On Thursday 14 December 2006 2:42 pm, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:41, Scott Simpson wrote: > > What is the state of the bare metal restore code (from CD or DVD) on > > Linux? > > I > > > recall Kern saying something that the code needed to be redone. I'm > > thinking of approaching that as my next Bacula task. Thank you. > > I've integrated the old Bacula rescue disk with mkcdrec, which is much > better at handling the details of booting across a much larger set of > systems. There are a lot of plusses and some minuses of the new system, but > at the current time, the implementation is not totally complete. > > I unfortunately won't be able to work on it until after the 1.40 release, > but it is #1 on my list after that (I need it for myself). If you want to > work on it in the mean time, great. Just pull down the latest Bacula CVS > module called "rescue" and build it following the old instructions. > Building it is the same as the old one, which is documented in the manual. > However, once it starts booting up, everything is quite different. If you > get to the point of actually booting it, let me know, and I'll tell you > what needs to be done to complete it.
Thanks Kern. Maybe I'll get a chance to look at it over Christmas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
