Acronis True Image Linux

[Amilcar Labrosse]

Pleasecan anyone advise if Acronis true image can be used to take a image backup of the disk on sco unixware 7.1.4 and what version of software would I need to use this. The FS are vxfs. Would I need to power off the server before I can use this.

I have been working on an restore image of Linux Mint with OctoPrint preconfigured. In this version I did not configure the OctoPrint Servers, but I am planning to make another image where the OctoPrint Servers are already configured and also have it preconfigured with

UI Customizer is already installed and configured for a tablet use, Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and above.

Is this ok, and would a Windows 10 and Windows 11 version be ok (Trying to compress them better, but they work, do you think users would download a 16gb version of windows?). I plan to configure them with UI Customizer.

Typically when we've seen images created like this using a cloning/disk imaging application the instance will contain credentials and such from the first run wizard as well as logins, etc. This is not the case with the octopi image, and curious if you are accounting for all of that as well?

I developed it on one machine, then imaged in on another and it work fine, you just need to update it as I explained. Different machine, different drivers and such. Connect to WiFi and" sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade", then reboot. It should work.

I have been using Clonezilla and Acronis True Image for years, and before that Symantec Ghost (From the way back machine). I know in the past Windows really did not like being imaged on one machine and then restored on another. Microsoft has seemed to resolve this issue in windows 10 and 11. As for Linux, this is only my second time imaging and restoring. I once developed a multi-operating system image for a MakerSpace that had Windows 10, and a few different flavors of Linux. It worked great.

I developed it for use on Microsoft Surface Pro Tablets. That was what I wanted and I already made an image of Windows 10 and 11 that I tested and use. I tried a few Linux flavors and Linux Mint is just the best developed disto for this job in my opinion. I like the way the Linux Mint version came out so I shared it. I am still working on the Windows 10 and 11 trying to get them into a smaller image, disable windows update as it can cause issue, and is not really necessary for this type use.

This is my Google Drive OctoPrint Folder with all of the images I have made. In the Windows 10 and 11 folders I have provide screenshots. For the Windows 10 and Windows 11 images, the user is a local account without a password assigned. OctoPrint is already configured with UI Customizer and my one of my JG Maker Printers, the user login is User="pi", Password="popnot123" With the Windows versions I installed build tools and python for all users. The OctoPrint Folder is in the root of C:, so if someone decided they wanted to login with their Microsoft account, or create a different account, all of the shortcuts will still work.

As @PrintedWeezl noted, global API key, UUIDs, tracking IDs, secret key used for hashing passwords and cookies being shared is a HUGE issue and an image including any of these is to be considered tainted and not recommended to be used. Add to that anything like server SSH keys and self signed SSL certificates that are usually generated on first boot by the OS and you've just opened up anyone using this image to a man-in-the-middle attack.

I wrote CustoPiZer specifically to allow people to adjust existing images like OctoPi further to their liking without an initial boot up that generates all kind of fragments that are supposed to be unique but no longer are if you just pack up a once booted image again.

@PrintedWeezl , @foosel With some help from Makerspace friends, is there a reality where you want an image like this to exist? If so, what exactly do I need to scrub to make it expectable. I want to help, just let me know how?

That wasn't my concern

We just wanted to warn you that Octoprint and some applications and tools generate secure keys on first start.

If you don't remove them from your image, everyone knows them and they aren't secure anymore.

(depending on which key it was you also have to add something to the image that generates new keys at first boot)

With some help from Makerspace friends, is there a reality where you want an image like this to exist? If so, what exactly do I need to scrub to make it expectable. I want to help, just let me know how?

So if I understand correctly the config.yaml file is in the .octoprint folder and I should delete the entire directory. The community user will still be able to benefit from the preconfigured fruits of my labor? Meaning OctoPrint will still load?

I will also make sure to let everyone know it is an unofficial contribution. I will likely edit my videos to account for this. Do I need to remove all of the graphics? I want to respect the OctoPrint brand.

1.) What I do is images the live USB restore image of Clonezilla or true image.

2.) Then I boot up on a Linux Mint USB and use gParted to shrink the bootable live partition down to its smallest passible size.

3.) Then I partition the free space to give me a drive for the restore image.

4.) I reboot and boot from the live true image or clonezilla and make an image of the disk onto the free-space I partitioned and formatted. So only one USB is need by the end user.

5.) boot into Linux mint and use gParted to shrink the Clonezilla or true image partition leaving the unused space unallocated.

6.) Then I open up Disk and make an image of the usb, so a 32gb falshdrive produces a 32gb image file regardless if 22gb are just unused drive space.

7.) I open terminal and do some command magic and shrink the image down to the size of the actual partitions removing the unallocated space.

8.) This way you can take a 32gb image that only needs to be 10GB, and trim it down to an image that is only 10GB so it can be imaged to a 16GB drive if desired.

In this security lesson I also discovered I did not do the USB trick on the imaged hard disk. Now I should be able to get my images smaller, and if my image is only 4gb, then they can remote it to anything.

My interpretation is that is quite a lot of work for something that doesn't need to be. If you see my link for Cubic above, you can modify the live image with everything you need, then allow the user to install the distro as they normally would. This takes care of all the security issues and image size, while allowing you to setup your custom user, service(s), etc.

Acronis True Image Workstation is apowerfull backup program for your workstation. You can create a CDwhich you can use to backup all your partitions to network orattachted storage. Later on you can do a bare metal restore from your backups.

However if you want to backup your computers regularily dealing withthe CD is boring and beeing able to use the Acronis software via anetwork (PXE) boot is really convenient. The following steps show youhow to setup a network booted Acronis True Image withthe pxelinux networkboot environment. They were tested with Acronis Workstation 9.1 and9.5, name the files listed below according to your version.

You can also use the acronis kernel and initrd files to boot froman external (USB) harddisk. This is handy if you want to make backupsto the external harddisk and start acronis right from your backupmedia. You can useeither syslinuxor grub (or any otherbootloader capable of loading linux) to start acronis.

You can use something called dd on linux, Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image. The easiest might be dd because you download live linux image to usb. I remember was i visited the Cleveland FBI Cyber Forensics Lab they used dd to do disk image from hard drives.

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