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I used Clonezilla to back up the image of a disk on a Dell Inspiron PC on which I had installed Debian 7.0. I saved the images to a 2 TB Western Digital MyBook. Everything appeared to work fine. Now I would like to restore the disk. I follow the instructions here but, after choosing "Beginner Mode", I get to the screen where I should be able to choose "Restore Disk" but the only options are:

Save disk
Save parts
Exit

I can see the WD MyBook when I am running Clonezilla and I choose that as the source of the image. I also followed the solution posted here and set up the directory structure on the MyBook as follows.

C:/MyBook/AppServerCloneZilla/2014-06-09-00-imgAppServer

2014-06-09-00-imgAppServer contains the clonezilla-img list file. It doesn't matter whether I choose the top directory of the MyBook or I choose /CloneZillaBackup/, I only get the 3 options listed above. I never get the option to "Restore Disk".

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OtagoHarbour
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OK. It appears I have solved the problem. It seems that Clonezilla doesn't like too many subdirectories. I moved 2014-06-09-00-imgAppServer up to the same level as AppServerCloneZilla. That is

C:/MyBook/2014-06-09-00-imgAppServer

Now I have the restore option.

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After creating the image I had changed the directory name to something I liked. But then clonezilla did not recognize the directory as image. So I changed the name so that it end with -img (to make it look like original one) and supplied the parent directory as image source. That helped.

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I guess there can be multiple causes for the problem in OP, so I'm adding my answer as well.

Make sure the image file is unarchived. In my case, someone in my team archived (using tar) for whatever motivation (maybe to make the image files portable, which makes sense). After I untarred (so that I have 1 top level directory where there are many sub directories and files inside of it), I started seeing restore and other options.

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