Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-26 Thread David Boyes
> 1. A snapshot of your hard disk configuration. > 2. A copy of your current Bacula file daemon that can be run on >a rescue system (i.e. probably statically linked). > 3. A bunch of scripts that can be used to do various recovery tasks > (bring up the network, repartition your hard disks as t

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:57, David Boyes wrote: > > > 1. A snapshot of your hard disk configuration. > > 2. A copy of your current Bacula file daemon that can be run on > >a rescue system (i.e. probably statically linked). > > 3. A bunch of scripts that can be used to do various recovery

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-26 Thread David Boyes
> Yes, I think that is a good idea. First, though, we must create such a > tar > file, which doesn't currently exist as such. If you load and run the > rescue > make, it will exist as a directory. One other thing that might be an issue is encryption information. I'm not sure if the current scr

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 02:10, James Harper wrote: > > > > Well, interestingly enough, I am just today working on the Bacula > rescue > > CDROM, and I have just about given up the idea of making a generic > rescue > > CDROM for a number of reasons that I'll describe below. First, here > is

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-27 Thread James Harper
> > Is there any reason that it can't be on the tape and restored first up > > as part of the DR process? > > That would be having the cart before the horse. The snapshot of the hard > disk configuration is to be able to reconfigure a broken hard disk or > configure a replacement disk. Until you

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-27 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: Hi Kern, [ progress on rescue cd ] > > If anyone has some better ideas, I would appreciate it to hear them ... Do you know mondo? It is a disaster recovery system that supports many distros and optionally can use the distros kernel to build the

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: > > Hi Kern, > > [ progress on rescue cd ] > > > > > > If anyone has some better ideas, I would appreciate it to hear them ... > > Do you know mondo? It is a disaster recovery system

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:15, James Harper wrote: > > > Is there any reason that it can't be on the tape and restored first > up > > > as part of the DR process? > > > > That would be having the cart before the horse. The snapshot of the > hard > > disk configuration is to be able to recon

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-27 Thread James Harper
> One time I stupidly did something like: > >rm -rf xxx. * > > while running as root and cd'ed into the root directory. My rescue disk > very > quickly allowed me to restore the 500 or so damaged files to my system > which > was no longer bootable (/boot was gone and a good part of /lib was

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 28 December 2006 06:18, James Harper wrote: > > One time I stupidly did something like: > > > >rm -rf xxx. * > > > > while running as root and cd'ed into the root directory. My rescue > disk > > very > > quickly allowed me to restore the 500 or so damaged files to my system > > w

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread James Harper
> > 28-Dec 00:51 testing-9bt6t7m-fd: RestoreFiles.2006-12-28_00.46.42 Error: > > attribs.c:409 File size of restored file /mnt/C:/D > > ocuments and Settings/NetworkService/ntuser.dat.LOG not correct. > > Original 1024, restored 16384. > > > > Is this just an artefact of Bacula extracting data out

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Steen Meyer
Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: > > > > Hi Kern, > > > > [ progress on rescue cd ] > > > > > If anyone has some better ideas, I would appreciate it to hear them ... >

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: > Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: > > > > > > Hi Kern, > > > > > > [ progress on rescue cd ] > > > > > > > If

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Steen Meyer
Fredag 29 december 2006 00:20 skrev Kern Sibbald: > On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: > > Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > > * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: > > > > > > > > Hi

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 December 2006 00:54, Steen Meyer wrote: > Fredag 29 december 2006 00:20 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: > > > Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > > > * Ke

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-29 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: > >> Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: >> >>> On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: >>> * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: Hi Kern,

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 December 2006 17:40, Josh Fisher wrote: > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: > > > >> Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > >> > >>> On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > >>> > * Kern

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Is there any reason that it can't be on the tape and restored first up >> as part of the DR process? > > That would be having the cart before the horse. The snapshot of the hard disk > configuration is to be able to reconfigure a broken hard disk or con

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2007-01-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 12:23, Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >> Is there any reason that it can't be on the tape and restored first up > >> as part of the DR process? > > > > That would be having the cart before the horse. The snapshot of the hard disk > > c

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2007-01-02 Thread James Harper
> What I would like to see, and where I would be happy to participate, is to > convince the OS vendors (i.e. RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Ubantu, > FreeBSD, > Solaris, HP, ...) that they should have an easy way for the user to make a > rescue disk that captures the state of the current harddisk(s)

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2007-01-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:30, James Harper wrote: > > What I would like to see, and where I would be happy to participate, > is to > > convince the OS vendors (i.e. RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Ubantu, > > FreeBSD, > > Solaris, HP, ...) that they should have an easy way for the user to > make a

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2007-01-02 Thread James Harper
> > If you are not taking a tape off-site every night, there is no need to > remove > it. Bacula can very easily handle the different backup levels. Multiple > levels and multiple tapes is no more complicated than one. That's what a > good computer program will do for you ... :-) We always enco