Failure to restore Size issue
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:52 pm
I have always used the .img.gz format to backup and then to successfully restore to one of many Kingston 16GB DataTraveler SE9 flash drives.
Recently by chance I simply selected the .img format, i.e. not compressed, and when restoring the image to another identical DataTraveler SE9 flash drive, I got an immediate error that the destination flash drive was too small.
I then inserted the original source drive and imaged to the .img.gz format, and then successfully restored to previously noted flash drive which had failed.
So just to make it clear the source and destination flash drives are all identical Kingston 16GB DataTraveler SE9's.
So this was a bit of a surprise, the workaround is to use the compressed format.
Recently by chance I simply selected the .img format, i.e. not compressed, and when restoring the image to another identical DataTraveler SE9 flash drive, I got an immediate error that the destination flash drive was too small.
I then inserted the original source drive and imaged to the .img.gz format, and then successfully restored to previously noted flash drive which had failed.
So just to make it clear the source and destination flash drives are all identical Kingston 16GB DataTraveler SE9's.
So this was a bit of a surprise, the workaround is to use the compressed format.