The GUI is the most appropriate place to schedule/setup the tasking.
That said, it should still be possible to setup tasking directly via the command line within the client you’re trying to perform the task.
However, it’s not very simple as it is unlikely your system has enough RAM to store the image. Process should be:
Mount /images/dev
Make a directory within the mounted /images/dev to store your image
make a backup of your mbr and store it in the location.
make file input file output interface (mkfifo)
Translate and obtain image through that fifo file to the storage location (Partclone or Partimage)
You’ll likely need to do this for all partitions you need the data from.
Once all of that is complete you’re fairly safe to reboot the client machine.
You’ll then need to copy or move the /images/dev/<FOLDERNAME> to /images/<IMAGENAMEPATH>
THere is a normal file format standard for fog. (Assuming multi-part image type)
d{disknumber}.mbr (e.g. d1.mbr d2.mbr) Is the mbr naming convention for the disk.
d{disknumber}p{partitionnumber}.img (e.g d1p1.img d1p2.img d2p1.img d2p2.img) Is the Naming of the actual image data.
For resizable images the name is:
(For standard base install of windows 7)
rec.img.000 (the 100MB recovery partition)
sys.img.000 (the main data patition)
If there is no 100MB recover partition and you have only the one partition the only file needed is
sys.img.000
Hopefully this helps, but it’s not very straight forward. It’s much easier to use the GUI to schedule the deployment job you need for both Upload and Download tasks.
