partclone quiet option

[techathan]

hi

i experiencing the following issue

i use partclone as backup solution from an lvm snapshot.
when i create an image using partclone like the following

partclone.ext3 -c -s /dev/hda1 -o hda1.img
the remaining time for creating the .img file is about 3 minutes

as soon as i want to use the quiet option

partclone.ext3 -c -q -s /dev/hda1 -o hda1.img

the remaining time becomes over 2hours

when i try to pass the whole through gzip

partclone.ext4 -c -q -s /dev/SERVEUR/system_snap | gzip -5 > /home/system_rescue/system_snap.img.gz

it seems to be a never ending process.

be aware thet without "-q" option partclone with gzip takes about 5 minutes.

also the quiet option makes the partclone logfile too big for beeing readable and freezes the session.

am i doing some thing wrong ? is there a work around.

Kind regards, athan

[Thomas-Tsai]

hi,

thank you for this report, i will give a try recently.
what's your version of partclone?

[Thomas-Tsai]

Hi,

I can't reproduce this issue
there is my log:

A:clone sdb1 to image without quiet, Total Time: 00:00:42
B:clone sdb1 to image with quiet, Total Time: 00:00:40
C:clone sdb1 to pipe with quiet , Total Time: 00:00:18

A:
thomas@ptldev:~/partclone/tests$ sudo time ../src/partclone.extfs -c -s /dev/sdb1 -o /test/target/sdb1.img
Partclone v0.2.67 http://partclone.org
Starting to clone device (/dev/sdb1) to image (/test/target/sdb1.img)
Reading Super Block
Elapsed: 00:00:18, Remaining: 00:00:00, Completed: 100.00%
Total Time: 00:00:18, 100.00% completed!
done!
File system: EXTFS
Device size: 292.0 GB = 71288576 Blocks
Space in use: 4.7 GB = 1156578 Blocks
Free Space: 287.3 GB = 70131998 Blocks
Block size: 4096 Byte
Elapsed: 00:00:42, Remaining: 00:00:00, Completed: 100.00%, Rate: 6.77GB/min,
current block: 71270914, total block: 71288576, Complete: 100.00%
Total Time: 00:00:42, Ave. Rate: 6.8GB/min, 100.00% completed!
Syncing... OK!
Partclone successfully cloned the device (/dev/sdb1) to the image (/test/target/sdb1.img)
Cloned successfully.

B:
thomas@ptldev:~/partclone/tests$ sudo time ../src/partclone.extfs -q -c -s /dev/sdb1 -O /test/target/sdb1.img
Partclone v0.2.67 http://partclone.org
Starting to clone device (/dev/sdb1) to image (/test/target/sdb1.img)
Reading Super Block
Elapsed: 00:00:18, Remaining: 00:00:00, Completed: 100.00%
Total Time: 00:00:18, 100.00% completed!
done!
File system: EXTFS
Device size: 292.0 GB = 71288576 Blocks
Space in use: 4.7 GB = 1156578 Blocks
Free Space: 287.3 GB = 70131998 Blocks
Block size: 4096 Byte
Elapsed: 00:00:40, Remaining: 00:00:00, Completed: 100.00%, Rate: 7.11GB/min,
current block: 71270914, total block: 71288576, Complete: 100.00%
Total Time: 00:00:40, Ave. Rate: 7.1GB/min, 100.00% completed!
Syncing... OK!
Partclone successfully cloned the device (/dev/sdb1) to the image (/test/target/sdb1.img)
Cloned successfully.

C:
thomas@ptldev:~/partclone/tests$ sudo time ../src/partclone.extfs -q -c -s /dev/sdb1 | gzip -5 /test/target/sdb1.img.gz
gzip: /test/target/sdb1.img.gz: No such file or directory
Partclone v0.2.67 http://partclone.org
Starting to clone device (/dev/sdb1) to image (-)
Reading Super Block
Elapsed: 00:00:18, Remaining: 00:00:00, Completed: 100.00%
Total Time: 00:00:18, 100.00% completed!