitmap allocated.
                            [ DBG ] Bytemap mapped to memory.
                            [ DBG ] Correct bitmap signature.
                            [ DBG ] Bytemap loaded to bitmap.
                            [ DBG ] Bytemap unmapped.
                            [ DBG ] Bitmap created.
                            [ DBG ] Memory required by cache array: 24.
                            [ DBG ] Memory for bitmap cache allocated.
                            [ DBG ] Cache created.
                            [ DBG ] Image image created.
                            [ INF ] Image loaded.
                            [ DBG ] A pair of sockets created.
                            [ DBG ] /dev/nbd0 device opened.
                            [ DBG ] NBD device socket cleared.
                            [ DBG ] Socket for communication with kernel set.
                            [ DBG ] Image block size (4096) sent.
                            [ DBG ] Number of blocks (98138) sent.
                            [ DBG ] Read only device attribute set.
                            [ DBG ] Lock thread created.
                            [ DBG ] Memory for storing a chunk allocated.
                            [ DBG ] Signal return point set.
                            [ DBG ] SIGHUP handler set.
                            [ DBG ] SIGINT handler set.
                            [ DBG ] SIGTERM handler set.
                            [ DBG ] SIGQUIT handler set.
                            [ DBG ] SIGUSR1 handler set.
                            [ DBG ] SIGUSR2 handler set.
                            [ INF ] Waiting for requests ...
                            

                            Looks promising I thought. But when I try mounting /dev/nbd0 I get: ntfs-3g-mount: mount failed: Permission denied (yes I am root!) - not sure what I’m doing wrong.

                            [edit]Ok, getting closer I suppose. Tried a different image (all dummy test images). When trying to mount I get this:

                            Failed to read last sector (204798): Invalid argument
                            HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
                               or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
                               or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
                               or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
                               or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
                            Failed to mount '/dev/nbd2': Invalid argument
                            The device '/dev/nbd2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
                            Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
                            partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
                            

                            Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                              x23piracy @BedCruncher
                              last edited by x23piracy

                              @BedCruncher @Sebastian-Roth @Tom-Elliott

                              Hi, i even tried it and it worked like a charm on ubuntu 14.04, it would be a really cool improvement when this could be done directly in the fog webinterface, lets say a button in the image management that could be clicked.

                              When extraction and mounting is finished send email when configured and or use the pushbullet plugin to tell the admin that image extraction and mounting is finished.

                              Lets say we have a fixed mount point for example /mnt we can configure samba to easily access the moint point from a remote machine.

                              Finally we need another webif button to umount and delete the extracted image when finished restoring.

                              Another idea is to automatically umount the restore mountpoint and delete the extracted image after lets say 24 hours (maybe cron driven) because after that amount of time restoring files should be finished and that way the admin cannot forget to umount the restore point and to delete the extracted image. Anyway if the storage is big enough that should not harm the system until the next image has to be restored.

                              Don’t forget additional Storage Nodes, this have to work with Main Fog and additional Storage Nodes, where ever the Image is stored.

                              What do you guys think about that?

                              EDIT:

                              I found the following on the web:

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                              zcat sda5.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa | partclone.ext4 -C -s - -r -o /mnt/sda1.loop.img --restore_raw_file
                              

                              https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/4db4b2bd/#8d04

                              Regards X23

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                                x23piracy
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                                Maybe something like that:

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                                  BedCruncher @x23piracy
                                  last edited by

                                  @x23piracy
                                  Where did you find that link? I’d like to run it through a translator to be able to see what it says.

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                                    x23piracy @BedCruncher
                                    last edited by x23piracy

                                    @BedCruncher it’s just a case study, some photoshopping not an existing option, i just wanted to show what i would expect from that option, for the case it becomes true 😉

                                    Regards X23

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                                      BedCruncher @x23piracy
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                                      @x23piracy
                                      Sorry, I didn’t perhaps explain what I was referencing. I was meaning the comment you had posted prior to this last series of images. The one that was authored by Thorsten F.

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                                        x23piracy @BedCruncher
                                        last edited by x23piracy

                                        @BedCruncher ah okay 😉 here is a bad translation from google:

                                        Probably it works as described , but after studying the manual pages of part clone I recommend rather the following call : sudo partclone.ext4 -r -W -C -L partclone.log -s sda10.ext4 - PTCL img -o sda10.img I call on partclone.ext4 because the developer device itself , no longer partclone.restore to use . After that is " -r " for restore , " -W " for the Create a file that you can embed a loop device ( which is missing in the post completely , I think ) , " C " that the free space is not checked is , " -L partclone.log " for a log file in the current directory , " -s " for the input file ( here, of course - if one of gzip out pipet ) and " -o " for the output file . I found it as easy to strange a directory " / dir " in the root directory to create - why not just a file in loakeln directory , or wherever there is enough space , create ? reply

                                        Original link: https://simonstamm.de/clonezilla-image-mounten-um-einzelne-dateien-wiederherzustellen/

                                        Regards X23

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                                          BedCruncher @x23piracy
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                                          @x23piracy
                                          Wow, google for the Mangle Translation Win.

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                                            BedCruncher @Sebastian Roth
                                            last edited by

                                            @Sebastian-Roth
                                            Did you ever get anywhere with the alternate client/project that you were looking at? Just curious.

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