Posts made by MrsPotter

Exactly.

No, I get no warnings: It boots, I see the little Win7 icon moving. It freezes and then reboots. If I then boot using ‘debug’ mode, I can see that it stalls at ‘classpnp.sys’. That’s it.

No it is not in UEFI mode.

Thanks for replying.

In my application I would like to image a machine before making major changes to the software setup. Basically, put a version of it in the deep freeze for just in case. Or you could see it as a restore point of sorts. I used to do this with Clonezilla with reasonable success. Thus, I’m not too keen on going the ‘sysprep’ route. I basically want to restore a prior working configuration to the same hardware.

I gathered it might be a driver issue of sorts, but Google doesn’t bring up too many useful ideas.

I don’t want to abandon FOG yet as it seems it might just be something stupid.

I’m getting the same result with ‘Single Disk - Resizable’ option.

I’m testing out FOG. So I setup a server and have now uploaded a Win7 image to the server using the following setting:

• Windows 7 Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable)

After this I download the image to the same system and drive. Everything completes successfully but I cannot get the system booted.

I have tried the following:

• Windows start-up repair
• Windows EasyRecovery CD
• I’ve tried fixparts and then ‘w’
• I’ve tried adjusting the BIOS from AHCI to IDE (also legacy)

Nothing seems to work.

I thought it might only be that specific machine. But, I’ve replicated the issue across two other machines with different drives and hardware. I’ve also tried restoring to a larger disk.

What am I doing wrong here?

PS: I’m now trying the ‘Single Disk - Resizable’ option.

Thanks,

MrsPotter.

Cool got it working! Sorry for the trouble, indeed I forgot to: [FONT=Consolas]service nfs-kernel-server restart[/FONT]

[COLOR=#000000]But, after I read the above links I thought there might be more to it. This was not the case. I can now assign images to any of the two locations without trouble.[/COLOR]

Hi,

I’d like to store some of my images on one drive, and other images on another drive. Is this possible? It seems FOG wants the images to be in /images.

I’ve read the following bits on how to change it, but am having trouble.

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Change_NFS_location[/url]
[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Moving_your_images_directory/Adding_Storage_to_the_Images_directory[/url]
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-to-change-default-image-store-location.391/[/url]
[url]http://www.topgearit.net/index.php?title=Change_FOG_Image_Storage_Location[/url]

One of the issues I’m having is that the file: [FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000]/var/www/fog/commons/config.php does not exist in my Debian 7 install.[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000]Even if it had existed, it seems that one can only change [/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=#000000]“SPACE_DEFAULT_STORAGE” and not add an additional location. So even if I could move the storage location, I cannot add one. [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]Ideally I’d like to add another local StorageNode in the web interface. Such that I have:[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]DefaultMember1 --> /images/drive1[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]DefaultMember2 --> /images/drive2[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]Now one could assign the respective images to a respective StorageNode.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]Is this a possible scenario?[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]If I try this I get a message saying “Permission denied cannot mount /images/drive1 on /images”. However, both drives do have the .mntcheck file and are chmod -777 with owner root. I essentially copied the contents of /images to /images/drive1|2 keeping the permissions. I’ve altered the /etc/export as recommended, but cannot locate the config.php “SPACE_DEFAULT_STORAGE”.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]FOG Ver. 1.2.0[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000]Debian 7[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]Thanks,[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]MrsPotter.[/COLOR]

Yes - thanks. Your suggestions make sense. And, yes one can build remarkably complex images with all the tools MS provides. And, we do that also. And, yes GPO is great (could have been more user friendly), and we use it extensively. However, it is for a great many reasons not entirely practical with this particular setup we have.

Having Partimage check if the image is restorable would be a nice to have though :). I was assuming one could tweak this through some sort of advanced setting. Even, if you do a SysPrep you would want to be sure it was imaged correctly before you even move on to the testing phase. Maybe I should list this under feature requests? It would also be cool if one could have more than one image associated with a certain PC.

Other than that - all my thumbs are up - FOG seems like a very neat piece of software

Sure - I’m very much aware that it is not a backup solution. Maybe, my original post was a little ambiguous. We have a Windows domain with all the important data redirected back to the server. The server is backed up nightly. So, strictly speaking, that is our backup system - not FOG. However, this does not enable bare-metal restores of individual workstations. To fill that gap I take regular images of each workstation. Maybe once every two months (or when new software were installed). In case of catastrophic failure, one can then pop in a new hard drive. Clone back the image. The rest is handled by the Windows folder redirection. Thus far I’ve had great success with it. However, I was using Clonezilla. I’m experimenting with FOG because the web interface seem so neat and user friendly. Also, it seems to have the capability of initiating a clone remotely which will be awesome.

I noted that FOG is built upon some of the same software than Clonezilla is. Which is why I wondered if there is a way to set the ‘check if image is restorable’ flag - which seems to be a function of partclone. I doesn’t happen often, but I had a few images in the past that cloned without problem, but then failed the restorable test. Which is why I was hoping to be able to check the image afterwards.

Hi,

I’m using FOG as a backup system of sorts. I do regular clones, and keep regular backups - thus, I could always do a bare-metal restore should it be required.

However, I need to be sure that the image that was uploaded to the server can be restored. I used to use Clonezilla and can remember that there is a flag that tells Partimage to check the image after it was made.

Can I do the same with FOG?

Thanks.

I finally had a chance to look at this project again - I wiped the disk, re-installed a ‘blank’ ubuntu and re-installed FOG. Nothing special, and now it seems to work. Via dumb switch, and via smart switch.

But, thanks for all the help thus far!

Hi Tom,

Your help is much appreciated. I haven’t lost interest - it is just the client has closed offices for Xmas & New Years so I currently don’t have access to the hardware for further testing. I’m currently testing FOG as an alternative to Clonezilla to do regular disk clones for backup and archival purposes. Clonezilla worked great up until now, but FOG seemed like an slightly more polished alternative providing a little more automated feedback etc.

So I’m actually mostly interested in the upload (to server) part and in case of emergency the download (to client) bit. I’m having trouble with the upload at the moment. Didn’t get to the download part yet.

I’ll post once I had a chance to fiddle with it - I’m sure I disabled the firewall straight off the bat, but I might have forgotten about SELinux.

In meanwhile - Happy New Year!

MrsPotter.

After a while it times out and then throws the ‘Fatal Error: Failed to mount NFS Volume’ and then says it is going to reboot the PC within 1 minute.

FOG works perfectly behind a dumb switch, but this is the behaviour as soon as I put it behind the managed switch. I kept the device to be imaged the same to be sure that it isn’t the device to be cloned that is at fault. I also tried other machines to be imaged but same result. Definitely something to do with the switch it seems.

Creating the /images/.mntcheck didn’t seem to change anything.

One thing though: While setting up FOG I went through a number of steps found on the wiki etc. One of them said to change the FOG Storage Nodes username and password to the standard: fog & password. I kept the fog username and password like this. The username was ‘fogstorage’ and I never knew what the password was. Could I have broken it this way?

Sorry first time installing FOG. I’m quite familiar with Clonezilla and the bouquet of software it comprises. Many of which FOG seems to use too. But, this is the first time I’m trying FOG. I searched your forum for my problem but didn’t find anything similar - so I’m hoping I’m not a noob wasting everyone’s time.

OK did this:
touch /images/.mntcheck;
chmod -R 777 /images

But it is unchanged. I’ve attached a pic of the screen for you.
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/images/dev/.mntcheck - does exist
/images/.mntcheck - does not exist (should I create one?)

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FOG Ver: 1.2.0
OS Ver : Debian GNU/Linux 7.7 (wheezy)

From your reply I gather the STP should be turned off. However, in my case the STP is turned off. I also turned off everything else I could find, including all the smart security DOS prevention etc to try and get it as close to an unmanaged switch I can. Most functions are disabled after a factory reset in anyway. Once it is working I could work from there adjusting the switch to for our environment while checking that FOG still works.

But, for the moment FOG is still saying ‘Failed to mount NFS Volume’.

I’m scheduling an upload before PXE booting the machine. It then gets an IP via DHCP server and boots the PXE images etc. There is no menu in this case, but I did boot it to the menu and did a full registration. This worked with no error messages.

Any ideas? (I’m hoping it is just something silly).

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

My FOG setup works without a problem when using a dumb very cheap unmanaged 8-port Gbps D-Link switch.

However, when I try it through my managed layer3 D-Link DGS-3120 Gbps switch it cannot mount the NFS volume. It says: [B]‘Fatal Error: Failed to mount NFS Volume’[/B]

So I’m assuming there isn’t anything wrong with my FOG setup since it works in the one case. And, that the problem lies with my managed switch setup. I’ve already tried resetting the switch to factory defaults such that it runs in ‘unmanaged’ mode. But that didn’t help. I read somewhere on this forum someone reporting that enabling IGMP Snooping helped with a Cisco switch, but I can’t really see why it would help in this case. It is almost as if it is blocking the NFS traffic, but I can’t see how/why it would do that.

Can anyone hint me the right direction?

Thanks,

MrsPotter.