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Rcflyer30

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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
Rcflyer30

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## Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 3:45 pm

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

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## 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 . . .
Rcflyer30

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## 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!!!!
golinux

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## 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?
Rcflyer30

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## Re: No ISO image

Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:04 pm

Nothing tweaked. Does an older version of snapshot work?
fsmithred

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## 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.
golinux

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## 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`

fsmithred

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## 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
fsmithred

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## 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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