Changeset 2380 in MondoRescue for branches/2.2.9/mindi/README.pxe

Timestamp:

Sep 9, 2009, 8:30:47 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Message:

• Change NFS support into a NetFS support to allow for multiple protocol in addition to NFS (NEEDS TESTING)
• Better logging to detect a potential nuke issue

File:

• branches/2.2.9/mindi/README.pxe (modified) (4 diffs)

branches/2.2.9/mindi/README.pxe

@@ -11 +11 @@
 label mondo
         kernel vmlinuz-mondo
-        append initrd=initrd-mondo load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=131072 rw root=/dev/ram iso acpi=off apm=off devfs=nomount exec-shield=0 pxe [prefix=machine] [ipconf=(ipdev:ipadr:netmask:broadcast:gateway|ipdev:dhcp)] [nfsmount=server:mountpoint] [nfspath=local_path] [ping=#] ...
+        append initrd=initrd-mondo load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=131072 rw root=/dev/ram iso acpi=off apm=off devfs=nomount exec-shield=0 pxe [proto=nfs|sshfs] [prefix=machine] [ipconf=(ipdev:ipadr:netmask:broadcast:gateway|ipdev:dhcp)] [netfsmount=server:mountpoint] [netfspath=local_path] [ping=#] ...
 
 ipdev is the device name (e.g. eth2)
@@ -19 +19 @@
 gateway is the default gateway (e.g. 192.168.1.254)
 dhcp is a keyword. Using it will provide all the previous 4 values to activate the LAN interface.
-server is the ip addr of the NFS server
-mountpoint is the mount point on the NFS server to use (should be in /etc/exports of the NFS server)
+proto is the protocol to use for mounting the remote share (default is NFS, sshfs is also available)
+server is the ip addr of the Remote Network server
+mountpoint is the mount point on the Remote Network server to use (if NFS, should be in /etc/exports of the NFS server)
+netfsmount is the server and mountpoint on which the ISO is available, if different from the one at backup time. For SSHFS the server part can be of the form user@server.
+netfspath is the local path on the remote server where the image is located, if different from the one at backup time.
 local_path is the local directory under which the mage was made (with the -d option)
 rmadisk_size may have to be increase to 131072 on more recent distributions such as rhel 5
@@ -40 +43 @@
 Without prefix keyword, the name of the images used during archiving with the -p option will be used (they may differ). If -p wasn't used then the name mondorescue-1.iso, ... will be used.
 
-During boot mondorestore will start your NFS configuration and mount mondo's content from the network rather than from a physical media. You may alter the IP configuration stored from the original machine by passing the ipconf option describing respectively the IP address, netmask, broadcast and default gateway you want to setup for the machine, separated by ':'. Or alternatively, you may specify the dhcp keyword so that a DHCP request is made to get those information. In the 2 cases, you have to mention on which physical interface those parameters should apply. On some configurations, you may also want to increase the number of ping queries made before the NFS mount, which is of 3 by default, using the ping option and give the number you want. If you have a different NFS server for the deployment than for the archiving, you can also precise it through the nfsmount option. The structure on both server under the mountpoint has to be the same.
+During boot mondorestore will start your NFS configuration and mount mondo's content from the network rather than from a physical media. You may alter the IP configuration stored from the original machine by passing the ipconf option describing respectively the IP address, netmask, broadcast and default gateway you want to setup for the machine, separated by ':'. Or alternatively, you may specify the dhcp keyword so that a DHCP request is made to get those information. In the 2 cases, you have to mention on which physical interface those parameters should apply. On some configurations, you may also want to increase the number of ping queries made before the NFS mount, which is of 3 by default, using the ping option and give the number you want. If you have a different NFS server for the deployment than for the archiving, you can also precise it through the netfsmount option. The structure on both server under the mountpoint has to be the same.
 
 CAVEAT: the limit to the number of char on the append line is 255. Use symlinks to reduce the size of your path if needed.
@@ -46 +49 @@
 Please report any problem around that tool to bruno@mondorescue.org
 
+2009-09-09 Changed to netfs for multi protocol support (nfs, sshfs, ...)
 2009-05-07 nfspath added to allow redeployment from another NFS directory
 2006-06-10 nfsmount added to allow redeployment from another NFS server