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    • RobertDR
      RobertD @Sebastian Roth
      last edited by

      @Sebastian-Roth We are actually trying that right now, however we are struggling to mount it with write access. It keeps giving us “Read-only file system” when we try something like touch /imagesinit/userbackup/text.txt.

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      • EduardoTSeoaneE
        EduardoTSeoane
        last edited by

        I do it.

        Creating an rw nfs share and rsyncing folders from fog.postinit.

        You can do it to fog or to another file server.

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        • george1421G
          george1421 Moderator @RobertD
          last edited by george1421

          @RobertD You can install NFS on ms windows. I have a proof of concept on how to turn windows box into a fog storage node (not really recommended, but I wanted to see if I could do it). The point it is shows you how the setup the permissions for the nfs share so that FOS can mount it.

          https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6941/windows-server-as-fog-storage-node-proof-of-concept-blog

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          • RobertDR
            RobertD
            last edited by

            Not sure why it isn’t working.

            1. We created a new directory within our /images folder on the fog server called userbackup.
            2. We set permissions with chmod 777 on this folder.
            3. Booting a host with a deploy debug task.
            4. From the host we tried the following
            mkdir /userbackup
            mount -o nolock,proto=tcp,rw "1.2.3.4:/images/userbackup" /userbackup
            touch /userbackup/test.txt
            "This is a read-only file system"
            

            Are we missing something in our mount statement?

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            • george1421G
              george1421 Moderator @RobertD
              last edited by george1421

              @RobertD Oh that’s a easy one. That is because /images is read-only at the share level. That is why fog uploads to /images/dev which is read-write at the share level.

              showmount -e 127.0.0.1 might show this or /etc/exports will.

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              • RobertDR
                RobertD
                last edited by

                So we should be mounting to a sub directory in images/dev…

                Export list for 172.31.16.155:
                /images/dev *
                /images     *
                
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                • EduardoTSeoaneE
                  EduardoTSeoane @RobertD
                  last edited by EduardoTSeoane

                  @RobertD

                  add it to /etc/exports as an rw share
                  then execute as root

                  echo "/images/userbackup *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2)" >> /etc/exports
                  exportfs -a
                  systemctl restart rpcbind # or something like i dont remember de name exactly
                  systemctl restart ntfs-server
                  

                  Try it if you can.

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                  • george1421G
                    george1421 Moderator @EduardoTSeoane
                    last edited by

                    @EduardoTSeoane said in Backing up user profiles/data before deploying image:

                    add it to /etc/exports as an rw share

                    You can do that just watch your IDs and pick the next integer.

                    something like

                    /images/userbackup *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2)
                    

                    Then an

                    exportfs -a
                    showmount -e 127.0.0.1
                    

                    should show the new share.

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                    • S
                      Sebastian Roth Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @EduardoTSeoane said in Backing up user profiles/data before deploying image:

                      echo “/images/userbackup *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2)”

                      Guess you meant:

                      echo "/images/userbackup *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=2)" >> /etc/exports
                      ...
                      

                      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                      • RobertDR
                        RobertD
                        last edited by

                        Wow you guys are a great help. We were looking at folder permissions that whole time when it was the share permissions.

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                        • EduardoTSeoaneE
                          EduardoTSeoane @Sebastian Roth
                          last edited by

                          @Sebastian-Roth
                          yes, i want to say that i correct it in the post

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