autoname-* not working?

[Batiste DONDOGLIO]

I’m trying to create (savedisk) an image using the autoname-* feature following this naming scheme :

"hostname_ddmmYYYY"
Example: SRV-TST_22072024

I followed the doc and came up with :

autoname-SRV-TST_datefmt_%d%m%Y which should in theory give me what I want...

However it doesn’t work and throws an error « You have to input a proper image name (containing only alphabet, digit, _, - and .) ! Please do it again ! »

I even tried with the example given in the doc « autoname-fox-datefmt_%Y%m%d will create an image name like: fox-20210109. » it still doesn’t work and throws the same error.

What am I doing wrong ? I’m using version 3.1.3-11 of CloneZilla.

See the screenshots attached.

[Batiste DONDOGLIO]

Edit: I tried with Clonezilla's latest version (3.1.3-16): Same issue.

[Steven Shiau]

Please use "-" to separate the name, i.e., in your case, you should use:
autoname-SRV-TST-datefmt_%d%m%Y
Then it will give you the image name like:
SRV-TST-24072024

Steven

[Batiste DONDOGLIO]

Hi Steven,

Thank you for your reply!

I also tried with a dash instead of an underscore as you described, but I'm still facing the same issue unfortunately...

As mentioned in my original post, I even tried using the very same example given in the documentation (autoname-fox-datefmt_%Y%m%d) which also uses a dash, but I still encountered the issue.

I suspect it doesn't parse the "%" correctly, maybe?

[Batiste DONDOGLIO]

Bump

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for your feedback.
My bad. Now I know the issue you have.
Those reserved image is only used in the command line prompt.
Hence you should use it in the green command here:
https://clonezilla.org//clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/images/ocs-10-8-img-save-command-prompt.png

We will try to extend that to the TUI in the future release.

Steven

[Batiste DONDOGLIO]

Hello Steven,

Thank you for your response!

I just tried it as ocs_live_run parameters when booting Clonezilla through PXE, and while it didn't produce any error, it didn't name the image correctly. It literally interprets it as is and produces the image with the same name.

I will try to use the command line manually and see how it behaves, and report my findings here.

In the meantime, here are my command line arguments when using iPXE to boot Clonezilla and saving the image to a NFS share. Please note that everything works except the naming. No errors and the image is successfully saved and working properly. It's really just a naming issue.

My iPXE entry:

:clonez-ZBX
kernel ${kernel}clonezilla/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=fr ocs_live_run="ocs-sr -q2 -j2 -z9p -i 0 -fsck-y -gs -senc -p reboot savedisk autoname-SRV-ZBX_datefmt_%d%m%Y PTUUID=79707a6d-3d90-4315-a162-7e5ac550ac6f" ocs_repository="nfs4://${nfs_srv}/mnt/partimag/" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=${url}images/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
initrd ${initrd}clonezilla/initrd.img
boot || goto start

On the NFS server, this produces the following image (see attached file)

[Batiste DONDOGLIO]

Edit:

From the command line, it indeed works properly, but only if I use a dash instead of an underscore as follows:

autoname-SRV-ZBX-datefmt_%d%m%Y -> Gives: SRV-ZBX-06082024

But this doesn't work and results in the issue stated in my previous post:

autoname-SRV-ZBX_datefmt_%d%m%Y -> Gives SRV-ZBX_%d%m%Y (literally)
Expected: SRV-ZBX_06082024

Ideally, it would be nice to be able to use an underscore if possible, to give the user more flexibility in how they want to name their images.

Thank you for this amazing software !

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for your feedback.
"Ideally, it would be nice to be able to use an underscore if possible, to give the user more flexibility in how they want to name their images. " -> Well, basically we separate the words by "-". If "_" mixes with "-", it won't be easy to parse that. That's why.

Steven