On Tuesday 16 August 2005 03:54, Chris Lee wrote: > Yeah I've been reading up on the developer documentation for bacula and it > seems that volumes written in a bacula-specific format. > http://bacula.org/developers/Overall_Storage_Format.html covers this. Back > to the original post, yes, Joe is correct in that I'm talking about backing > up to CD or DVD but not actually burning them with bacula. I'd like for > bacula to do everything except for writing the media -- just grow the ISO > and leave it on my server where I can retrieve and burn it later. > Specifically, I want to do this to back up large amounts of multimedia that > I don't want to add into my daily tape cycle. Occasionally I could just > manually run a full backup of said files and store it all on DVD, but my > DVDRW is in my win32 workstation.
I'll leave you guys to work this out yourselves as there is plenty of documentation on the net. However, a couple of pointers. - You can put any set of files (i.e. Bacula Volumes) in a directory, then make an ISO image of that directory and burn it on a CD. After that, there is no need for a loop back device. You simply mount the CD and read it. - If you want to create a filesystem that is complete in itself, then you need to use a loop back device. This is really necessary if you are going to boot from the CD or you are creating a ram disk image (i.e. a filesystem in itself). If you want more information on using loop back devices for creation of filesystems (not necessary for what you want to do as I understand it) or how to create an ISO image, you can look at the Bacula rescue code. > > Thanks, > Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [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 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 written to disk. The entire thing is one big file. If it's > > an ISO, then yeah I can mount it on loopback, if it's some > > proprietary bacula thing then I'd either need baculavolume2iso or an > > fs driver that would let me mount my bacula volumes. > > > > --Joe > > > > On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Knut E. Meidal wrote: > > > Using a loopback would work fine for a read/write filesystem. I do > > > that > > > all the time. > > > > > > Maybe I read too much into it, but > > > if I understood the original poster, he was looking for mounting a > > > loop > > > device/file, writing to it to create a file in ISO format that > > > could be > > > burned as-is into a useable CD or DVD. > > > > > > This is where I think there would be a problem. I doubt you can > > > expect a > > > useable ISO image after regular reads/writes/copy to and > > > > from the loop > > > > > back image file. > > > > > > Boy, would I like to be wrong on this... I'd love to be > > > > able to do it. > > > > > Knut Meidal > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [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 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 backup to > > > > DVD, though I > > > > >>> haven't looked very closely at it before. It has > > > > recently occurred > > > > >>> to me that I > > >>> might like to backup some of my data to dvd, but I don't know if I > > >>> want to > > >>> purchase another dvd writer for my storage machine. If it isn't > > >>> already > > >>> possible, may I request a feature addition with which CD/DVD > > >>> backups can be > > >>> performed but instead of writing to CD or DVD only an ISO image is > > >>> made > > >>> which can be burned later or on another machine? > > >>> > > >>> Thanks, > > >>> Chris > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> ------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > > >>> September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > > >>> Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & > > >>> Teams * Testing & QA > > >>> Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ > > >>> bsce5sf > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> Bacula-users mailing list > > >>> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Joseph C. 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