-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert W Hartzell wrote: > I have a project that I have been working on in my spare time that may be of > interest to some on this list. > > I have successively built a custom Solaris install CD that consists of the > boot image, install routine and statically compiled file daemon with about > 400MB of free space. During testing I ran into a problem after doing a bear > metal restore. The box wouldn't boot (no bootable disk). I believe now that I > know what the problem was but I haven't had time to get back to testing. I'm > pretty sure that I was using instructions for installboot that were for sparc > not x86 which is what I needed so I never successively installed the boot > image on the new hard drive. Here is an outline of what I have done. > > 1. Simulated a hard drive crash & replaced drive. > 2. Booted custom CD and let the install routine gather all the info for > an install (sys id, set up networking, plumed the nic and related) > 3. exit the install and mount the new drive on /tmp > 4. partition and format the drive as need newfs'ed and fsck'ed the partitions > 5. Started the file daemon and initiated a full restore to /mnt > 6. rebooted. > > Which is where the above problem showed it's self. The restore was 100% > successful so I think this project has potential. > > Wish list. > 1. boot the custom CD and enter into single user mode bypassing the install > routine completely. > 2. have a script that would complete all necessary work on the hard drive and > mount it to /mnt. > 3. have a script that would setup networking and related info. > 4. Simply start the file daemon and bconsole > 5. initiate a restore. > 6. reboot > > Of course this only works for clients. There is also about 400MB free on the > CD for other utility's and programs. The CD could also include info for any > number of clients each with config files in their own sub directory. > > Is this project of interest to any one? Any thoughts or comments?
Robert, Though the thread might not be one that you've been following, check out the "Rescue Advice for Director" thread. I was just discussing Solaris bare metal recovery earlier today. I'm very interested in this project. It seems you are using x86, but so are my client machines. My director is Sparc, but I don't see any reason this should be that different. What Solaris version are you working with here? Solaris 10u1 uses GRUB instead of... OpenBoot is it? I don't recall, at least on the x86 platform. I'd love to give it a shot on one of my machines. As I said in the other thread, I have at least 1 Solaris box due to be repurposed. I can do any number of destructive tests on it. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFER9/ymb+gadEcsb4RAvXmAJ9Eo30ka42NPdXo3S8zrdkE5RhIUQCgytLH wl/NPQN75XEuRABjL/3TH9Y= =PB/j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
