On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 09:02:12PM +1100, James Harper wrote:
> Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioning
> etc, is there any reason that a generic 'bare metal' restore CD could
> not be made? It looks like the catalogs and bootstrap files can be
Ignoring the case of restoring the machine hosting the dir/sd, this is pretty
straightforward. I've done a number of bare metal client restores using a
stock fedora rescue cd roughly like so:
- perform a bacula restore of /usr/sbin/bacula-fd and /etc/bacula/ to an
fd on a working seperate machine
- boot the rescue cd on the new hardware
- when prompted, bring the network up, but do not mount any filesystems
- scp enough files to run the partioning and file system creation scripts
and to run the bacula-fd (config files, certs, etc)
- use the scripts to partition, mkfs, and mount everything
- launch bacula-fd and do a full restore with a where parameter of wherever
the new root is installed
- reinstall the bootloader (grub in my case) and you're good to go
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