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    RealAct
    deepin
    2017-12-14 19:33
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    Edited by realact at 2017-12-14 11:56

    Hello there,

    Deepin Clone is not working properly for creating image backups, there  appears to be a bug somewhere, it doesn't see my drives (Except for the system drive) whenever I attempt to do a backup of my system partition or that of the entire disk in the Partition to Image type or Disk to Image etc.  The "ONLY" way it manages to see other drives other than the system drive is if I select media then pick "Clone Disk" in the options to the right,  in which case it deletes and uses the entire disk I select as the destination for image backup (As it is supposed to do if I was to actually do that, which is not the case).

    I have tried mounting/unmounting the drives etc, I have also attempted this from within Deepin (Not Recovery) but then it asks you to reboot the system to continue the  process under Recovery, after the reboot completes and it goes into the Recovery mode nothing happens.

    if I then start the process manually by opening Deepin Clone in Recovery mode that's where the problems happens, the Deepin Clone tool cannot see any drives other than the system disk itself, it does NOT allow to make any kind of image backup, just wanted to report this.

    Regards.

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    wtz
    deepin
    2017-12-15 08:00
    #1
    You can try to mount manually the partition you want, for example:
    1. mount /dev/sdb /mnt
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    The reason for that the file manager does not display other partitions is that Deepin Recovery runs in root permission.
    This may not be a bug, but certainly can be improved https://bbs.deepin.org/user/35000 .
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    风吹过的绿洲
    deepin
    2017-12-15 08:06
    #2
    you are the same with me.maybe next version will solve the problem.
    for this version, first you need to mount the partition then click "select storage location" but not the fold image.
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    RealAct
    deepin
    2017-12-15 19:30
    #3
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/150167
    You can try to mount manually the partition you want, for example:

    The reason for that the file man ...

    The partitions are already mounted, I can see all disks and partitions if I open "Computer" under recovery, like I said, I tried mounting/unmounting them.
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    wtz
    deepin
    2017-12-16 02:56
    #4
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/150167
    The partitions are already mounted, I can see all disks and partitions if I open "Computer" under  ...

    They are mounted, but the file manager won't show them because they are mounted as normal user (by udisksctl) rather than root.
    When you open Deepin Clone, it actually runs with root permission and environment variables of root user, so the file manager knows nothing about partitions previously mounted by other users. But you can find them in /media/deepin.
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    RealAct
    deepin
    2017-12-16 07:15
    #5
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/150167
    They are mounted, but the file manager won't show them because they are mounted as normal user (by ...

    Thanks a lot, I'll try that way then.
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    RealAct
    deepin
    2017-12-16 08:11
    #6
    Edited by realact at 2017-12-16 00:21

    And it worked, so this is the solution in the meantime the Deepin team fixes the cloning tool, One thing though, I had to unmount the destination disk from the Live Enviroment before attempting to mount it under root of course, thanks a lot https://bbs.deepin.org/user/52935 for your help, it is greatly appreciated.
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    melodyzou
    deepin
    2017-12-19 00:47
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