When installing client (2.5.17) on CentOS 7, I receive “Did not find initramfs-tools. Installation failed.” error massage. Regardless of packages installed on OS. And what is more disappointing, is that to rerun setup, I need to uninstall client and start installation over again. Just reinstalling previously failed client, doesn’t bring snapshot mechanism selection back. I believe this is done intentionally to swiftly update client as we go, but on initial installation and specially when something has failed, this brings client installation to a broken state.
As suggestion: when something has failed during initial installation, like no dattobd or failed dm, maybe prompt on snapshot mechanism should be brought once again?
However, issue is that I cannot have device-mapper configured in anyway. Here is the part of installation script:
echo "Convert root device into device mapper device on boot (initramfs)? This is required for root device/filesystem backup. [Y/n]"
read yn
if [ "x$yn" != xn ]
then
if [ -e /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks ]
then
install -c "hooks_urbackup-setup-snapshot" /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/urbackup-setup-snapshot
mkdir -p /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top
install -c "scripts_local-top_urbackup-setup-snapshot" /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/urbackup-setup-snapshot
update-initramfs -u
echo "Info: You need to reboot your system in order to be able to snapshot the root file system/device"
else
echo "Did not find initramfs-tools. Installation failed."
fi
fi
However in CentOS 7 there is no such a package that provides this file:
# yum provides /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks
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* base: ftp.man.poznan.pl
* epel: epel.besthosting.ua
* extras: centos2.hti.pl
* updates: centos2.hti.pl
No matches found
This is likely some path on Debian-based repos.