@Sebastian-Roth
Yes, very much under time pressure in the business at the moment… I had to rebuild another Fog server… and I uploaded my 2 main images onto it manually… so I didnt use any of the backup procedure.
This is all a consequence of being forced by company circumstances to run things into production without any testing time…
the joy of decisions being made above your head and you just being told to get on with it!

Has anyone successfully upgraded their Fog server?
Getting the nag message about 14.04 not in LTS anymore and pushing to do an upgrade.

Do I need to shut any services down before initiating this upgrade?
tried it once and it seemed Apache broke, so back to 14.04

@Sebastian-Roth
Yes, very much under time pressure in the business at the moment… I had to rebuild another Fog server… and I uploaded my 2 main images onto it manually… so I didnt use any of the backup procedure.
This is all a consequence of being forced by company circumstances to run things into production without any testing time…
the joy of decisions being made above your head and you just being told to get on with it!

The wiki is out of date for backup process?
Has anyone documentd the process for my version?

I have a second fog server with some images on it… they fail to push because I havent copied over the sql table from the original Fog server.

So just need
copy sql from first FOG copy over to second Fog

cheers
all

Just need the commands to copy

Personally, I would setup a test FOG environment just get FOG working.
I was in the same boat quite a number of weeks ago.
Setting up FOG on your established network will be tough to get right.
Use the standalone approach firstly.
It probably took me 40 to 50 hours of work to get a solution.
Last week using my Fog server , I was able to image 50 PCs in Win7 Sysprepped mode ready to join the domain.
My breakthru was seeing FOG actually working when I used a VMbox setup on my own PC following a YouTube tutorial.

good luck

When I can, I will be copying the sql table over to the new server.
I will update as to success when trying to push an image out.

Do I have import/export on 1.2.0? didnt think I did…

anyway, done some digging…

if I do the backup command mysqldump … etc
and then do a restore with the set of commands as in Fog Wiki
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Restoring_FOG_from_Backup

that should do it also?

I have copied over 2 important images from a FOG server to a new server.
It seems I need to have the images table re created or copied as well?
Is there a method of doing this?
The new Fog server is reporting the existence of the images in Storage and I have recreated the image names in Image Management.
A test download failed… but was just too quick to note any meaningful error message…

Ubuntu 14.04
Fog 1.2.0

I am installing Windows 7 Enterprise on an HP 280G1 with its 500gb hdd.
As this is not a ‘factory install’ I am aware it is presenting issues after uploading to FOG and then deploying to a new client.
It can fail to find the MBR.

A vanilla FOG image with HP Win7Pro out of the box presents no problems whatsoever.

Are there any best practices for FOG… re PARTITION sizes for example…?

I am making sure the credentials match like for like from the working FOG to the new one.
I moved the PC image up one level… but still not showing in the WEB gui… did permissions …
the screenshot shows a correct output this time s it does on my working VMbox FOG:

At the moment I am uploading the PC image again.
Will update progress