New to the forums and running 18.04. Probably a rookie mistake I am making, but scoured the forums and tutorials.
The gnome-disk-utility tutorials are simple enough and appear to be working in the os they are backing up - just select the partition or whole disk image and choose a destination.
I have a 3 partitions:
- fat... /dev/sda1
- ext4... /dev/sda2 the linux image I am actually trying to backup
- swap partition... /dev/sda3
If I attempt to image the whole disk, after I authenticate I get this error: Error unmounting /dev/sda2:target is busy (udisks-error-quark, 14)
Another error I see is just trying to create a backup of the /dev/sda1 partition alone: Error opening file "/media/freebird/FBbackup/Disk Image of sda1 (2019-11-24 1620).img": Permission denied (g-io-error-quark, 14)
The closest I have been to getting any of the 3 partitions to image is with the swap partition, but only after I disable swapping with sudo swapoff -a
then it works just like in the tutorials and to any destination location. I obviously don't care about the swap partition, but I get errors if I try to use gnome-disk to do the whole drive or either of the other two partitions individually.
I also tried running from Live USB, but then I get permissions issues and similar errors. What am I missing?
Thanks!
Brian