@george1421 I was able to figure it out. After RSYNC’ing the directories you have to export the images off the old server and then on the new server you have to import the images. Tested an image to a laptop and it worked.

Thank you for all the help. All good now.

@sebastian-roth Thanks Sebasian I appreciate the input and had a feeling you would say that. Was worth the ask though! Hats off to ya! Cheers

Is it possible for Fogserver to pull an image live on Windows without having to reboot/boot to pxe? If so can someone link the instructions? Currently we are using a product called Aomei on a USB Stick and it pulls a Windows backup or clones the entire disk live.

@sebastian-roth said in /bin/fog.upload doesn't exist:

mkdir /fogserver/images/dev
chmod 777 /fogserver/images/dev/
touch /fogserver/images/dev/.mntcheck
exportfs -r -v

Thanks for the help on this @Sebastian-Roth this was the fix. I also 777 .mntcheck but not sure if this is/was necessary.

@george1421 Here is the showmount:

[root@fogserver ~]$ showmount -e 127.0.0.1
Export list for 127.0.0.1:
/fogserver/images/dev *
/fogserver/images     *
[root@fogserver ~]$
[root@fogserver ~]$ firewall-cmd --list-all
FirewallD is not running
[root@fogserver ~]$

Filesystem is local so NFS is not being used either. Is there any reason why fog.upload is missing or is there a way to create it? We may have to troubleshoot on the client side to see.

Host is on a different subnet but is able to see fogserver from PXE even shows the fogserver version. Fails when checking mounted file system.

Here is fstab:

[root@fogserver ~]$ cat /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Fri Jan 18 14:32:07 2019
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=d3680351-a819-4c0c-89a1-b057c9d706a6 /               ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=80abf18a-7119-46a7-ac46-422183088f2e /boot           ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=7bac224f-c127-4d8e-8f51-e44aad453bc0 swap            swap    defaults        0 0
UUID=3a7d35ea-a600-4d0f-b40a-848b54a9bd3e /fogserver      ext4    defaults        0 0
UUID=c4bbc7df-8517-4f33-b9a6-374cbd8374da /fog_archives   ext4    defaults        0 0

Here are the mounts:

[root@fogserver ~]$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0  100G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0  4.1G  0 part /boot
├─sda2   8:2    0    8G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda3   8:3    0   86G  0 part /
sdb      8:16   0    2T  0 disk
└─sdb1   8:17   0    2T  0 part /fogserver
sdc      8:32   0    4T  0 disk /fog_archives
[root@fogserver ~]$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3        85G   51G   30G  64% /
/dev/sda1       4.0G  351M  3.4G  10% /boot
/dev/sdb1       2.0T  1.1T  813G  58% /fogserver
/dev/sdc        4.0T  460G  3.4T  12% /fog_archives
[jkrinsky@fogserver ~]$

@george1421 Hey George, this is a local file system on the fogserver itself. I don’t believe we changed the exports file but there are a few people who access the server so it is possible. The only caveat is this was working a few weeks ago and is now not working. Here is the contents of the exports file:

[root@fogserver etc]$ ls -lrt | grep exports
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root     4096 Oct 14  2021 exports.d
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root      194 Nov 19  2021 exports
[root@fogserver etc]$ sudo vim exports
/fogserver/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=0)
/fogserver/images/dev *(rw,async,no_wdelay,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,fsid=1)

Thoughts?

Getting error: Could not verify mount point, check if .mntcheck exists (/bin/fog.upload)

[root@fogserver ~]$ ls -alrt /fogserver/images/
total 116
drwxrwxrwx.  2 fogproject root     4096 Oct 19  2018 T470-Win10
drwxrwxrwx.  2 fogproject root     4096 Jan 22  2019 postdownloadscripts
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 fogproject root        0 Jan 22  2019 .mntcheck
drwxrwxrwx.  2 fogproject root     4096 Jan 22  2019 T480-Win10

Missing fog.upload

[root@fogserver ~]$ ls /bin/ | grep -i fog
[root@fogserver ~]$

Here is the Storage Path:

Thoughts?

@sebastian-roth My apologies for the late response, took an extended weekend. Here is a picture of the Laptop when attempting to create the image. Let me know if you are not able to read this.

Thanks Sebastian,

Here is the /images/dev directory:

[fogserver bin]$ cd /images/dev/
[fogserver dev]$ ls -alrt
total 12
drwxrwxrwx. 4 fog root 4096 Jan 22 2019 …
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 fog root 0 Jan 22 2019 .mntcheck
drwxrwxrwx. 2 fog root 4096 Jan 22 2019 postinitscripts
drwxrwxrwx. 3 fog root 4096 Jan 22 2019 .
[jkrinsky@fogserver dev]$

Sorry forgot to add /bin/fog.upload doesn’t exist either.

Running Fogserver on CentOS 7 (not a new install), when we try to capture an image from a host registered to the fogserver, this error rears it’s ugly head.

fogserver check if .mntcheck exists (/bin/fog.upload)

[fogserver /]$ ls -lrt / | grep -i images
drwxrwxrwx. 4 fog root 4096 Jan 22 2019 images

[fogserver /]$ ls -alrt /images
total 16
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 fog root 0 Jan 22 2019 .mntcheck
drwxrwxrwx. 2 fog root 4096 Jan 22 2019 postdownloadscripts
drwxrwxrwx. 4 fog root 4096 Jan 22 2019 .
drwxrwxrwx. 3 fog root 4096 Jan 22 2019 dev
dr-xr-xr-x. 23 root root 4096 Nov 19 11:47 …

[fogserver /]$ ls -alrt /bin
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jan 18 2019 /bin -> usr/bin

[fogserver /]$ ls -alrt /usr/bin
total 284184
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Mar 17 11:13 .mntcheck

Any thoughts?