#272 Image restoration failed

[SKS]

Hi There,

We are trying to clone image on the new server and it got stucks every time, it shows in the information as below:
....
scsi 0:3:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 12
[ OK ]
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 335: /etc/rc.modules: Permission denied
Setting hostname ks1465: [ OK ]
device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.33.1-ioctl (2015-8-18) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
Setting up Logical Volume Management: No volume groups found
[ OK ]
Checking filesystems
[ OK ]
Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [FAILED]
Mounting local filesystems: [FAILED]
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ]
Entering non-interactive startup
Enabling ondemand cpu frequency scaling: [ OK ]
Starting rpcbind: [ OK ]
Starting NFS statd: [ OK ]
NFS filesystems queued to be mounted
Mounting filesystems: [FAILED]
Starting sshd: [ OK ]

Trying to arm the wake on LAN for eth0... eth1... eth2... eth3... eth4... eth5..
. eth6... eth7... done!
Waiting for udevd to be started...
Use LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Reading ocs_opt from /proc/cmdline...
Now run: ocs-sr -l en_US.UTF-8 -c -d --debug=5 --nogui -v --batch -g auto -e1 au
to -e2 -r --clone-hidden-data --ignore-chk-dsk-size-pt -p reboot restoredisk imagecreationtest_240217 sda
Setting the TERM as linux
********.
Clonezilla image dir: /export
********.
OCS_OPTS: -p reboot
PARTIMAGE_SAVE_OPT: --debug=5 -B gui=no
PARTIMAGE_RESTORE_OPT: --debug=5 -B gui=no
PARTCLONE_SAVE_OPT: -d
PARTCLONE_RESTORE_OPT: -d
Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager
No volume groups found
Finished Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager

***********.
OCS_OPTS: -p reboot
PARTIMAGE_SAVE_OPT: --debug=5 -B gui=no
PARTIMAGE_RESTORE_OPT: --debug=5 -B gui=no
PARTCLONE_SAVE_OPT: -d
PARTCLONE_RESTORE_OPT: -d
Enter shell...Use "exit" to back to the original program.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
Login incorrect.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
bash: no job control in this shell
[root@ks1465 ~]# pwd
/root
[root@ks1465 ~]# ls -ltr
total 0
[root@ks1465 ~]# ls -ltr /var/log/
total 208
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 5 2010 ConsoleKit
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 2012 mail
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2013 prelink
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Aug 10 2014 audit
drwxr-xr-x 2 ntp ntp 4096 Mar 9 2015 ntpstats

So the system hangs there.

Despite with debug and more verbal option, there are nothing in the log to explain deeply about this failure.

Could you point to the possible root cause please ?

We got stuck for quite some time already.

Thank you,
Best regards,
K.

[Steven Shiau]

So this is for Clonezilla SE? Did you upgrade the system? If so, please follow
http://drbl.org/installation/#upgrade
to upgrade DRBL.
BTW, you can try to use DRBL live for this, maybe this is easier.

Steven

[SKS]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your reply.
No we have not upgraded the system. In our environment, we can not decide to do such thing easily.

Cloning on 2 servers HP DL380 G9 without any issue. But the 3rd server, that failed as specified above error message.

We would like to know more about.

Anyway, i just see that the 3rd Server has different model (EH0600JEDHE vs EH0600JDXBC) and in firmware (HPD4 vs HPD3) but the same size.

Could this be the reason ?

Thank you,
K.

[Steven Shiau]

Maybe this is Linux kernel/hardware support related issue. Not sure.
Is that possible you can first give Clonezilla live a try?

Steven

[SKS]

But in the linux log, there are nothing reporting about the error.
We had chosen years ago for SE version as it is centralized for cloning our servers. Afraid that to adopt this new thing will have to change the way we do the job.

[SKS]

Hi Steven,
I am having a look at the capability of clonezilla live version but didnt see the example of how to :

• save computer's image on an external server
• restore computer's image from an external server
• the external server compared to SE version (clonezilla is installed there) : does external server needed to be booted from clonezilla live USB key too ?
• possibily for cloning many computers from external server

Could you confirm about the possibility for doing such thing (as did Server Edition) please ?

Thank you,
K.

[Steven Shiau]

Hi,
Sorry for the late I was very busy this month.
As for your 1st two questions,
you can find doc about that in
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php

For your 3rd question, the external server is like the NAS server which you can save and read the image. It does not have to be booted from Clonezilla live.

As for 4th question, if you want to deploy many computers at the same time, you can use Clonezilla SE, i.e., DRBL live.

Steven