On 03/18/10 10:03, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: > On 03/16/2010 03:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Doing this portably is actually a rather difficult problem because there >> are so many different partitioning schemes and partition table formats >> out there. It's a mess. > > Or we can used partimage based schema: > > http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Backup-partition-table
That page is extremely simplistic and assumes that all the world runs Linux on x86 hardware. There are many disk partitioning schemes out there, and many kinds of partition table. The MSDOS scheme used by x86 Linux is only one of them. Bacula, if it is to seamlessly handle bare-metal restore internally, needs to know about Linux/MSDOS partition tables, BSD partition tables, Sun diskslices, Mac OSX partitions, .... and so on. And that's not even getting into the multiplicity of software RAID and logical volume managers (MD, LVM, LVM2, Solstice DiskSuite, ...) or advanced filesystems such as ZFS or btrfs that incorporate internal RAID/LVM functionality. This really is not a simple problem. Believe me on this. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users