Hi, "if I don’t specify any disk or partition on the clonezilla server before rebooting the client, but for some reason, if I specify the same device from the server, the client gets an “input device [sda] not exist” and image saving aborts." -> I do not understand this. Could you please describe more? Thanks.
Steven. On 2012/3/30 下午 09:07, Steve Molloy wrote: > Hi, > > I’m having a weird issue for which I can’t get my head around, any help > will be greatly appreciated. I’m trying to setup a small Clonezilla > cluster to have 6 servers be managed by a central Clonezilla server. > I’ve setup everything and tested with local machines and it seemed to > work, then I switched to use 1 of the 6 servers (they are still actively > used, so I have to make sure everything works before switching all of > them). > > I can save a disk image fine if I don’t specify any disk or partition on > the clonezilla server before rebooting the client, but for some reason, > if I specify the same device from the server, the client gets an “input > device [sda] not exist” and image saving aborts. This is annoying as the > client machine is actually a server in the server room which is not > straight-forward to access physically, ideally, I will need to perform > everything remotely. But even worst, since I cannot specify the device > from the server, I can’t actually restore any images because for > restoring, device cannot be specified on the client. > > My servers are all IBMs, running Ubuntu 10 (for now) and the server I’m > trying to clone is currently using IBM’s ServeRAID with a RAID-0 array > of 2 disks, which show as sda everywhere I can see, even if I output > /proc/partitions in local mode after image saving as just failed. > > Has anyone seen this problem or can anyone provide any hints? > > Thanks, > > *Steve Molloy* > Content Analytics Lead | R&D > > > > Website: > > > > www.opentext.com <http://www.opentext.com/> > > http://www.opentext.com/2/emailsupport-logo-opentext-2010.gif > <http://www.opentext.com/2/email-signature-logo> > > Nstein is now OpenText. > /Please update your address book with my new email address./ > > This email message is confidential, may be privileged, and is intended > for the exclusive use of the addressee. Any other person is strictly > prohibited from disclosing or reproducing it. If the addressee cannot be > reached or is unknown to you, please inform the sender by return email > and delete this email message and all copies immediately. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > > > > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-server-edition mailing list > Clonezilla-server-edition@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-server-edition -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-server-edition mailing list Clonezilla-server-edition@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-server-edition
