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Offline Stephen

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Problem with DeployStudio
« on: July 31, 2014, 12:09:52 PM »
I was happily working away this summer rebuilding macs, creating an image, firing the image out to other macs in that room (only about 6 at a time). Finally I have come to the last 15 iMacs. So I update one, give it a good clean, check all the software is fully uptodate. Everything ok so far but when I run deploystudio and create the image from the hard drive it creates the image (tempory to HDD) ok but as soon as it goes to write to the repository the workflow stops with an error.

After breaking the Deploystudio server settings and beating my head against a wall for half a day I have finally got the server working again, however I still cannot write to the repository. I can go into the restore workflow and see all the current images sitting their, I tried a different machine (i.e. my administrator machine). It tries to create an image directly to the repository but fails.

I have checked the shares and their permissions, I have changed the repository from nfs to afp still nothing. I have changed the username and password that I use to access the repository in the server settings, I tried the server admin and the directory admin but still it does not work.

Anyone any ideas this is really cheesing me off considering it has been working all month and I changed nothing on the server.
P.S. there is plenty of disk space in the repository.


I am going to try to move the repository (or a copy of it) to my QNAP and see if that will work - dont know if it is possible! Only one way to find out.
 
 
UPDATE
Still working on this. I have successfully managed to set the repository to the QNAP using cifs://IP_Address/Sharefoldername with of course the username and password to access the repository in the shared folder. Strangely I had to use the IP address as it would not accept the machine name when I tried to use it. So I am just booting to network on the iMac I want to back up and will let you know how it goes. The machine has booted and the workflows are there so DeployStudio server is running ok from the xserve. It will be about 10 mins until I can see if the repository on the QNAP can be access from the machine being backed up.
 
UPDATE 2
Feck!
It has been creating recovery images in the tmp folder but nothing else.
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Re: Problem with DeployStudio
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2014, 04:50:05 PM »
Nthing worse than wasting days on things like that.. I spent near a week trying to allocate sophos out to a newly built suite for it to be failing due to dns server having wrong entries.

Hope you get it sorted soon, I have no clue about macs
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Re: Problem with DeployStudio
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2014, 12:30:51 PM »
I did a backup from an art machine and it worked, so I am thinking it is the mac I am using.


To test I have used Disk Utility to create an image on a usb drive. I have restored that image to a different iMac and am currently waiting to see if DeployStudio will back that one up.
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Re: Problem with DeployStudio
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2014, 02:56:54 PM »
Well to update this, it didnt work, again!


I am going to have to restore the machines from the USB backup file, that takes 45 mins per machine. Whereas DeployStudio would do 6 machines in that time. I know you can set Deploy Studio to backup to a drive but I am not pi**ing about with its settings again.


I have copied the image saved to usb into my network share repository. Unfortunately DeployStudio will not use the image but using the network boot and then disk utility I can restore the image from the share to the Hard Drive. It takes longer than DeployStudio would take but at least it is something.


I last imaged the same machines 2 years ago so I have no notion why they will not image now.
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Re: Problem with DeployStudio
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