Switched to Tumbleweed, now Clonezilla clones now happening much faster.
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Just sharing an observation. I recently switched from Ubuntu Gnome desktop LTS to Opensuse Tumbleweed Gnome. I'm using a home AMD laptop, not a server. For a long time I used Clonezilla 3.0 (live USB) to make clones of my internal Ubuntu drive (2TB nvme) to an external USB-C connected 2TB nvme drive. At first the clone would take about 30 min, but after 2 or 3 years it got slower to about 45 min or an hour.
After switching to Tumbleweed the same clone under the same conditions now takes about 20 min. Interesting and nice.
Any ideas why it got faster? The only difference seems to be the switch to Tumbleweed. I'm using a live USB, so I'm assuming Tumbleweed and the Linux kernel is totally off and shut down while the clone is running.
Does switching to Tumbleweed also include some updates to USB IO firmware or some other firmware updates that could cause the speed increase?
I'm a newbie and don't know Linux or hardware details.
Last edit: Advait 2024-02-05
Did you mean you use Clonezilla live to save your Opensuse Tumbleweed Gnome as an image?
If so, it really depends on the files (used blocks) on your file system which yous OS uses.
Clonezilla live has its own OS (Debian or Ubuntu), so it's nothing to do with the OS you want to take an image.
Steven
I never work with images. I only do whole disk clones with the Live USB to an external USB connected drive.