Hello guys,

I was thinking about using FOG to backup user files. Let me try to explain: The computer comes to me, I do a backup of the files (oftenly removing the HD and doing it physically in my dock) and reinstall the system deploying an image with FOG. If I could use FOG to backup the files through network, it would be great. But I guess the best way to do it would be booting to a Live Linux with a startup script or something… what do you guys think? Could I do it over IPXE (TFTP?)?

So, I gave up on the .IMG and I’m searching for ISOs, which are working perfectly, accordingly to what I need. Thanks for your concern.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I’ll be looking into both and the one which comes to be more viable, I’ll be testing and if succeed, posting here.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I’ll be looking into both and the one which comes to be more viable, I’ll be testing and if succeed, posting here.

Hello guys,

I was thinking about using FOG to backup user files. Let me try to explain: The computer comes to me, I do a backup of the files (oftenly removing the HD and doing it physically in my dock) and reinstall the system deploying an image with FOG. If I could use FOG to backup the files through network, it would be great. But I guess the best way to do it would be booting to a Live Linux with a startup script or something… what do you guys think? Could I do it over IPXE (TFTP?)?

So, I gave up on the .IMG and I’m searching for ISOs, which are working perfectly, accordingly to what I need. Thanks for your concern.

@Tom-Elliott The new one, I tried another ISO version and it worked. The old one, is with us since 2011 if I’m not mistaken. I tried another files *.img like ghost.img and memtest.img but get the same error, it worked in 1.2.0 by the way. Please, don’t bother too much about it, it’s is just an older version of HDD Regenerator that we really like and wanted to stop using USB sticks to boot it.

@Tom-Elliott It is a bootable image used in USB sticks… the newer version is already ISO but shows the same error.

@PerC I get this when deploying Windows images in brand new Hard Drivers, then I boot with a Live Linux and tell where to find the bootable partition.

Hello guys,

First of all, thanks for your amazing work.
I’m using FOG 1.3.5-RC-14, and noticed that I can’t boot small things like HDD Regenerator anymore… I get the title message error (Memdisk: bootstrap too large to load)
There’s my config:

:MENU
menu
item hirens Hirens 15.2
item hddreg111 HDD Regenerator 1.11
item hddreg171 HDD Regenerator 1.71
item acronis Acronis True Imagem 19
item return return to previous menu
choose target && goto ${target} || goto MENU
:hirens
initrd http://${fog-ip}/iso/utils/hirens.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
echo failed to boot
prompt
goto MENU
:hddreg111
initrd http://${fog-ip}/iso/utils/hddreg.img
chain memdisk iso raw ||
echo failed to boot
prompt
goto MENU
:hddreg171
initrd http://${fog-ip}/iso/utils/hddreg171.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
echo failed to boot
prompt
goto MENU
:acronis
initrd http://${fog-ip}/iso/utils/acronis.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
echo failed to boot
prompt
goto MENU
:return
chain ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
prompt
goto MENU

Just so you guys know, Hirens and Acronis boot normally. I probably missing something but I already looked into the other topics about this and couldn’t find anything.

Edited to use Code block.