Why has Clonezilla 1.2.2-31 become so slow?
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Hi everyone, I'm new in the forum.
Some months ago I downloaded Clonezilla Live 1.2.1-53 to backup my Windows and Linux partitions, so when I make a fresh install of an operating system, I create an image of that partition, and when the OS gets corrupted I just have to restore that image, without having to format and reinstall again.
And I was happy with it, so I recently downloaded 1.2.2-31 (stable version, not testing), made the images with it, had no issues and it took about half an hour to create an image of my Windows partition (in NTFS), whose size is about 96 Gb, but with only 11 Gb used.
But when I want to restore that image, it's jawdroppingly slow!! at first it announces a transfer rate of more than 100 Mb per second, and a reasonable remaining time of about one hour, but when time goes on the transfer rate falls and falls, and the estimated remaining time grows and grows. It reached up to seven hours!! I then aborted the restoring and rebooted the computer (of course leaving the Windows partition corrupted).
Apart from this, you know that when you start using the program, after selecting "local dev" you see a yellow text that tells you, that if you want to use an USB device, you have to insert it in that moment, wait a few seconds and press Enter. And you know that after that, it says "Excluding busy partition or disk".
Well, the problem is that sometimes it gets stuck there!! and I have to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot.
Does anyone have an idea of what's happening?
Thank you.
I believe this is kernel/hardware issue. Please give testing Clonezilla live or alternative (ubuntu-based) clonezilla live a try. Both of them come with newer kernel than 1.2.2-31.
Steven.
But if I use a testing version, is there no more risk of encountering bugs?
And how is it possible that the older version I've been using (1.2.1-53) does not have those problems? Maybe because it uses Ntfsclone instead of Partclone?
Ohh, by the way: some time ago, when I was still using 1.2.1-53, I installed Mandriva One 2009 on my computer and then I made an image of the partition. Mandriva uses a graphical version of Grub, but when I restored the image with Clonezilla (remember, the old 1.2.1-53), Grub was not graphical but textual (as in most distros). I don't care about having Grub in graphical or textual mode, but I was surprised because any image program is suposed to backup and restore partitions exactly. Does this apply to more modern versions of Clonezilla?
Thanks.
Yes, in the testing branch, you might hit another bug. However, it might also fix the bug you have.
Your case I believe is the kernel regression issue. So first backup important data, then give testing Clonezilla live a try.
As for the grub issue, since every distribution has its own patches for graphical part, however, the one used in Clonezilla live is from Debian, it might not work with the graphical part of your mandriva. If you do care about the grub graphical part, you can either:
(1) Remove "-g auto" in the expert mode (and you might need to run (2) if the restored OS fails to boot).
or
(2) Use the Mandriva boot CD, then run grub-install from that.
Steven.
Ok, thanks a lot for being so quick in replying.