Hi to all!
I took the advice about loading a minimal OS config and then restoring from backup. I have another issue that may or may not be related to the restore...
I used "restore all" from the console, with files being replaced always and the "where" set to "/". However, after entering the "/" for the where parm the field appeared blank. No matter, or so I thought. Near the end of the restore process as it is trying to restore the sys/dev folder (some of which can't be restored because it's in use) the server ceases to communicate. No ping, not bacula client response...
I rebooted the server and after loading vmlinuz... I get an error saying that it can't find the root ("/") folder, and then the kernel panics.
I'm thinking that there are some folders that I should know to exclude from the restore, but don't have the experience to know about. I'm trying to follow the docs (not a complaint, just want you to know I'm not lazy), but I don't see anything different from what I'm doing.
Links to mail list threads and/or documentation are welcome - I'm willing to do my homework, I just need a nudge or a shove in the right direction - as are outright answers.
Again, I appreciate the features and quality of bacula, you guys are great.
Don.
PS. I'm willing to do some beta testing as Kern requested, but I'm booked through mid-October. If it's still needed at that time I'll be happy to help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Arno Lehmann
Sent: Tue 9/12/2006 12:54 AM
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem
Hi,
On 9/12/2006 1:39 AM, Don MacArthur wrote:
> Sorry to be so chatty-
>
> "Failure": when I eject the bacula boot cd, restart the server, after
> the POST when (I'm guessing) it tries to read from the drives I'm
> presented with a blank screen and a blinking underscore cursor in the
> upper left corner of the display.
Hmm. Which rscue CD? The one from the Bacula project? That, AFAIK, was
always rather limited.
IIRC, Kern started integrating Bacula into something else which name I
forgot (of course...) but a search in the list archives and possibly
through the ReleaseNotes might find something... ah, not what I was
thinking of, but look here: http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/
> Going to plan "b"; load the OS and bacula from scratch, and restore from
> there.
That should work - it's more difficult with windows, but I understand
you've got your windows recovery routine proven already. (BartPE?)
> I've seen no response to my posts, so don't be shy. Or, if you know of
> someone who might have some ideas please ask them to review the posts.
Ideas... you're welcome. By the way, for windows I use BartPE for rescue
purposes, for linux I prefer doing a minimal system install from the
distribution media (which allows me to change the disk /filesystem
layout using a GUI, which is needed from time to time, and once the
machine is down you can as well do some maintenance work :-) , add
bacula-fd + configuration to it and recover from there.
A completely static FD seems to be somewhat difficult, so in case of
problems I even install gcc/g++, the necessary development packages, and
compile Bacula - I found this to be more flexible than fighting with a
pre-compiled binary and its requirements. Usually, though, the
pre-compiled FD works without problems.
I never actually tried to prepare a "universal" linux Bacula rescue CD
because I found it much too complicated handling all necessary
ATA/SATA/Chipset modules, filesystem types, LVM1 / LVM2 issues, network
setups (rather the simplest part, though) combinations I encounter.
Arno
> Again, TIA.
>
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 15:22 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote:
>
>>I just got my second failure to recover. This isn't a production
>>server, but I need to know this'll work when I need it.
>>
>>If you have done a bare-metal recovery using the rescue disk, I would
>>appreciate feedback on how it went, and what challenges were
>>experienced.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 09:52 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote:
>>
>>>Also, I get the following errors during the make all...
>>>
>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>Begin making LVM formatting script(s) ...
>>>Done building scripts.
>>>./make_rescue_disk
>>>if test ! x"/usr/sbin" = x ; then \
>>> ./copy_static_bacula "/usr/sbin"/static-bacula-fd "/usr/sbin"/bacula-
>>>fd.conf ; \
>>>elif test ! -f ../rpm_release ; then \
>>> ./make_static_bacula /root/bacula-1.38.11 ; \
>>>fi
>>>cp: cannot create regular file `bin/bacula-fd': No such file or
>>>directory
>>>Warning!!! /usr/sbin/static-bacula-fd not found. !!!
>>>cp: cannot stat `/usr/sbin/bacula-fd.conf': No such file or directory
>>>Warning!!! /usr/sbin/bacula-fd.conf not found. !!!
>>>./copy_to_roottree
>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>>Again, TIA.
>>>
>>>On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 08:27 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote:
>>>
>>>>First, thanks to so many who have contributed to creating a robust and
>>>>elegant backup solution. It is the only one I could find that has
>>>>enterprise-class features, and backs up all my OS's (Win, Lin, OS X).
>>>>
>>>>rh: es4 2.6.9.42.0.2.el
>>>>rescue: 1.8.6
>>>>bacula: 1.38.11
>>>>both sources located under /root
>>>>
>>>>My task is to prove the restore process. I'm trying to use the boot cd.
>>>>If I should switch to something else that is better, please point me in
>>>>the right direction. My windows restore process went very well, no
>>>>hitches. I'm working on my Linux servers, and OS X is next.
>>>>
>>>>I've run through the process a couple of times and assume some error on
>>>>my part is the cause of the problem.
>>>>
>>>>I've tried it with and without bacula-fd ./configured as static.
>>>>
>>>>In my first attempt I compiled non-static:
>>>>1. start-network failed because the mask was 255.0.0.0 on a 192.168
>>>>network, and no gateway.
>>>>2. there was no bacula-fd.conf anywhere after booting. To determine
>>>>this, from / I ran ls -Rl|grep bacula-fd.
>>>>3. hard drive partition didn't in that the last partition created
>>>>exceeded the available space on the disk.
>>>>
>>>>I recompiled the fd from /root/bacula-1.38.11/ with:
>>>>./configure --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --enable-static-fd --
>>>>enable-client-only
>>>>
>>>>"make all" created an image that used the bacula-fd.conf from the
>>>>bacula-1.38.11/src folder, instead of the one from /etc/bacula.
>>>>
>>>>Booting this cd and running start-network again set a network config
>>>>with the wrong mask, and no gateway.
>>>>
>>>>So, before I spend another few days trying to patch this, can anyone see
>>>>what I'm doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>>TIA,
>>>>Don.
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