Posts made by ITSolutions

If you are using a script for driver installs you can add “net stop Fog service” to the beginning of it and then “net start Fog service” at the end.

My solution is the script that is included with FOG for back up, modified quite a bit and then made a cron entry.

I attached the script I use, it is set up to auto save to /images/databasebackup/ and then creates folders by date for multiple backups, but you can change the location easily within the script. I use the /images directory since I usually [SIZE=2]have it mounted on a different drive from the OS so this creates a [/SIZE]redundant[SIZE=2] spot. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=2]I then schedule 2 cron jobs running the script with no images backing up and one with the images being backed up(I back up the images mostly in the case of accidently over writing and image so I can restore it to an the original, not for disaster recovery.) I backup the database, snapins, and reports every week (but is small enough I am thinking about changing that to everyday). The second cron job is the full backup that I run once a month. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=2]This script can easily be modified to only backup the parts you want by remarking out the sections that are not needed. So it is very flexable for the different environments you maybe be dealing with.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2]I find this the most efficient as so you have the most current database you can and as I have been able to setup a FOG server in a couple hours not too bad. If your FOG is running on a VM you could set it up as you want take a snap shot and then if issues arise simply restore it and then restore the database and you should be good to go.[/SIZE]

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/327_fogbackup.sh.txt?:”]fogbackup.sh.txt[/url]

I have set up 5 FOG .32 systems, all running Ubuntu 12.04. They all worked without an issue and I would recommend that you use 12.04 as it is a current LTS release of Ubuntu and will be supported for 5 yrs, so until 2017. This should avoid having to link to old repos. I personally have used the desktop version most of the time, simply due to the moderate requirement differences and sometimes easier when I am assisting a newbie configure the machine. But even with the server edition I had no troubles.

I found this patch on the source forge page, it says it is for .29, but not sure if it was implemented into the newer versions. But figured it was worth a shot

[url]http://sourceforge.net/p/freeghost/patches/34/[/url]