Clonezilla restore using HTTP?
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Can Clonezilla use a web server to server images during restoration? (instead of nfs, ssh, samba or local_dev)
For restoring, it's possible. Webdev is one of the choices, but not for saving an image, since we had some tests and it failed due to the large file.
What kind of http storage service do you want to use?
Steven.
I currently have a tomcat web server in rhel54.
When using clonezilla, I have to set up/config NFS server for it (since it's 1 of the options to mount the /home/partimag)
Now that I have all the images I need, I would like to put all of the images to my web server and use the web server for the /home/partimage/ during restoring.
From your answer, look like you've already done it.
Can you let me know how to do this since I don't see http as an option in any of the examples or clonezilla screens.
Thanks,
I think you meant webdav when you typed webdev.
I did a search on the release notes and saw that davfs2 package is already in clonezilla, so I tried:
sudo mount -t davfs 'http://path.to.home.partimag/' /home/partimag/
but it complain that the filesystem type davfs is unknow.
do I need to modify the /etc/fstab and then run the mount command?
Oh, I saw that davfs2 was removed in version 1.2.0-27.
Can davfs2 be installed just before mounting the /home/partimag/ in the ocs_live_run script?
It's removed because of this issue:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dav/forums/forum/82589/topic/2248597
If you still want to try:
1. Boot Clonezilla live
2. Choose command line prompt
3. Run "sudo -i"
4. Run "ocs-live-netcfg" to configure the network
5. apt-get update; apt-get install davfs2
6. Manually mount the davfs as /home/partimag, and run "clonezilla", and you will be in the main menu. Then you can skip the mount step.
If you find something new, please share with us.
Thanks.
Steven.
After 4 years, is this trouble resolved?
I mean...nowadays having a HTTP server is much more easy, transversal and common than setting a NFS or Samba server; the lack of this kind of access to restoring images is really painful.
The issue mentioned in last post is from 2008...
I can say that instructions mentioned by Steven in last post still works!! It's only a fact of automating the process.
Oooh, no! It goes everything well until the blue screen with white square appears (just in the beginning of the restoration). It hangs after showing "Starting to restore image (-) to device (/dev/sda1)", and then, a "Input/Output error" message is printed. Crap!
This was explained in the above discussions.
Steven.