When I want to save the image for my server's disk, you can either provide the name and select the disk to backup from the DRBL server, or let them be selected on the DRBL client. With the first option, the client fails to find the sda disk. If I don't specify a disk when configuring PXE for the client and enter sda when in the client's console, everything works.
This said, I made progress since and think I may have found my solution. First, I changed the clonezilla mode from 0 to 3 to use Clonezilla live. This allowed me to save image of partitions (haven't tried disk, think it's still having issues, but I don't really need it). For restoring, I also had to enter expert options and have the client skip hardware detection. This allowed me to successfully restore the image I had just saved. My last problem is the GRUB menu generated actually waits for someone to press enter, but I should be able to fix this today and move on. :) Thanks, Steve Molloy Content Analytics Lead | R&D Phone: Website: www.opentext.com We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Attributed to Albert Einstein -----Original Message----- From: Steven Shiau [mailto:ste...@nchc.org.tw] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 5:53 AM To: clonezilla-server-edition@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-server-edition] Problem detecting drive/partition when choosing on server 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. 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