How do I restore a partitioned .dmg image to a new drive?

I created a disk image of a partitioned drive (3 partitions) But when I run restore Disk Utility it only restores one partition. The size of the backup.dmg file is over 200gb so I know it imaged the contents of all three partitions.
I disk Utility is not capable of restoring my imaged hard drive, is there any software that is capable?
I know my mistake, I should have imaged each partition separately, but that is the benefit of hindsight, now I need to get my data from, of course, the partition DU is not restoring, Arrg!

When you mount the disk image, do all the partitions mount?

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