Hello Sebastian!
Cloning works again, maybe some sun flares ;)

Your kernel-params for sercon are working great!
Thanks a lot for your help!

Best regards,
R.

Dear Sebastian!

Wow! Any kind of display at headless machines would be great!
It is an APU-Board.
https://www.pcengines.ch/apu3c4.htm

enabling the sserial console withj kernel params would be cool!

Your guess: single disk multi partitions is correct

Your suggestion lead to this: Everything went fine. In debug-mode the clone was successful.

After the successful cloning in debug-mode
I tried again with non-debug but did not change the moidified ramdisk back, cloning worked

After the successful cloning I re-did with the original ramdisk: cloning worked

I have no idea whats going on.
thx!
R

root@1stNAS:/images/dev/000db94a39a8# file d1p1.img.000 
d1p1.img.000: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun Nov 25 20:22:26 2018, from Unix

cat d1.partitions 
label: dos
label-id: 0x42d3de51
device: /dev/sda
unit: sectors

/dev/sda1 : start=        2048, size=   449218560, type=83
/dev/sda2 : start=   449220608, size=    39176560, type=82

And here comes the log:

[Sun Nov 25 root@fogclient ~]# fog
 * Running post init scripts.........................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue


   ==================================
   ===        ====    =====      ====
   ===  =========  ==  ===   ==   ===
   ===  ========  ====  ==  ====  ===
   ===  ========  ====  ==  =========
   ===      ====  ====  ==  =========
   ===  ========  ====  ==  ===   ===
   ===  ========  ====  ==  ====  ===
   ===  =========  ==  ===   ==   ===
   ===  ==========    =====      ====
   ==================================
   ===== Free Opensource Ghost ======
   ==================================
   ============ Credits =============
   = https://fogproject.org/Credits =
   ==================================
   == Released under GPL Version 3 ==
   ==================================
   Version: 1.5.5
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Verifying network interface configuration.........Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking Operating System.........................Windows XP
 * Checking CPU Cores................................4
 * Send method.......................................NFS
 * Attempting to check in............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Mounting File System..............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking Mounted File System......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking img variable is set......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Preparing to send image file to server
 * Preparing backup location.........................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Setting permission on /images/000db94a39a8........Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Removing any pre-existing files...................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Using Image: nsa193_ssd_msata
 * Looking for Hard Disk.............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Reading Partition Tables..........................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Using Hard Disk: /dev/sda
 * Now FOG will attempt to capture the image using Partclone
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Processing Hard Disk: /dev/sda
 * Saving original disk/parts UUIDs
 * Press [Enter] key to continue


 * Saving Partition Tables (MBR).....................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue
Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Processing Partition: /dev/sda1 (1)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Using partclone.extfs
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

Cloned successfully.
 * Image Captured
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Processing Partition: /dev/sda2 (2)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Saving swap partition UUID
 * Saving UUID (bf7eaf1e-a5fc-4a3a-aa1d-3fc55096e747) for (/dev/sda2)
 * Stopping FOG Status Reporter......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Task Complete
 * Updating Database.................................
Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue
[Sun Nov 25 root@fogclient ~]# 

@Sebastian-Roth said in Cloning loops forever:

ssh -o “UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null” -o “StrictHostKeyChecking=no” root@

Dropbox :)
here ii is:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8iuhvmlwuepwihw/fog.webm?dl=0

Hi There!

Uh! It took me a while to make a video.

Since i installed 1.5.5 the behaviour changed a bit: now the computer reboots everyx time it wants to get a new clone, but loops anyway.

Where can I put it? Its got 80MB. Maybe i can send it by “wetransfer.com”?

Here is the description:

you can see 3 Windows:
upper left: serial console to the computer that shall be captured
upper rigth: „watch -la /images/dev/00…“

these are the events at specific timestamps:
0:29 computer boots (its headless, only serial console is available to watch it)
1:47: directories+files are created
1:50: clone starts
3:28 reboot
4:54 ftp test

Hi!

My clone (capture) loops forever.

I tried these 3 things - more than once ;)

1st) i checked all passwords, I walked through https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_FTP

2nd) i installed 1.5.5 over 1.5.0

3rd) i checked all passwords - incl. the linux-user “fog”

What happens:

when clone is finished, it starts from beginning. Computer does NOT(!) reboot, it simply starts to clone again.

the /images/dev/00… looks like:
drwxrwxrwx 2 fog root 96 Nov 20 22:56 .
drwxrwxrwx 4 fog root 4096 Nov 20 22:04 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 20 22:56 d1.has_grub
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1048576 Nov 20 22:56 d1.mbr
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 20 Nov 20 22:56 d1p1.img.000
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 182 Nov 20 22:56 d1.partitions

Give attention to the d1p1.img.000 entry.
It starts with size 0, then goes to 20, and thats it. it never grows bigger.
i can change whatever permissions what ever i want, no change.

when ist starts over, the MAC-Dir is deleted and newly made with root:root and thats it.

Any help is welcome!
regards

@tom-elliott
Nice move! Thanks a lot!
i give it a try!

@tom-elliott
I think i will change the FS of the disk, so it will become cloneable.

have a nice day and thanks a lot for your help!
can you mark the thread solved?

@tom-elliott
Hi!

i just saw, that FOG uses partclone 0.2.89 but 0.3.10 is actual.
BTRFS seems to be an issue with partclone.

Is there a way to upgrade partclone to 0.3.10 in a debian installation of fog ?

thx!

@tom-elliott
Okay, clonezille (live) crashed too.
it terminates without any error-message or exit-code.

the only solution I came up at the moment is:
running fog DEBUG and boot into a shell
then mount the fog nfs share
then dd both disks onto that share

so, at least i have a backup ;)

if you have any better idea, you are welcome!

best regards,
Xibeaga

@tom-elliott
hey, no problem at all! :)))

Okay, ic. I suspected partclone too.

I never used clonezilla, I just know it exists. I use fog since 0.98 or so… ;)
Ok, I will try clonezilla on this.
Hm, maybe i should try fog with dd first?