#161 Cannot create a feature request ticket

[B L]

Hello,

New to sourceforge. Why can I not create a ticket under feature requests but I can elsewhere? Is this a new user limitation?

I just wanted to suggest that a benchmark option be offered in the file compression selection page (perhaps also a option for percent of total data selected to include in benchmark, or just run for a fixed time like a minute).
After it runs, the benchmark could show compression ratio, estimated time (or just average GB/min, which is already computed) or both.

Thanks!

[Steven Shiau]

About the suggestions to sourceforge, you have to report that to sourceforge, not in this forum.
As for the "a benchmark option"? What did you mean?
"After it runs, the benchmark could show compression ratio, estimated time (or just average GB/min, which is already computed) or both." ->
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/images/ocs-11-2-save-progress-2.png
So the time and GB/min shown are not what you want?

Steven

[B L]

What I mean is that dialogue would run (briefly just to estimate the
compression ratio and GB/min) for ALL compression options so you could
decide which option is best based on your time and space constraints. From
compression ratio and GB/min estimates, final backup size and total backup
time could be estimated.

I have been using this software for 10+ years now so thanks for your
consideration! I know a lot of hard work is put into this.

~Brandon

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for your feedback.
The ratio and time will highly depend on the data you have on the hard drive. If there are many files which are compressed format, like jpg or mp4, the compression ratio will not be good. Hence it's not easy to estimate. We can only give some descriptions about the compression methods.

Steven

[B L]

Makes sense, that's what I figured. However, if you ran a benchmark on the actual data on the actual machine, could one not get somewhat accurate
estimates?
~Brandon

[Steven Shiau]

Actual data depend... There are many cases from different user's data on the hard drive. So the rough description should be enough, and it can not be accurate since we never know what the data are.

Steven

[B L]

Ok, thanks! Just a suggestion that I thought would be useful. I personally
don't really care if its that accurate, as long as it says something to
that effect.
~Brandon

On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 10:14 PM Steven Shiau steven_shiau@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

Actual data depend... There are many cases from different user's data on
the hard drive. So the rough description should be enough, and it can not
be accurate since we never know what the data are.

Steven

• [support-requests:#161]
  https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/support-requests/161/ Cannot create
  a feature request ticket*

Status: open
Group: clonezilla live testing
Created: Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:20 AM UTC by B L
Last Updated: Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:01 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

Hello,

New to sourceforge. Why can I not create a ticket under feature requests
but I can elsewhere? Is this a new user limitation?

I just wanted to suggest that a benchmark option be offered in the file
compression selection page (perhaps also a option for percent of total data
selected to include in benchmark, or just run for a fixed time like a
minute).
After it runs, the benchmark could show compression ratio, estimated time
(or just average GB/min, which is already computed) or both.

Thanks!

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