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This all looks really drastic.
Is there ANYTHING I should be backing up?
Will this remove all the nginx settings that forward connections to all my
webservers?
Do i need to backup my Antlets or any data they contain in any way?

-Kirk

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:16 PM [email protected] wrote:

Hi there and thank you for contacting Antsle support!

Kirk,

I also saw your other message to Daniel.

The following instructions how to reset the edgeLinux OS to version
0.12.1. antlets will remain and the root password will be set to 'antsle'.

**This will remove all docker images and containers.

I found that using 2 USB sticks is the easiest method. The first will be a
bootable USB stick, we recommend using SystemRescueCD:
http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/Installing-SystemRescueCd-on-a-USB-stick/
I use a utility called Rufus to create the bootable usb with the sysrescue
.iso (https://rufus.akeo.ie)

The second should be at least 32G capacity and formatted with NTFS or
exfat file system as one of the uncompressed images is ~16G.

Connect a monitor and keyboard or connect to the terminal via IPMI:
https://docs.antsle.com/setup/#4-ipmi

Remove all other USB storage devices.
Boot the antsle from the bootable USB.
Run the command

lsblk

Your bootable USB should be the last device (sdc)
Plug in the 2nd USB and run 'lsblk' again. This USB should now be the last
device (sdd). This USB will probably only have 1 partition but may have
two. We will need the one using all the storage space (see the 'size'
column). I'll use 'sdd1' in the example.

Lets mount the 2nd USB

mkdir /usb2
mount /dev/sdd1 /usb2

Change into the /usb2 directory

cd /usb2

Download the reset script, make it executable, and run the script:

wget https://static-files.antsle.com:8443/edgeLinux/0.12.1/el-reset
chmod +x el-reset
./el-reset

When the script finishes, power off the antsle, remove the USB sticks and
reboot.

** The new root password will be 'antsle'.

Login at the prompt and run the command

el-reset-phase2

Let me know how it goes.

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Thank you,

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HI,

Thanks for all this. It will be a big help. I don't think the upgrade will
help, because most of the issues started before the upgrade and only got
worse after the upgrade.

-kirk

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 10:05 AM [email protected] wrote:

Hi there and thank you for contacting Antsle support!

Kirk,

I was looking at your notes again and am wondering if you upgraded to
0.12.1? You only mention 0.12.0. This may be worth doing first.

upgrade-edgelinux

The reset scripts do backup your nginx virtual hosts files to
/root/virtualhosts/. When done you can cp these back to the
/etc/nginx/virtualhosts/ directory.

It is always a good idea to backup your data whether nginx .conf files or
data in your antlets. I have attached a couple of scripts to export
(backup) an existing antlet as a whole to a file and a script to import
(restore) the exported file. These are not polished but work fine for a
self contained antlet. If the antlet has a vDrive in a different zpool this
will not work. It will also loose the snapshots for the antlet.

scp or sftp the scripts to the antsle and make them executable

chmod +x export-antlet
chmod +x import-antlet

export-antlet will create a single backup file. This file is uncompressed
so put it in a location with enough space. Do not save to the root home
directory, there is only 16G on that partition. Rather save to a zpool or
to an external USB.

To export an antlet

./export-antlet ANTLET_NAME DESTINATION_DIRECTORY

Example with antlet named server-1:

export-antlet server-1 /extUSB/backups/

The exported file name will be in the format:
antlet_name.date-time.type.ipX.export

server-1.2018-04-17-09-24-37.lxc.ip10.export

You can also scp or sftp the .export file to external storage (another
computer) for safe keeping.
You can gzip the file before scp or sftp

gzip server-1.2018-04-17-09-24-37.lxc.ip10.export

and unzip before running the import:

gunzip server-1.2018-04-17-09-24-37.lxc.ip10.export.gz

And import an exported antlet with:

./import-antlet EXPORT_FILE_NAME DESTINATION_ZPOOL ANTLET_NAME

Example:

./import-antlet server-1.2018-04-17-09-24-37.lxc.ip10.export antlets server-1

When importing, be sure to use the same destination zpool and antlet name
as the original.
You can run each of these scripts without any options to get the help.

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Thank you,

Antsle Customer Support Team