Re: autoinstallation using images in oS13.2?

Hello,

Johannes Meixner <[email protected]> wrote on 19/02/2015 10:59:36:

> Hello,
> 
> On Feb 19 10:25 [email protected] 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_native_disaster_recovery_with_AutoYaST_look_like.3F

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.


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