clonezilla Clonezilla wont use 10gbe ethernet - Only getting 1 gigabit speed for clone and recovery.

When cloning, my speeds are not exceeding 1 Gbit/s with 10 Gbe cards. I have also tested bonding, since they are dual port cards on either side, and this has not provided any benefit. but I think more importantly, it would be good to see the card's 10 Gbe performance be utilised. They normally work in Linux and Windows without any extra drivers required.

I have intel 10 Gbe NIC's in a z8 workstation and in a Qnap tvs 671 NAS. During normal operation with nfs mounts, and smb tests I can achieve around 400 MBytes/s read and write. clonezilla wont go much past 100MB/s

Oct 30 '18 07:10 queglay

This is Linux kernel and hardware support issue. Which version of Clonezilla live did you try? Have you tried the testing Clonezilla live? It comes with newer Linux kernel so your hardware might be supported better.

Steven

Nov 18 '18 07:11 stevenshiau

Thanks for the reply Steven. I tried a few different iso's, but this one was the first that I had success with - clonezilla-live-20180812-bionic-amd64.iso

Nov 19 '18 02:11 queglay

OK, thanks for your feedback. I am closing this now.

Dec 02 '18 04:12 stevenshiau

apologies, what i mean was that was the only iso that I was able to clone with at all. but the issue is still present.

Dec 03 '18 04:12 queglay

In that case, please try Clonezilla live 20181128-disco amd64 version: https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php It comes with newer Linux kernel so your NIC might be well supported.

Dec 03 '18 06:12 stevenshiau

Do you use compression? Default parallel gzip gives 150 MB/s at most on restore on my hardware. Try to disable compression in advanced parameters.

Feb 14 '19 22:02 ValdikSS

Thanks for the suggestion. Though I'm running another test now without compression. It's pulling around 80 MB/s

Mar 08 '19 06:03 queglay