Our imaging specialist was let go due to covid. Unfortunately, he left no documentation whatsoever on his methods. He has some Windows 10 images which are mostly 13-15GB in size. We got some new machines, nothing special and similar builds. Hard drives are both 500GB. One of our guys tried and ended up with a 60GB image with pretty much identical software installed. I had to learn how to use Clonezilla on the fly and I was able to get it down to 30GB using a newer version of Clonezilla, it had asked me to choose my compression type. It only gave 2 choices.
On top of that, normally the restore time (imaging another device) took about 20-30 minutes. Ours take about 1.5 to 2 hours.
What could we be doing wrong here? Thanks!
Last edit: Jon 2020-08-20
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Perhaps he used gparted to reduce the system partitions to a minium size before cloning (and then again to increase the partition size aftewards).
By the way, I attempted to use email to post to the HELP forum, but I seem to have been unable to do so. This could be becuase my regestered email address is not one from which I send email. My registered email address is a forwarder. How can one start a discussion using the Web interface rather than sending an email?
Last edit: Timothy Takemoto 2020-08-22
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Hi folks,
Our imaging specialist was let go due to covid. Unfortunately, he left no documentation whatsoever on his methods. He has some Windows 10 images which are mostly 13-15GB in size. We got some new machines, nothing special and similar builds. Hard drives are both 500GB. One of our guys tried and ended up with a 60GB image with pretty much identical software installed. I had to learn how to use Clonezilla on the fly and I was able to get it down to 30GB using a newer version of Clonezilla, it had asked me to choose my compression type. It only gave 2 choices.
On top of that, normally the restore time (imaging another device) took about 20-30 minutes. Ours take about 1.5 to 2 hours.
What could we be doing wrong here? Thanks!
Last edit: Jon 2020-08-20
Perhaps he used gparted to reduce the system partitions to a minium size before cloning (and then again to increase the partition size aftewards).
By the way, I attempted to use email to post to the HELP forum, but I seem to have been unable to do so. This could be becuase my regestered email address is not one from which I send email. My registered email address is a forwarder. How can one start a discussion using the Web interface rather than sending an email?
Last edit: Timothy Takemoto 2020-08-22
@Timothy,
For the email/web forum issue, you can contact sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/support
Steven