Thanks x23 for the response.

unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be working. I set the BIOS to wake on magic packet. I have the FOG service installed.

Does the computer need to be in sleep state or can I be on the Desktop for it to auto reboot and start the imaging?

Sorry, Specs:

Server:
Ubuntu 12.04LTS
Dell XPS with dual NIC

Hosts:
Dell OptiPlex 990
Windows 7 64bit

Hi All,

Things are starting to come together and look amazing with the FOG server setup. I just need to figure out the next step. I’ve searched the forums everywhere and cant find exactly what im looking for. So here goes.

I am looking for when I create a task in the server interface, that it will send a reboot command to the PC to reboot. I thought this was already installed but cannot seem to get it working. so here’s what I do.

1. From the server, Host Management > List All Hosts
2. Select ‘upload’ on desired host (which is Windows 7)
3. Schedule Instant Deployment > Create Upload Task
4. Wait and nothing happens.

All hosts have been ran with FOGPrep, FOGService, and FOGCrypt

Once the task is created, should it not automatically reboot itself and start the image process?

Ok, so this image took 15 minutes and compressed down to 19gb so it is working.

I think it was just that image I was using. On to the next!

Thank you guys for all the help. I really appreciate it.

most of the space is videos I believe. Which shouldn’t be able to compress much…

Im trying to image a different system atm to see if its different.

I installed a clean build only the same PC and now uploading to the FOG server for testing.

This only has 42gb of used space(OS + drivers + IT Security services)

I just looked and the used space on that drive was 169gb

So it must be taking an image of all the used data and shaving off the unused portion.

But this means it would not be compressing it. Is that right?

Ok, so I just re-installed from scratch again.

I’m using Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop 64bit w/ FOG 1.1.2
Followed the wiki install
Cloned my first PC and still no change.

I used Ubuntu 14.04 in the first run.

Still have large images. 160gb

Question: When I create the image in the web interface, does the ‘Operating System’ dropdown make a difference?
Should I set it to the server OS or the image OS?

Thanks for the reply Tom,

The OS’s based around factory install. is there a way to increase the imaging speed and shrink the image size itself?

Currently, we can clone a PC around 10 minutes + -. Can this be achieved through FOG?

I saw an article to disable gzip, which will increase transfer speeds but how does it play into image size?

Does image compression change when switching from windows to linux imaging?

Hi all,

I’m new here and am looking to convert over from Clonezilla. FOG seems to have just about everything I’m looking for.

here’s my questions though.

Why are the images so large? Clonezilla images are only about 20gb.

Is there a way to decrease these sizes? My first image took about an hour to upload and was 157gb in size.
What am I doing wrong? Im using ‘Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk’

I know its not our network as we are on a 10gig network and clonezilla will max it just fine.

is there a script I can install to send a shutdown -r (reboot) command to the PC so we don’t have to manually reboot?

Can I set this up with multiple NIC’s or is it only able to use 1?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my not knowing. Been reading forums for 2 days straight now