Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Monday 10 October 2005 18:29, Josh Fisher wrote:
Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Sunday 09 October 2005 22:27, Josh Fisher wrote:
Sounds like you are using the 1.36.3 stable version of bacula-rescue,
which will not work with a 2.6.x kernel. You need to grab the latest
1.37.x development version of bacula-rescue from CVS. You do not have to
use 1.37.x versions of the other bacula programs, just the bacula-rescue
module. You will need the source for 1.36.3 installed and configured
before making the bacula-rescue stuff.
I have made a CD-R using bacula-rescue 1.37.40 compiled against the
1.36.3 source. I believe the 1.36.3 source is only needed to make the
statically linked bacula-fd daemon. In any case, I was able to create a
rescue CD-R under Fedora Core 4, boot from it, reformat the partitions,
mount the partitions, start networking, start the statically linked
bacula-fd and then run a restore job from bconsole on another machine
and restore the machine. Once all files are restored it is necessary to
install grub in order for the restored machine to boot.
So, yes, it works. There are scripts on the rescue CD to perform most of
the tasks. The script to copy the bacula-fd daemon and conf file to the
newly formatted partition did not work for me and I had to do that
manually, but hey, it worked.
Thanks for the nice response and the confirmation that the 1.37.40 rescue
does work. I'm pleased to hear that someone other than myself has got it
to work. :-)
Do you happen to remember exactly what went wrong in the script to copy
bacula-fd and the conf file?
Sorry, it wasn't the copy_static_bacula script, it was the
restore_bacula script. It is a bit confusing because the Makefile and
several scripts that are used to create the CD-R are also included in
the bacula-xxx directory on the initrd image. The restore_bacula script
expects to find the static bacula-fd and bacula-fd.conf files under
/mnt/floppy, and so does not work on the CD-ROM version.
Oh, I hadn't noticed that. I've now fixed it and will commit it to the CVS.
Also, is it by design that my bacula-fd.conf is not copied to the
bacula-xxx directory on the initrd image?
I hadn't thought about that too much, and it appears that I just put a sort of
"template" in the bin directory (from where the restore copies it). I've
modified the script that makes the static Bacula to copy the bacula-fd.conf
that it finds in the build directory overwriting my "template". Perhaps this
will make it easier for you ...
Thanks for the comments.
If the client's bacula-fd.conf is put on the CD, then the CD is a
security risk. Even though root's password is needed to login when
booting from the CD, anyone could extract the bacula-fd.conf file from
the initrd image on the CD, create their own bootable CD, and possibly
convince the director into restoring the client's file to the wrong
machine. I can think of two solutions:
1. Don't put the client's bacula-fd.conf on the CD and require entering
the key manually. Possibly an ssh client could be put on the CD to make
it easier to get the key from the director machine.
2. Use mcrypt or something to password protect the client's
bacula-fd.conf file on the CD.
Josh Fisher
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Gordon Larsen wrote:
Has anyone tried/been able to build a rescue CD that works with Fedora
yet? The build scripts still look for the deprecated modules.conf and
raidstart on my system, neither of which are used any longer (replaced
by modprobe.conf/modprobe.conf.dist and mdadm). I can build a CD, but
a kernel panic happens when trying to mount the root file system when
starting up.
Thanks muchly,
Gordon Larsen
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