The systems would come back with an error. Unfortunately I didn’t document what it was…I assumed the problem was that I removed the original images. The server only has 1tb of space and I still have several computers I want to have imaged before the inevitable happens.

My fog server was working great except I had a need for more space. I created a share and move the files to another server along with a dump of the sql db…here where things go wrong.
I deleted the image files to clear space and then set a task to image my domain servers again. That process must have caused some sort of corruption in the database ( I’m guessing wildly here)
after some thought I deleted the databases and decided to start over then tried it again. The corruption was still there. So I decided to do an reinstall of fog…I did some other stuff also but it is …in a fog… now (sorry I couldn’t help myself). Anyway I follow the instructions these instructions:
#Uninstall FOG

#remove service
sudo rm /etc/init.d/FOGImageReplicator
sudo rm /etc/init.d/FOGMulticastManager
sudo rm /etc/init.d/FOGScheduler

#delete fog database
sudo mysql
#(or ‘sudo mysql -p’ if you set a root password for mysql)
drop database fog;
quit

#Remove files
sudo rm -rf /var/www/fog
sudo rm -rf /opt/fog
sudo rm -rf /tftpboot
sudo rm -rf /images

#delete fog system user
sudo userdel fog

rebooted the server and reinstalled fog thinking that I would just re-register the computers and connect them to the new images.

What is happening is now the computers are transmitting the images to the fog server, but they are not registed.
I suspect there is something that is written on the computers to do this.

Thanks for reading,

Damian

ahhhh it is a mirrored drive. That brings me to other questions. How do I select one of the drives? On my new server (windows 2012) I have a raid 5 (3 drives)…

Thanks for the information

Thanks for pointing that out to me. I assumed since it was the same computers I’ve imaged before and the space was not a problem then and now it seems to be a problem …and when I looked at the image folders and saw:

07/10/2013 11:45 PM 512 d2.mbr
07/10/2013 11:45 PM 180,318,726,114 d1p1.img
07/11/2013 04:57 AM 180,318,738,292 d2p1.img
07/10/2013 04:55 PM 512 d1.mbr

Did I somehow make two images? I’ll check the wiki to see what is going on. Thanks for setting me on the right path.

Thanks for the information.
I’m currently running fog.32 on ubuntu server 12.4
Linux onyxserver1 3.2.0-51-generic-pae #77-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 24 20:40:32 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

Here is the information on my 2012 server

Item Code Brand MFR# Item Description

1 CUSTOMSERSERIAL CYBERTRONPC Custom Configured Server
2 PRC-INT-XEE312J INTEL BX80637E31270V2 Xeon E3-1270V2 3.50GHz C4 1155 RET
3 MBD-SPM-X9SCLBA SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCL-B 1155 V 4D3 M32 2GL R MATX
4 MEM-STT-4GEE SUPERTALENT W1600EB4GM 4GB DDR3 1600 PC3-12800 ECC
5 MEM-STT-2GEM SUPERTALENT W1333EA2GH 2GB DDR3 1333 PC3-10600 ECC
7 HDR-WDG-500S2K WESTERN DIGITAL WD5003ABYX 500GB SATA2 7200RPM 64MB Ent.
8 AD-RAID5 RAID 5 Array (Striped with Parity)
9 CDR-LG-DWS124F LG GH24NS95B DVD±RW DL 24x SATA Black
10 AD-VIDEOPCIE2 pci-express Onboard Video Graphics

Due to space limitations I would like to set my fog to overwrite the client image every I upload it on the server.

Good Morning All,
I’ve been using FOG for a few months now and have things working pretty good. Thanks for the support here on the forums. I’m back to see if there is an issue with imaging a RAID drive. I looked around the WIKI but nothing stands out about the subject. I’ve got and eval of win 2012 I’m setting up on a Raid5. The inventory goes ok but when I try to image it I get unable to move /images/dev/mac address to /images/name-of-image.

Has anyone successfully imaged a Raid drive with a hardware controller?

Thanks,

Thanks for the response Kelly,
I don’t understand how fog is going to know to write the images to the new drive.

These are notes from Chuck Syperski’s video at [media=youtube]69gJvHjTKNQ[/media]

add new hard drive for storage

find out device name
[CODE]#sudo dmesg[/CODE]
or
[CODE]#sudo fdisk -l[/CODE]

partition disk my on /dev/sdb
[CODE] #sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
n
p
l
<enter>
<enter>
t
83
w[/CODE]
format filesystem
[CODE]#sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1[/CODE]
move /images to /imagesOld
[CODE] #sudo mv /images/ /imagesOld[/CODE]
make new /images directory
[CODE] #sudo mkdir /images[/CODE]
mount new harddirve /dev/sdb1 to /images
[CODE] #sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /images[/CODE]
copy files to new harddrive
[CODE] #sudo rsync -av = =progress /imagesOld/ /images[/CODE]
change permissions
[CODE] #sudo chmod -R 777 /images[/CODE]
auto mount the new hard drive use UUID
[CODE] #sudo blkid[/CODE]
[CODE] #sudo vlm /etc/fstab[/CODE]
UUID=<UUID_of_you_nw_partition> /images ext4 errors=remount=ro 0 1
reboot

I’m just journaling this now as I dont have access to my server just yet. I’m not 100% certain every thing is correct

I have 4 external drives I can switch out via a USB connector.
I would like to use them as a storage for my images. For example:
1st for week 1 images
2nd for week 2 images
3rd for week 3 images
4th for week 4 images
I would like to attach an external drive and have that week’s images saved to the drive.

I want to use the fog to back up our erp server. My plan is to backup to an USB external hdd, then rotate with different hdd…then another…then another.

I’m very new to fog and ubuntu. This is my 3rd instance of installing everything…so I’m not afraid to start over again.

Thanks

I love this actually working with the device instead of just punching buttons…reminds me of the good old days of DOS. I look forward to working with everyone.

btw…after all of that I decided to put it on a different box. I would have loved to troubleshot why it wasn’t working correctly, but a deadline was looming so I killed it and reimaged the workstations again…took far less time than the first.

Mid-Wisconsin, USA

That didn’t work…a little more searching I found:

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static . . . dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

An edit, save, restart later it works!

Thanks for the help

first part went without a hitch…Thank you.

When I bring up the resolv.conf file it is populated with two comment lines:

Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND – YOUR CHANGE WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

I’ll remove the dhcp-client and restart the networking and see what happens…

a command line.

It is a bit more complicated than that I am afraid…the only thing that comes up is a prompt on the server. I can log into it but that is about it. I’m thinking it will involve some sort of sudo editing of a file somewhere.

btw the video I followed to get it installed is here: [media=youtube]UqJ3GicmGG0[/media]

[SIZE=6][B][SIZE=3]linux ubuntu 12.04,12.10 [/SIZE][/B][/SIZE]

Hi Everyone,
I just started using FOG and with the help of some videos was able to get it setup and running…Unfortunately I know nada about the system. I somehow have it setup the get and ip address from my win2k3 server. How do I configure it to use a static ip address?

Thanks…