Hey all,

So I set up Fog 1.2.0 about 6 months ago and am now in rebuild stage.

I just received a new Fiber NIC for my server and am going to be upgrading sometime soon. I have a few questions though.

1. Is there any news about when 1.3.0 will be released?
2. If I rebuild now, can I upgrade later without re-install or will 1.3.0 be clean install only?
3. Is this still windows compatible or should I stick with Ubuntu?

Thanks all.

Hey all,

I’ve been reading and reading and maybe I missed something. I cannot seem to image windows 8.1 with UEFI. From what I gathered, Microsoft has screwed everything up again and fog 1.2.0(along with a list of others) doesn’t support UEFI. Is this correct? Will the new FOG support it?(Trunk)

FOG has everything I need and more. I really dont want to use anything else.

Currently using:
Fog 1.2.0
Ubuntu 12.04lts
Intel server

Hey all,

So I set up Fog 1.2.0 about 6 months ago and am now in rebuild stage.

I just received a new Fiber NIC for my server and am going to be upgrading sometime soon. I have a few questions though.

1. Is there any news about when 1.3.0 will be released?
2. If I rebuild now, can I upgrade later without re-install or will 1.3.0 be clean install only?
3. Is this still windows compatible or should I stick with Ubuntu?

Thanks all.

Thanks Wolfbane,

I am running Fog v1.2.0 on Ubuntu 12.04LTS.

The reason I am rebuilding the master server is I need to switch it to a raid configuration with a swap drive. Currently it is set up in an LVM.

1. Ok, I’ll try it. how else do you replace the images if your main server goes down?
2. Got it. Thanks!
3. Ill have to look into that. Currently we have about 6 TB of storage on the master and about 13 TB on the node. not too worried about storage just yet, just more concerned about the load balancing.

Thanks!

Hi all,

Im having to rebuild my master server and am curoius on how to go about this without loosing my all my images.

Currently I have a storage node that has all the backups/synced images on it. So here is what I am looking at doing.

Question 1: Can I rebuild my server, set the storage node as master, wait for the images to sync/transfer to the main server, then switch the main server back to master.

Does this work? has anyone tried it?

Question 2: When I transfer the server/node over to my corporate network, they will be on different subnets. I read the Wiki and it stated they had to be on the same. Is this still an issue and why do they need to be on the same?

Question 3: The benefits of a storage node are not very clear, can someone please clarify what the benefits are besides data redundancy and increased queue size by 10? Has anyone really tested the load balancing?

Thanks in advance!

I am using ubuntu 12.04.2 on both.
as far as the image format, Multi part - single disk.(not sure if thats what you mean)
time start to finish, fog was about 4 minutes slower. I don’t have exact time.

Fog is saving me time and headache though on hostname changing. Love that feature.

ok, so here is what I did.

I had clonezilla installed on our server. (Dell Poweredge R710)
Downloaded the image to my host PC (Dell optiplex 9010)
Took the screenshot while it was downloading.

Next:
Took a few day and wiped clonezilla out.
Installed Fog onto our server(same server/hardware no changes)(Dell Poweredge R710)
used fogprep/fogcrypt/fogservice on the image just downloaded from clonezilla
uploaded the image to fogserver
downloaded right back to same host pc to test the image/server(Dell optiplex 9010)
took screenshot after about the 3rd time downloading to same pc for testing/debug of server.
All speeds were the same 3-4GB/min

I have the Pigz set to 6 right now. Im not worried about space as we have 4TB in the server and are adding another 16TB.
would it hurt to turn Pigz to 0 if I dont need all the compression?

Hi all,

can anyone tell me if this is normal.

Im using the same setup in both situations.
Same Host
Same Server
Same image
same NIC
Same OS

Clonezilla, I am able to download at an average of 7.55GB/min

Fog, I am able to download at an average of 4.88GB/min

Is this normal? does Fog run slower than Clonezilla?

They both use Partclone so shouldn’t they be the same?

What am I doing wrong?
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ok, still no luck.

I install a clean/fresh windows 7 OS and then installed Fogservice/prep/crypt

All the setting are correct. Disabled ‘task reboot’ globally and for host settings. Enabled ‘task reboot’.

Bios is set to WOL/magic packet

Thought I read somewhere, do I need to set up a generic user specific for FOG?
Does the host PC need to be in sleep state or idle for x number of time?

FOG v 1.1.2
Ubuntu 12.04

I was able to get a .bat file to run in the snapin to reboot the PC. (shutdown -r)

Thanks for all this help Tom,

I did as you asked with no luck. This is what its saying again when I create an image task after the reboot reset.

7/17/2014 11:15 PM FOG::SnapinClient Module is active…
7/17/2014 11:15 PM FOG::SnapinClient No Tasks found for: F8:B1:56:A4:55:A9
7/17/2014 11:21 PM FOG::SnapinClient Attempting to connect to fog server…
7/17/2014 11:21 PM FOG::SnapinClient Module is active…
7/17/2014 11:21 PM FOG::SnapinClient No Tasks found for: F8:B1:56:A4:55:A9
7/17/2014 11:26 PM FOG::SnapinClient Attempting to connect to fog server…
7/17/2014 11:26 PM FOG::SnapinClient Module is active…
7/17/2014 11:26 PM FOG::SnapinClient Will NOT perform any snapin tasks because an image task exists for this host.
7/17/2014 11:31 PM FOG::SnapinClient Attempting to connect to fog server…
7/17/2014 11:31 PM FOG::SnapinClient Module is active…
7/17/2014 11:31 PM FOG::SnapinClient Will NOT perform any snapin tasks because an image task exists for this host.
7/17/2014 11:36 PM FOG::SnapinClient Attempting to connect to fog server…
7/17/2014 11:36 PM FOG::SnapinClient Module is active…
7/17/2014 11:36 PM FOG::SnapinClient Will NOT perform any snapin tasks because an image task exists for this host.