• Recent
  • Unsolved
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Search
  • Register
  • Login
  • Recent
  • Unsolved
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Search
  • Register
  • Login

Difference between partimage and partclone?

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved
General
3
9
10.5k
Loading More Posts
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • W
    WourN
    last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 8:26 AM

    Hi!

    I’ve used Fog for a while, and I recently updated to the new version.
    I am not that good or familiar with linux, I only know the basics.

    So what is the difference between partimage and partclone in this new fog?
    And please try to explain newbie-friendly 😛

    ~WourN

    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
    • T
      Tom Elliott
      last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:20 AM

      The best I can give you are the Documentation links for either program:

      [url]http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page[/url]

      [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/partclone/[/url]

      Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

      Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • W
        WourN
        last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:37 AM

        Yeah, well I was hoping not to read walls of text.
        As I understand, 0.32 (which I had before 1.1) was using partimage right?
        But 1.1 also provides partclone. Why did you add this?

        What differs partclone from partimage?

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • T
          Tom Elliott
          last edited by Jun 11, 2014, 10:55 AM

          We added partclone because partimage, from all looks, is not under active development. It still lists support for NTFS as beta/experimental. It also did not have support for other types of filesystems such as ext4, xfs, btrfs where Partclone does.

          Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

          Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • W
            WourN
            last edited by Jun 12, 2014, 9:27 AM

            Okay, but why does partclone images take so long to upload then?
            It takes like 5 times more time to upload a partclone image vs partimage

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • T
              Tom Elliott
              last edited by Jun 12, 2014, 10:22 AM

              [quote=“WourN, post: 29993, member: 17318”]Okay, but why does partclone images take so long to upload then?
              It takes like 5 times more time to upload a partclone image vs partimage[/quote]

              What are you using to upload images? I haven’t noticed a “5 times more time to upload” when I need to upload images. There is one slight difference though. In 1.x.x the default compression rating is set to max which can cause VM’s to upload much slower than normal. This is just the nature of VM’s. They don’t have the “RAW” processing power of your typical systems. If you add CPU’s to the VM this increases the speed. Or if you adjust the value to less compression ( 3 was the default in 0.32 and earlier where 9 is the default in 1.x.x ) it should help speed the image upload process up for you.

              Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

              Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

              Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • S
                scottmcmullan8
                last edited by Jul 8, 2014, 10:42 AM

                How I take an image using part clone as opposed to part image? Is it just a matter, now that I am running fog 1.1.2, to capture the image again using upload and now that fog is using part clone it will be captured in this way? Are there any other settings under image management that need changed?

                The image I am currently using was taking using fog 0.3.x - is this the reason it has part image as the deploy method ?

                Thanks

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • T
                  Tom Elliott
                  last edited by Jul 8, 2014, 10:54 AM

                  We attempted, our best, to make things as user friendly coming from 0.32 or earlier to FOG 1.x.x. In an upgrade, any image that was in the database is labeled as legacy. Yes, reuploading the image will force it into partclone format. Word of caution, if you set the image type to partimage and it’s supposed to be partclone your systems will not image. Same in reverse, if you try to use partimage on the download task when the image is partclone, the image will not happen. Partclone and Partimage use different methods to capture the image and are not cross-compatible.

                  Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

                  Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

                  Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • S
                    scottmcmullan8
                    last edited by Jul 8, 2014, 2:47 PM

                    Just to update you, I have just tested updating the image in fog 1.1.2 which uses part clone to capture and the progress bar is now working. 😉

                    Thanks for the help, appreciated. 🙂

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • 1 / 1
                    • First post
                      Last post

                    168

                    Online

                    12.0k

                    Users

                    17.3k

                    Topics

                    155.2k

                    Posts
                    Copyright © 2012-2024 FOG Project