Hello!

I have Ubuntu 14.04 with recently installed kernel 4.4
A few month ago I did a backup image with Clonezilla. I have a dual-boot system (Linux/W10). My laptop is connected to USB HD. Ubuntu is on the external USB3 drive. Windows is inside the laptop and on another partition inside the laptop, which is formatted into ext4 there's a Clonezilla image (well, it's the directory and the image is inside of it). So I want to use the image that resides on the internal HD to recreated the whole disk that is external. What happens after I boot into Clonezilla is that I get to the destination screen and then I must choose the source. No restore option, just a saving option and in the end I see my Ubuntu USB3 HD (as a source). I don't how to explain to Clonezilla that I want to restore from image. Unfortunately, there's no way to bluntly choose that option from the start. Clonezilla itself gives you the options it considers correct.

Just to check, are you booting off a Clonezilla Live USB/CD?

Sounds like you picked the wrong option initially - you would need "disk-image".

I encountered an issue on Clonezilla.
I had a server (2 drives).
I restore to a PC for testing but the PC has only 1 hard disk, so I was wondering why the image was not complete.
I added a new drive (2 drives now), I restore again and boom, the image restoration was complete.

You need to make sure that when you are restoring, the image where you will restore has exactly the same physical settings. What I mean if the physical machine that was clone has 3 drives, then you need to restore it to a machine with 3 drives, as well.

or check out this link: http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-...ore_disk_image

I think the hint is on the name of the software itself "Clone"-zilla, the developer literally express it; "clone" so everything has to be the same. Cheers!

Yes, of course. DVD.

No, I think I chose disk - image option, not disk - disk one.

And how is it all applicable to my situation? I don't have more than one HDD. I made a backup of the same HDD that I was planning to restore to.

Some update though... The Ubuntu installation on my external HDD is alive again, all of a sudden. The disk is like 7 yo. Yesterday I heard a metal kinda bang in it when I turned my PC on.
I don't know if it's a co-incidence, but a few days ago there was a kernel upgrade from 3.16 to 4.4
And yesterday I couldn't boot my system. A few times it dropped to BusyBox and I thought that the HDD was dead. That's why I wanted to restore 3.16 backup (from before the kernel upgrade) to external HDD, so I booted from Clonezilla HDD, but it didn't even let me do a restore.
So that's the full story.

A few months ago I succeded to do the restoration with Clonezilla (with kernel 3.6.). I just don't remember what exactly I was doing and what choices Clonezilla gave me back then.
Let me ask you a general Clonezilla question though. When you want to restore... How does Clonezilla knows that that's what you want and not the backup again?

Maybe I had to choose the DIRECTORY where Clonezilla image files are in?
I just chose a ext4 partition where they are. And then I think I chose top directory. Maybe I had to specify the Clonezilla directory in which there are all its files? So I would see restoration options on the next Clonezilla screen. Please explain that to me. Like first I choose the partition in which I have a backup files, then on the next screen I see a few options to choose a DIRECTORY. Default option is "Top directory" and in my particular case, I have a partition and in it I have a folder and in that folder I have a bunch of Clonezilla backup files.

Ok, maybe I'll try again and see what happens.

It was a wrong assumption. Clonezilla doesn't show its own directory (actually, it says that its own folder is excluded). But... and it's a small miracle, this time I got a restoration option and I did the restoration process till its successful end. I chose the default "Top directory" option after choosing the partition on which the Clonezilla backup directory was.
The only difference that this time was from when it did no work was that this time I was restoring a backup of Ubuntu with a new kernel (4.4.) and before that with the old one (3.16)