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This is a page on backing up and/or restoring images on COSI machines. The main tool used is Clonezilla, which can be booted either by CD or off the PXE server on Metapod. The main portion is the same for if you are backing up or restoring a disk. Images will be saved to the /storage/images on [[Metapod]]. The interface is a curses-based CLI and follow each step as described below

==For Both==
<pre>
don't touch keymap
start_clonezilla
device-image
ssh_server
dhcp
metapod.cslabs.clarkson.edu
13699
<username>
/storage/images
log in as if you are ssh'ing into metapod
beginner
</pre>

==Save Disk==
<pre>
save_disk
choose the drive to backup
save the image with the format of "YYYY-MM-DD-Description"
reboot
</pre>

==Restore Disk==
<pre>
restore_disk
choose the image to be restored
choose the drive to restore it to
don't check the image
say yes to the remaining inputs
reboot 
</pre>

==Image Permissions==
The images stored on Metappod are written to only be read by
the user who saved it, so for anyone to be able to restore an
image, run the following commands in /storage/images

<code><pre>
sudo chmod -r a+r [image folder]
sudo chmod -r a+X [image folder]
</pre></code>

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