HDa (SDA) bios and first sector files not created

[shumifan50]

I tried to use a 2TB USB connected drive to backup a system image.
The first problem is that PING did not find /dev/sdi. To fix this I went to a console window (press x) and did the mount myself (mount /dev/sdi /mnt/usbdrive). This worked fine and I could access the drive with "ls" and "mkdir". I then fired up partimage (/usr/sbin/partimage) and selected the various options and did the backup. It completed in about 5 hours (78GiB) and reported success. When I look at the directory on the 2TiB drive it has all the image files (xxx.000 xxx.001 up to xxx.035), but the hda/sda file, the bios file and the first sector files are missing. When I try to restore this backed up image, it refuses it.

Questions:
1. Is there any way to create the missing files without redoing the whole backup?
2. What could have caused the missing file to happen?

Any help appreciated.

[shumifan50]

It turns out I ran the wrong thing after mounting the drive: partimage only creates the image files, you have to run the script(correct one) from the PING directory and then the files are created. You have to run
/opt/PING/rc.ping
This can save you a reboot.

The problem with the USB drive not being recognised is because PING only looks at partitions and I did not partition the drive. I am in the process of doing that and will post results here. I hope this fixes the problem.

Problem solved after partitioning it found the USB drive.