Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 07/23 11:41 , Rob Owens wrote: > >>> Why do you need to remaster Knoppix? >>> >> Part of the reason is so that after I go through the work of setting >> this all up, I can distribute a BackupPC-Knoppix cd that includes all of >> my hard work -- so nobody else has to do it again. I envision booting >> off the live cd, clicking an "Install to HD" icon, and that's all that's >> needed for the initial installation besides editing the config.pl file. >> I think this would be an excellent way of distributing BackupPC. >> > > Ok. More power to you if I'm wrong and this turns out to be something that > people will want; or will be widespread enough in usage at your organization > that it's a worthwhile investment of labor. > > In some ways it sounds like the simplicity of Mondo restores (boot the CD, > type 'nuke', and it figures out how to restore its archive to the HDD on the > machine). > http://www.mondorescue.com/ > (Try it; it's very simple and very cool). > > >> You seem to suggest that I can start with a single drive installation >> and turn it into a software RAID 1 setup. I want to verify that this is >> what you are saying. >> > > No, what I'm saying is that you should build your installation on some > arbitrary system somewhere; get it working (but not full of data); then > boot your real server hardware with knoppix, set up the drives with RAID; > then clone your installation onto the bare drives. Are you familiar with > cloning an OS installation across a network via tar+netcat? It's pretty > much the same thing as using BackupPC_tarCreate to generate a tar stream and > send that across the network onto a drive somewhere else; except you run a > tar command on the sending side instead of a BackupPC command. I'll look into that. But it sounds like it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I'm shooting for something that requires no user intervention when installing in a new machine. I think what you are suggesting would require somebody to verify that the correct module for the ethernet card, for instance, gets installed.
I found that there's a Debian Live CD. http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ If this has hardware detection that's as good as Knoppix, it might be a better option for me. I've downloaded and booted it, now I have to see if I can install it to the hard drive while leaving the hardware detection scripts intact. -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
