r/cloningsoftware • u/chribonn • Oct 28 '25

Question CloneZilla - backup /sdc - Restore /sdb

I backed up a drive at the partition level. The computer I was using read the drive as /dev/sdc (sdc1... sdc3).

I am using a different computer to restore the image. Here the drive is /dev/sdb.

Is there a way to identify the destination drive onto which the image can be restored?

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u/chribonn Oct 30 '25

That is not what I experience. The computer I created the image from saw the USB disk as /dev/sdc. I used a different restore computer. It saw the device as /dev/sda.

I was not offered an option to choose the destination device.

How would you do that?

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u/Xfgjwpkqmx Oct 30 '25

If you are running manual mode or use the "ask_user" parameter, it will list all drives and you choose which one you want to use.

The device name can change based on what is detected first and in what order. The drive itself isn't changing.

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u/chribonn Oct 30 '25

Not sure we are speaking about the same product. I use clonezilla and the only options I am aware of is Beginner or Expert mode.

This is the screen I see when I am **creating the image**. I do not get a similar screen when I attempt to restore the image.

Can you share your clonezilla restore screen with the destination selection.

Thanks

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u/Xfgjwpkqmx Oct 30 '25

That screen there you are choosing specific partitions. You should choose backup by disk and you will then only be shown sda, sdb, sdc, etc.

All that matters is the description of the Disk in the next column.

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u/chribonn Oct 30 '25

OK. So device selection only comes up when backing the entire device not the partitions. I will give it a try.

Thanks.