Hello, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de> wrote on 19/02/2015 10:59:36:
Hello,
On Feb 19 10:25 vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote (excerpt):
the autoyast documentation in oS13.2 does not mention images any longer. Does it still work? I used it once upon a time, but don't remember how. I also don't find a documentation for it. Is the image just a tar.gz of a preconfigured system? How do I specify it in the control file?
I finally found something: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery
It has instructions for "Native disaster recovery with AutoYaST" https://en.opensuse.org/ SDB:Disaster_Recovery#Native_disaster_recovery_with_AutoYaST
Wow! It seems you are the very first who recognized it!
The original documentation about "imaging feature"/"image script" is http://users.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_changes_SLES10_SLES11.html
I (mis)-used it in rear-SUSE to skip RPM package installation in AutoYaST in the same way as described at "Other possible ways to do native disaster recovery with AutoYaST" in https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery
You may have a look at the original rear-SUSE documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/rear-SUSE/README in the rear-SUSE RPM. You can "just install" the rear-SUSE RPM from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsmeix/openSUSE_13.2/noarch/
The RPM installation won't do anything in your system (except that you get its files stored on your disk). For anything after SLE11 (in particular for SLE12 and 13.2) rear-SUSE can no longer work because the whole installation workflow is meanwhile too different (new installer, systemd instead of sysVinit, ...). Nevertheless the general information in the rear-SUSE README might be still of interest.
I have a question about the changes to the autoyast.xml file. On the page https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery#How_does_autoinst.xml_for_nati... in the second box you add <image_location>http://my_internal_http_server</image_location> <image_name>backup-restore-image</image_name> in the <image> section. Is this really working? The restore script specified in <script_location>http://my_internal_http_server/backup-restore.sh </script_location> has no way to get those definitions, does it? Your example skript hardcodes the location and name of the image. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org