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@Bristow-0 Is this a physical computer or VM? Is it possible to add a new storage device to the FOG server?

Something to understand that the fog database that lists the images is disconnected from the raw data file. You can move the image files to some place else, it won’t impact the FOG UI until you try to deploy a previously captured image.

Thanks a lot @rodluz !

I took your script and adapted it. I use it directly on my FOG server, which simplifies things a bit. I also changed the mail to a notification sent to my smartphone with ntfy, which I find easy to use.

I also mounted my NAS share in NFS directly on /mnt/FOGBackups.

Here’s my script:

#!/bin/bash fogServerAddress="172.X.Y.Z" # Change to actual FOG server address backupDate=$(date +"%Y%m%d") backupDir="/mnt/FOGBackups/$backupDate" backupDirImages="/mnt/FOGBackups/images" snapinLocation="/opt/fog/snapins" reportLocation="/var/www/fog/lib/reports" imageLocation="/images" failedBackupDB=0 failedBackupSnapins=0 failedBackupReports=0 failedBackupImages=0 [[ ! -d $backupDir ]] && mkdir -p $backupDir/{mysql,snapins,reports,logs} >/dev/null 2>&1 [[ ! -d $backupDir/mysql || $backupDir/snapins || $backupDir/reports || $backupDir/logs ]] && mkdir -p $backupDir/{mysql,snapins,reports,logs} >/dev/null 2>&1 backupDB() { wget --no-check-certificate --post-data="nojson=1" -O $backupDir/mysql/fog.sql "http://$fogServerAddress/fog/management/export.php?type=sql" 2>>$backupDir/logs/error.log 1>>$backupDir/logs/progress.log 2>&1 stat=$? if [[ ! $stat -eq 0 ]]; then echo "Failed to backup database!" failedBackupDB=1 else echo "Database backed up." fi } backupSnapins() { cp -r $snapinLocation $backupDir/snapins/ 2>>$backupDir/logs/error.log 1>>$backupDir/logs/progress.log 2>&1 stat=$? if [[ ! $stat -eq 0 ]]; then echo "Failed to backup snapins!" failedBackupSnapins=1 else echo "Snapins backed up." fi } backupReports() { cp -r $reportLocation $backupDir/reports/ 2>>$backupDir/logs/error.log 1>>$backupDir/logs/progress.log 2>&1 stat=$? if [[ ! $stat -eq 0 ]]; then echo "Failed to backup reports!" failedBackupReports=1 else echo "Reports backed up." fi } backupImages() { rsync -auv $imageLocation $backupDirImages 2>>$backupDir/logs/error.log 1>>$backupDir/logs/progress.log 2>&1 stat=$? if [[ ! $stat -eq 0 ]]; then echo "Failed to backup images!" failedBackupImages=1 else echo "Images backed up." fi } checkForFailures() { echo "Running checkForFailures()" if [[ $failedBackupDB -eq 1 ]]; then message="$message \nFailed to backup database." fi if [[ $failedBackupSnapins -eq 1 ]]; then message="$message \nFailed to backup snapins." fi if [[ $failedBackupReports -eq 1 ]]; then message="$message \nFailed to backup reports." fi if [[ $failedBackupImages -eq 1 ]]; then message="$message \nFailed to backup images." fi } sendNotif() { echo "Running sendNotif()" if [[ ! -z $message ]]; then { curl -d "FOG Backup Failed\n $message" ntfy.sh/XYZATEHFJICH } else curl -d "FOG Backup Successful!" ntfy.sh/XYZATEHFJICH fi } backupDB backupSnapins backupReports backupImages checkForFailures sendNotif

Thank you for your answers. I’ll give it a try and let you know!

@bristow-0 Ok so what I’m working on is this rough outline of a script.

If you run this command on your target computer it should return the uuid of the swap partition.
blkid | grep swap | awk '{print $2}'

So if we start building a script to automate the process it might start to look like this

!#/bin/bash uuid=$(blkid | grep swap | awk '{print $2}') if grep -Fxq "RESUME=UUID" /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume then # if found replace with new uuid sed -i 's/^RESUME=UUID.*$/RESUME=${uuid}/' /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume else # if not found just append command to config file echo "RESUME=${uuid}" >>/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume update-initramfs -u

This script would need to be executed on first boot of the target computer is what I’m thinking.

@sebastian-roth Yeahh, it works ! Thanks again !

@george1421 said in Which USB 3.0 ethernet adapter?:

@bristow-0 OK I can say I’ve never heard of an “LDLC Aurore” computer before. It must be a local French brand. If you want to pxe boot then you will need to get a usb network adapter that LDLC computer’s support.

This is Clevo. The good thing is that they provide PCs without OS.

Now for a uefi computer making the computer boot iPXE from the flash usb drive is pretty easy. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6350/usb-boot-uefi-client-into-fog-menu-easy-way Understand that “trick” only works for uefi based computers. BIOS computer’s can’t boot using this method.

Cool, thanks a lot !!

@Sebastian-Roth you put me on the track!

The bios was configured in legacy bios first, I switched to uefi first and it works!

Thank you!

OK @tom-elliott, keep me posted, I’d love to see this site available in French. It looks more serious for the decision makers…

@Bristow-0 As well question arises if both the workstation and VM are in the same mode - legacy BIOS or UEFI. With ProxMox you use KVM for this I suppose.

@Bristow-0 Great work!! Thank you very much for updating all the translations.

@Bristow-0 Has this ever worked before? I remember that others had issues with domain join in a Samba domain. Search the forums for that.

As well you might take a look at the fog-client log (usually in C:\fog.log) and post the relevant part here.

Thanks @tom-elliott . So, if I understand correctly, I only use the first one and it must not be encrypted, am I right?

I’ve added some more steps that should avoid those errors.

I’ve updated the chown command in the wiki. The user fogproject is something that came about after this article was written. The user used to be just fog

@huecuva said in Fog on Proxmox ?:

I’m just having issues booting my HTPC from ipxe for some reason I can’t figure out.

Please start a new thread so we can discuss