Bernard
Thank you. Unfortunately, I don't think moving my entire /var/lib dir to
the external hard drive is an option I'd like to take on. Far too much
other data within that directory. Seems a shame we can't just point
SystemImager to whatever directory we want to save the image to.
BTW, you do have the scenario correct.
More; the system I am trying to image is a Dell XPS 710 Ubuntu Jaunty
w/software RAID controlling 2x 500G drives which house the Ubuntu
install. Additionally, it has 2x NVidia GeForce 8800's, another graphics
accelerator card, Soundblaster 5.1 surround sound card, etc so this
thing is a bear to have to reinstall with all the different config
changes/edits I have to do to get everything running. Because of the
NVidia software RAID, I have to use the alternate CD to install the OS,
and that also means that all of the other clone/ghost software I have
found does not support the software RAID. I can't even use a Live CD to
do dd as it won't see the RAID drives. Quite the challenge. I haven't
even found a truly decent backup program to handle imaging the system
either. I'm just tired of having to rebuild this thing from scratch
every time something goes awry. The last time a week ago was an update
that toasted my video config and I couldn't get the custom xorg.conf to
take so had to flatten it and rebuild again, (which I have done over the
last 6 months no less than a dozen times!)
Oh, I should also mention that within this Dell, I also have a 1TB drive
housing WinXP and another 500G data drive. I also have the 1TB external
HDD and another 500G. Heck, I have 100G and 250G external HDD's too.
For that matter, I have a 2 TB Lefthand Networks clustered iscsi SAN
upstairs with my ESX server connected.
If you have any ideas or other options for me to look into, I would most
certainly appreciate it.
Thanks again-
Jim
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 11:12 -0700, Bernard Li wrote:
> Hi Jim:
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Jim O'Beirne<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > How would I save the golden_image to a dir on an external hard drive? I am
> > trying to create an image of a system that has a large hard drive to a
> > server with a smaller hard drive BUT has large external HDD. Have search
> > docs for help to no avail. Or, could I save the image from the client to the
> > ext HDD on the client?
>
> Okay, let me try to rephrase your question -- basically you are trying
> to take a golden image of a client with a larger HD than that of the
> image server's HD. The good news is that on your image server, you
> have an external HD that has enough capacity to hold the client image.
>
> If that's the case, then all you need to do is get SystemImager to
> save the image to the external HD.
>
> SystemImager stores all its images to the directory
> /var/lib/systemimager/images, so perhaps what you can do is move the
> contents of that directory to your external HD and then mount the
> external HD as /var/lib/systemimager/images. From then on any images
> stored in SystemImager will be stored on the external HD instead of
> the internal HD of your image server.
>
> However, that means the external HD need to be pretty much connected
> to the server all the time for SystemImager to work at all, so take
> heed of that. Also, since the images are stored on the USB drive, the
> speed of imaging will take a substantial hit.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Bernard
>
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