I'm cloning an image of my hard disk as I write this. However it's running very slow 24MB/min. So I want to stop it before it finishes. I'm backing up the image on a external USB hard drive WD 1T and I have loaded the boot files into the RAM memory of the laptop.
I don't care about the image, I just need it to quit in a safe way so the WD drive isn't damaged.
I already have an image of my hard drive i made prevously on a USB stick, so i don't care if it messes up my current installation of linux.
Thanks
Boris
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Actually your WD disk is not mounted when Clonezilla is saving the image. So you can press "ctrl-alt-del" to reboot your machine, or press "ctrl-alt-F2", then run "poweroff".
Steven.
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I made an image previously using an 8 GB kingston USB 2.0 stick and it worked around 1200MB/min.
But with the WD MyBook (i connect it through USB wich is supposed to be 2.0) it's slow when making the image, but worjks quite fast when restoring the same image.
I don't know what -z4 and -z2 compression options are. I'll look into it and if i come up with any results i'll post back here.
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"-z2" and "-z4" options are in the expert mode, so if you did not change that, Clonezilla by default uses -z1 (gzip).
Maybe the problem is on the BIOS settings? Or the kernel support… Which version of Clonezilla live did you use? Did you try different Clonezilla live, e.g. 20091127-karmic?
Steven.
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Hi everyone,
I'm cloning an image of my hard disk as I write this. However it's running very slow 24MB/min. So I want to stop it before it finishes. I'm backing up the image on a external USB hard drive WD 1T and I have loaded the boot files into the RAM memory of the laptop.
I don't care about the image, I just need it to quit in a safe way so the WD drive isn't damaged.
I already have an image of my hard drive i made prevously on a USB stick, so i don't care if it messes up my current installation of linux.
Thanks
Boris
Actually your WD disk is not mounted when Clonezilla is saving the image. So you can press "ctrl-alt-del" to reboot your machine, or press "ctrl-alt-F2", then run "poweroff".
Steven.
Thank you very much for your answer Steven.
Eventually I waited for the image cloning to complete.
I apologize for posting twice.
However while we are at it, is there a way to make the cloning process on the WD drive faster?
Previously I restored an image that was stored on the same WD drive and then it worked quite fast, around 1200 MB/min.
Why is the difference in writing and reading speed so drastic?
No idea why it's so slow, only 24MB/min… Did you save that image to USB 1 device? Did you choose to use the -z4 or -z2 compression option?
Here normally the speed is about 600 MB/min to 2000 MB/min, depends on the storage device, CPU, the algorithm for compression….
Steven.
I made an image previously using an 8 GB kingston USB 2.0 stick and it worked around 1200MB/min.
But with the WD MyBook (i connect it through USB wich is supposed to be 2.0) it's slow when making the image, but worjks quite fast when restoring the same image.
I don't know what -z4 and -z2 compression options are. I'll look into it and if i come up with any results i'll post back here.
"-z2" and "-z4" options are in the expert mode, so if you did not change that, Clonezilla by default uses -z1 (gzip).
Maybe the problem is on the BIOS settings? Or the kernel support… Which version of Clonezilla live did you use? Did you try different Clonezilla live, e.g. 20091127-karmic?
Steven.