view imaging in progess via progress bar
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Hi All,
I would like to see a tui screen (a bit like the bar that goes across when you restore an image using clonezilla) showing the progress of imaging machines.
That way I can go down to the lab once finished to do any final post imaging work.
There could be a bar per pc or an overall indicator.
The server edition would be best suited for this, however, this would also be handy in clonezilla live. Maybe you can see the progress bar on the ssh server that your imaging from (if you choose that).
thanks
sam russo
Did you mean when Clonezilla is saving or restoring ?
If you mean save, well, no such plan since now the imaging program will pipe the output to another program (e.g. gzip, bzip2 or lzop), so it can not be done.
On the other hand, if you mean restoring, yes, in the future, partclone will support a progress bar (including ntfs).
for restoring: Excellent!
for saving: Sometimes you want to go down to a lab and save an image and walk away whilst its saving. You'd like the session to simply reboot once its finished and return to the normal OS. But presently:
1. You don't know when its finished (both server and live) unless your in front of it.
2. You have to be there on Clonezilla Live to say reboot. It would be better for this to be configured before the image has been saved. That way you can set it and leave it and walk away.
thanks
sam
"1. You don't know when its finished (both server and live) unless your in front of it.", actually you can:
1. On Clonezilla SE, run "/opt/drbl/sbin/dcs -> remote-linux-txt"
2. Boot your client
3. ssh login your client, run "/opt/drbl/sbin/clonezilla".
Then you can monitor the status.
As for "2. You have to be there on Clonezilla Live to say reboot. It would be better for this to be configured before the image has been saved. That way you can set it and leave it and walk away.", yes, will add another option to reboot or shutdown the client after clone is finished. However, if it's CD, might be there is an issue about ejecting CD. However, no such problem about USB flash drive.
Hi Steve,
Just to make sure I understand correcty:
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1. You don't know when its finished (both server and live) unless your in front of it.", actually you can:
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Can't you do it a even simpler way for both SE and Live.
Have a text file in the folder where the image is being created called "progress.txt".
You simple write to this file the progress of this
session as it being done.
Then the administrator can do a:
"tail -f /pathto/progress.txt"
to see the progress.
No need for dcs.
This will work on Live edition as well.
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2. You have to be there on Clonezilla Live to say reboot. ... However, if it's CD, might be there is an issue about ejecting CD. However, no such problem about USB flash drive.
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re: CD. Simply use the option: "To RAM. Boot media can be removed later" ... then you take the CD with you.
Thanks
sam
About the 1st one, actually the advanced parameter:
"-ns Put ntfsclone temp file in image dir in server" is the one you need. However, it's only for ntfsclone and the output actually is not so good, since the messages are shown on the screen with CR. Anyway, it might helps.
2nd one, sure. "ToRAM" is the solution.