Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?

2005-08-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
TED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Joe Stump > > Sent: Monday, 15 August, 2005 18:48 > > To: Knut E.Meidal > > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? > > > > Yeah, the original post

RE: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?

2005-08-15 Thread Chris Lee
Of Joe Stump > Sent: Monday, 15 August, 2005 18:48 > To: Knut E.Meidal > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? > > Yeah, the original post was about creating (full?) backups directly > as images. Ie. instead of a bacula vol

RE: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?

2005-08-15 Thread Knut E. Meidal
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? Yeah, the original post was about creating (full?) backups directly as images. Ie. instead of a bacula volume the volume would be an ISO file that he could then burn. What I was asking is if there is any way to mount a bacula volume that was

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?

2005-08-15 Thread Joe Stump
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Kugler Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:18 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? What about using a loopback? j- k- On Monday 15 August 2005 14:20, Joe Stump wrote: This is sort like something

RE: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?

2005-08-15 Thread Knut E. Meidal
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Kugler Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:18 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? What about using a loopback? j- k- On Monday 15 August 2005 14:20, Joe Stump wrote: > This

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?

2005-08-15 Thread Joshua Kugler
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1 seek=`expr 1024 \* 4096` of=image.bin As root: losetup /dev/loop7 image.bin Then you can access that as a drive (partition with fdisk, etc). I'm not sure of the specifics of mounting, etc, but googling for loopback should get you going. j- k- On Monday 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?

2005-08-15 Thread Joe Stump
Is this possible? Are there any docs showing how to do this? --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Joshua Kugler wrote: What about using a loopback? j- k- On Monday 15 August 2005 14:20, Joe Stump wrote: This is sort like something I was thinking about. It would pretty much kick ass i

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?

2005-08-15 Thread Joshua Kugler
What about using a loopback? j- k- On Monday 15 August 2005 14:20, Joe Stump wrote: > This is sort like something I was thinking about. It would pretty > much kick ass if I could mount -t bacula /path/to/fullbackup. As in a > Linux file system driver or something for bacula volumes. > > -

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?

2005-08-15 Thread Joe Stump
This is sort like something I was thinking about. It would pretty much kick ass if I could mount -t bacula /path/to/fullbackup. As in a Linux file system driver or something for bacula volumes. --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Chris Lee wrote: I know that there has been a lot of work on b