Switching NAS servers
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Good morning,
I worked with you guys to get my fog server up and running on a Synology box a month or two ago and thank you so much. My school district has purchased a new Synology box strictly for the FOG server and I would like to swap the storage. I wasn’t sure if since the names are the same if I deleted the old one the FOG server will just pick everything up naturally or if I had to do something to get it to recognize the new Synology box. The NAS server does have a different IP address so I wasn’t sure what had to be done.
Thank you for any help you can offer and just so you are aware and for those who remember, my company now sees that everything works fine and is willing to work with you guys to make sure everything runs smoothly!
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@szecca1 said:
@Wayne-Workman Also the test.txt file is in the /images folder on the FOG server but not on the Synology box, just for your information
You should be altering the commands so that you are testing the synology box. The test file should exist on the Synology box.
When the directory successfully mounts via NFS, you shouldn’t get any messages at all.
Have you updated to the latest yet?
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@Wayne-Workman Also the test.txt file is in the /images folder on the FOG server but not on the Synology box, just for your information
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@Wayne-Workman When I now type them in its not giving me an error just a list of file system specific -o flags. After that I try to test the download and upload and i get an error message "cp: cannot stat ‘/images/test.txt’: no such file or directory
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@szecca1 I just reviewed the commands and changed one of them. Can you look at that and try again?
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@Wayne-Workman Yes I followed those commands, it didnt say that it did but it didnt give an error message when I typed those commands
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@szecca1 Did you create the local /image and /image/dev folders?
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@Wayne-Workman Ok I got in but when I follow these instructions:
Next, we will mount to FOG’s remote image directories like this:mount -o nolock,proto=tcp,rsize=32768,intr,noatime $storage /images
mount -o nolock,proto=tcp,rsize=32768,intr,noatime 10.0.0.3:/images/dev/ /images/devI am getting an error " mount: mounting 10.1.0.227:/volume1/FOG/Images/dev/ on /images failed: invalid argument
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@Wayne-Workman Good morning, I just tried doing what you sent me and I created the text file but when I boot my machine it just boots to windows. Theres no options on the screen like the instructions say there should be
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@szecca1 said:
@Wayne-Workman https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/NAS_Storage_Node
Or should I follow these instructions?
Those instructions have been made somewhat obsolete with the new FTP Path feature.
I’d say run through the troubleshooting found here to see what your issue with NFS is:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_NFSI’d pay special attention to the testing NFS bits at the top.
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@Wayne-Workman https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/NAS_Storage_Node
Or should I follow these instructions?
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@Wayne-Workman Should I delete the storage node and start over?
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@Wayne-Workman I just did that and still getting the same error message. Maybe it still thinks I am trying to give the old Synology box those rights? Is there a way to check if in Linux, the IP address is the right Synology box?
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@szecca1 I don’t think the mntcheck files are the issue. If FOG couldn’t find them, it’d say it couldn’t find them. Your problem happens before the check - it fails during mounting.
I’d ensure that your /images directory on the new synology box is being shared via NFS with 777 permissions on it.
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@Wayne-Workman I did that and that file is not showing up on my Synology server. I am not sure if this is what is causing my issue but I am still getting that error message. I am not sure what I did wrong
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@szecca1 the .mntcheck file is just a blank file. FOG merely checks that it exists - hence the name mntcheck. If FOG can see a file named that, then FOG knows that NFS has been mounted correctly.
To create this file, just issue the touch command in the images and dev directories.
touch .mntcheck
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@Wayne-Workman I feel like I am back to the beginning where you guys helped me fix this a few months ago. I still am getting the same error or fatal error failed to mount NFS volume. I followed some things on the wiki page but maybe I am missing something. Any thoughts? I have a feeling it has to do with the fact that the .mntcheck is not on the new synology box but I can’t figure out how to get it there.
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@Wayne-Workman haha yea I was hoping to just change the IP address and it would work. But I just updated the GIT and still getting the same issue.
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@szecca1 Can’t skip steps
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_trunk#GitAnd you’re supposed to change /some/local/folder to a folder where you want your git repository stored.
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It fails with this error. And I checked the file path and it should be good. I didn’t have to change that as that was the same for both synology boxes.
