Copy an entire HDD
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You could always do a “raw” image, but it’d take a long time
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The best way is just selecting “multiple partition - single disk” and “Resizeable”.
Because for the use that you are wanting, I will guarantee you that you will not replace a failed HDD with the exact same sized HDD. RAW is a bad choice for this usage.
Also, I’m not sure that FOG is for you. Clonezilla is likely better suited for this purpose.
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Is there any plans for FOG to move in this direction anytime in the near future? I have heard about an upcoming release, but not sure about the new features.
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@ben.walker What do you mean?
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I finally got it. I had to turn UEFI Network Boot Stack on in the BIOS. It has now imaged the drive. The only problem I have is can these images be compressed in any way?
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@ben.walker said:
I finally got it. I had to turn UEFI Network Boot Stack on in the BIOS. It has now imaged the drive. The only problem I have is can these images be compressed in any way?
Thank you,
BenYes, that is supposed to happen during image upload.
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@Wayne, I am under image creation the following is the only fields I see. I am currently running FOG 1.2.0. Image Name, Image Description, Storage Group, Operating System, Image Path, Image Type
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Screenshot?
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Here is the screen shot of what I see.
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The compression setting might be located in a different spot in 1.2.0.
Look around in FOG Configuration -> FOG Settings.
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Is this it?
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According to this thread: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/3076/changing-compression-levels
Yes, that’s it.
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9 is the highest setting and the original default, 6 is the current default setting in SVN.
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Thank you, I am not sure my first image was 433Gig and my second was 45Gig. I did nothing different. I am glad to see the file size has decreased.
Ben
