On Wednesday 27 December 2006 03:14, Frank Sweetser wrote: > 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
Yes, this works quite well, but it assumes several things: 1. your rescue disk can bring up scp, or you have an ftp server someplace on your local network where you can get the files. 2. your harddisk is not broken and doesn't need reconfiguring. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
