Has anyone else not been able to visit this site in the past few days?
I could not access the forums nor the wiki at all. I can only imagine the traffic this site sees. (Either that or it is hosted on a Dial up connection)

I propose we pitch in an donate some hosting for this project… I for one would like to be able to check the forum when I need help, and the fact that it is soooo SLOW, just doesn’t seem right…

We have a first class Cloning solution, now it just needs first class hosting.

How does the community feel about this? What about the Fog Team?

Can someone help shed some light here.
This is in reference to Fog v. 0.32

How does one make changes to the fog settings?

I see two options and niether seem to take the changes.

1: Config file: /var/www/fog/commons/config.php

2: In fog web interface
>> Other Information >> Fog Settings

I have made changes to one, and its not reflected in the other.
So, is one pointless? do they work together somehow?

for instance, I wanted to change the TFTP server address… I tried in the config file… no luck… I then edited the settings with no success either.

[B]So do I have to restart FOG everytime I make a change?[/B] Someone please make this clearer.

EDIT: See Last post for solution
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Hello,
[S]I am wondering if its been done. And if there is a best practice for doing this sort of thing.[/S]
I have searched the wiki and the forums, and decided to seek help from the community.

We have 12TB of storage on our network(NAS). My goal is to store all images on the NAS for safekeeping.
Is it possible by default to do this?

I thought long and hard about this, and I came up with a few ideas that may get the job done.
1: create a symlink: This will allow linux to think its saving it on its own hard drive, but will actually save to network.
2: setup a cron tab with bash script to just transfer the files (save and deploy from server -but then must re-locate images prior to deploying. )

3: Attach NAS to Server via USB(not sure if it will work, but theres a chance.)

More Details: Running fog on Dell Poweredge 2850 with ubuntu-server(no gui).

Please share your thoughts and opinions on this matter and hopefully find a solution.

EDIT: Answered

[B]To Make an Image backup of a Windows Server 2003 Machine, you must select All Disks- Multiple Partitions and on the host page set it to Windows (Other).[/B]

Original Message:
I was not able to successfully pull an image from our Windows servers.

Perhaps I am confused an not sure which option to select.

I tried single partition (XP) with no luck,
Then I tried Multiple Partitions on single disk (that makes more sense)

Also, is it required to take the extra step like for Windows 7 machines?

Please help me understand what option will work for me.

Extra details: Dell Poweredge 2950 with Windows Server 2003.

I have imaged a wide range of dell Poweredge models with Various raid setups. Mostly Perc cards with RAID 5 configs.

To assit in your original post: the issue [B]“Unable to move /images/dev/mac address to /images/name-of-image[/B]” is very common, and you may be able to resolve it here: [URL=‘http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Images_Directory_Permissions’]Link to wiki discussing Image Directory Permissions[/URL]

and Jaymes is correct, you may be required to run a different kernel to accomplish this. However, do not be frightened by the entire build your own kernel thread… You may be able to get by using the “Kitchen Sink” kernel which is readily available for download.
Else, many other users including myself have compiled kernels that you can try.

I would start by providing more information to the community so we can try to make your experience a little bit less time consuming. (machine make and model and other hardware details)

I had the same issue with Lenovo systems… What I did was go into the BIOS and disable UEFI. I selected “Legacy Mode” and it booted up just fine.

Is your fog server on the same network as your workstations to be imaged? I got confused when you responded with the bandwidth of your Internet service. He was asking for your network. The internal network and the devices that run it. Like a router, switch or hub(has nothing to do with the internet service).

Ask your system admin if you have a 10MB network, a 100MB network, a 1GB network or a 10GB network.
That should give us the info to help answer your question.

First off, yes, did you create a user on your device named fog with the password of password of password? (unless you changed your default password in fog or set it on linux)

I was able to replicate this and have successfully got it passed the permission denied error.
This is NOT what I was talking about before. This requires you actually setup a new storage node in FOG web settings.

Step 1: Select “Storage Management” from the top menu in the Fog web interface.
Step 2: Add New storage node.
– See my screenshot
– Be sure to use “/mnt/pools/A/A0/images/” if this is accurate to your device. (On my Iomega share I have /images setup-- change the name to reflect your share.)

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NOTICE: I set this to my default storage node / is Master node. (because my server is just a virtual appliance, the storage is external…)

Now, make sure your fog installation can see it… go back to the home page and check your storage size.
(It will be blank until you change to the Storage node you just created.) (for my new storage node, it says “Unable to connect”… but when I select “default member” from the list, I see all my disk space from my Iomega device.)
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Finally, as you can see, In Image Management, I have it set to store images in the Default Storage group.
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This method should work for you, it worked for me twice… I set it up and it worked, then I re-installed fog and re-did it just to make sure.

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looks like your /images is mounted as user = root with group = root.
run this command.
sudo chown fog /images (that will Change Owner to fog for /images.)

As for your TFTP: I was more interested to see the contents of one of your files.

do: cd /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/

inside this directory is where your workstation looks for the PXE file to boot.

when you set a task to run in fog, a file is output to this directory (/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg)
the name of the file IS THE MAC ADDRESS of the host to be imaged. (ex. 01-00-24-e8-fa-e9)

I want to see what is inside of that file… that is where all of the connection information is at.

Please paste the contents of this file.

Finally, do not hesitate to ask for assistance if you need help with anything mentioned above.

make sure your newly mounted /images has user= fog group = root permissions

just run the ls -al command in the root / to check this.
Also, go into the /tftpboot directory and paste the contents of one of the command files here so I can see exactly what’s going on.
in order to see a command file, you must have an active task. the command file will have the name of the MAC address of the machine that the task is created for.

also, 10.200.44.2 = that is your fog-server correct? or is that the storage’s IP address?

I will check my setup for any additional details that could help resolve this for you…