Hello, I clone to a NAS. Partclone gets ready, the message shows up that the cloning is sucessful but I have to wait a couple of minutes till the data is actually written to the NAS and the process ends. There i no progress bar/nothing that I can see, I have to wait and than it ends. What can I do?
Thanks.
Shalom
F. :-)
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Interesting, thx, will try it. Do not work very much with Unix, use Acronis TrueImage for a long time and try to switch to clonezilla because I can script it.
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Hello, I clone to a NAS. Partclone gets ready, the message shows up that the cloning is sucessful but I have to wait a couple of minutes till the data is actually written to the NAS and the process ends. There i no progress bar/nothing that I can see, I have to wait and than it ends. What can I do?
Thanks.
Shalom
F. :-)
Looks like the cached data were synchronized and written to persistent storage... Just wait for it to be finished.
Steven
But it takes very long. Any chance to get a progress bar? Or save without caching?
F. :-)
Maybe you can find a way to check the flusing mechanism by some command which I do not know, like check this doc:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/48235/can-i-watch-the-progress-of-a-sync-operation
If you find that, switch to another console of Clonezilla live (e.g., ctrl-alt-F2) then run that command to monitor it.
Steven
Seems like this:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=209359
I have 40 GB RAM so it maybe clones to RAM and then flushes... I cannot find a way to prevent chaching
The disk cache can be disabled, e.g.,
hdparm -W 0 /dev/sda
Maybe it helps.
Steven
Interesting, thx, will try it. Do not work very much with Unix, use Acronis TrueImage for a long time and try to switch to clonezilla because I can script it.
Hi Rainer
You might try and tune the parameters to the sysctl virtual memory setting on your Clonezilla boot disk:
gedit admin:///etc/sysctl.conf
vm.dirty_ratio = 4
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 2
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sysctl
And possibly also add this:
vm.swappiness=10
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap
Last edit: chuck 2019-10-24
Sound promising, thx. Can I edit this "offline" on the pen drive? So I can maybe script the edits for updates.
Tried the alternate download, there seems no such problems. Immediate ending. And seems faster over ethernet to my NAS.
Thanks for sharing that. Maybe it's related to Linux kernel and hardware support issue, or some updated version of related packages work better.
Steven
And it seems to depend on the hardware, another one caches and then write.