Driver directory replication

[FlareImp]

I have a Driver folder in our image directory that is very large, is there a way to set replication to sync only specific drivers to specific sites? I tried setting up an “image” and pointed it to the specific folder (Image Path: Images/Drivers/Optiplex7400) inside the driver folder put it never replicated.

Currently the Driver folder is replicating 110GBs out to all of our sites when only a few folders really need to be copied.

[Sebastian Roth]

@flareimp said in Driver directory replication:

I tried setting up an “image” and pointed it to the specific folder (Image Path: Images/Drivers/Optiplex7400) inside the driver folder put it never replicated.

Please check the log file (/var/log/fog/fogreplicator.log) to see why it wouldn’t replicate this particular path.

As well let us know the FOG version, LInux OS and version you currently use.

Edit: There is a related topic from 2017, kinda sounds like this was not solved back then: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9158/replicating-drivers-across-fog-servers

[FlareImp]

@sebastian-roth Fog Version is 1.5.9, Ubuntu 20.04.03
Below is what the Log says

[10-19-22 1:17:26 pm] | Image Name: Drivers Latitude3500
[10-19-22 1:17:26 pm] * Not syncing Image between groups
[10-19-22 1:17:26 pm] | Image Name: Drivers Latitude3500
[10-19-22 1:17:26 pm] | File or path cannot be reached.

[Sebastian Roth]

@FlareImp I don’t have a setup to test this kind of replication right now. So I can only go by what I see in the code. It looks like it should be able to find and replicate sub sub directories. Maybe the space in the name is causing a problem?

Can you take a screenshot of the image settings of this driver entry and post here?

[FlareImp]

@sebastian-roth I tried removing the space and just giving it the name of the folder itself. I am still seeing “File or path cannot be reached”.

[Sebastian Roth]

@FlareImp I had another look at the code and found why it’s not replicating. Unfortunately it strips down the image path using a basename() call in FOG 1.5.9 (code ref). So if you set image path to (/images/)Drivers/Latitude3500 it actually tries to sync /images/Latitude3500.

I changed this behavior in FOG dev-branch as I think it’s a useful feature to be able to replicate single sub sub directories.

For FOG 1.5.9 you have three options:

1. Manually implement the simple fix:
   • Edit /var/www/fog/lib/service/fogservice.class.php on your server, line 439.
   • Remove the basename() call (don’t forget to remove one of the parentheses at the end as wel). See the change commited to github - only the line 439 change is needed, ignore the rest.
   • Restart the services (systemctl restart FOGImageReplicator.service; systemctl restart FOGSnapinReplicator.service) and check the log file again.
2. If you are good with bash scripting you can come up with a script to replicate that stuff using rsync to match your needs.
3. Don’t use sub sub directories but instead flat out your drivers directory, e.g. use (/images/)Latitude3500_drivers.
4. Update to FOG dev-branch.
5. Wait for FOG 1.5.10 to be release - probably a few more weeks down the road.

[FlareImp]

@sebastian-roth Thank you for all your help. I will give it a try.

[FlareImp]

The change worked great, Thank you!!!