Can I restore a single partition from a Clonezilla disk image?
Yes, just use for restore image from Clonezilla:
cat sda5.ext3-ptcl-img.gz.a* | gunzip -c | partclone.restore -d -s - -o /dev/sda5
I just had to restore a partition from one of my image backups.
Steps:
As my backup was to an external nfs drive, I booted of the clonezilla cd,
start clonezilla
select device image
select nfs-server, static
I configured my nfs drive to use clonezilla defaults, so I just hit enter several times, you may have to enter ip's, masks, shares, etc.
select EXIT - command line
select cmd
sudo bash (become root, or you won't be able to backup
cd /home/partimag
ls - determine where your backup is, and then cd to that directory
my partition was an ext4 partition, so my recover string was -
cat sda9.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.a* | gunzip -c | partclone.restore -d -s - -o /dev/sda9
- then exit and reboot.
Worked great for me. Only advice I have - if you have spare hardware to perform restores, practice. A wise man once told me "Any idiot can do backups, but it takes a genius to successfully restore"
If you make a backup of all your partitions, you should have all data.
Clonezilla will also create a backup file of your MBR and how your partition table is set up.
If you have no weird copy protection system or something installed on your computer (that would save license information if supposedly free blocks for example) then the partition backup should be fine.