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No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 3:43 pm

Hi,

I am new to Refracta Tools. I downloaded the snapshot and installer. Everything went well. I created a snapshopt and it finished ok. However I don't see an iso image in the snapshot folder, just the md5 file. Did I run the tool correctly? I am using Debian Jessie 8. I do see files in the work folder, but no iso image. Thanks for your help and a great program.

Seth

Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 3:45 pm

I'm using the latest version of the refracta tools.

Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 3:55 pm

Well, I have an iso image but it is only @3.5 MB even though many GB were copied to myfs. I have no idea what is going on. I've been using refracta tools for years . . .

Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 7:01 pm

I uninstalled it, and installed 9.34 version. You're right. It was done in like a minute, and only 36 mb large. Can someone please help!!!!

Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 7:47 pm

Mine failed on both 9.3.3 and 10.0.0. Unfortunately fsmithred isn't going to be around much this week. Did you tweak any of the config files?

Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:04 pm

Nothing tweaked. Does an older version of snapshot work?

Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:12 pm

Check the error log. /var/log/refractansaphot_error.log (or is it errors.log?)
If there's nothing helpful there, run 'refractasnapshot-gui -d' or 'refractansnapshot -d' and check the error log again. (or post/pastebin it for me to look at.)

It should work without making any changes in the config file. Any older versions that I didn't remove from the tools folder should work.

Is the md5 file empty, or is there something in it?

I think the usual cause of a small iso (few mb) is not enough space. You need around twice as much free space as your OS takes up.

Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:25 pm

fsmithred wrote:Check the error log. /var/log/refractansaphot_error.log (or is it errors.log?)
If there's nothing helpful there, run 'refractasnapshot-gui -d' or 'refractansnapshot -d' and check the error log again. (or post/pastebin it for me to look at.)

Will email it to you. It's really long . . .
fsmithred wrote:It should work without making any changes in the config file. Any older versions that I didn't remove from the tools folder should work.

I tweaked both the config files and see I need to nuke more.
fsmithred wrote:Is the md5 file empty, or is there something in it?

md5sums were fine.
fsmithred wrote:I think the usual cause of a small iso (few mb) is not enough space. You need around twice as much free space as your OS takes up.

Plenty of space.
Code:
Size     Used     Avail     Use%      Mountpoint            Filesystem
28G     8.3G     18G     32%      /            /dev/sdb1
450G     189G     239G     45%      /home            /dev/sdb2
15G     5.9G     7.8G     43%      /wroot            /dev/sda1
55G     17G     36G     32%      /whome            /dev/sda2

Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:43 pm

Well, I was going to paste the relevant error message from the log, but I did things out of order, and it's no longer on the clipboard. To paraphrase:

libisofs: image larger than 4GB.

Add some big things to the excludes file: /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/snapshot_excludes.list

Re: No ISO image

Thu Oct 27, 2016 3:32 am

Rcflyer, any progress?

What kernel are you using? 4.x is compiled without support for aufs.
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