On Friday 29 December 2006 00:54, Steen Meyer wrote: > Fredag 29 december 2006 00:20 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: > > > Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > > > * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Kern, > > > > > > > > > > [ progress on rescue cd ] > > > > > > > > > > > If anyone has some better ideas, I would appreciate it to hear > > > > them ... > > > > > > > Do you know mondo? It is a disaster recovery system that supports > > > > > many distros and optionally can use the distros kernel to build the > > > > > boot media. > > > > > > > > Yes. I have read about it and even downloaded it once or twice. > > > > > > > > > Maybe it would be a good idea to provide a bacula-rescue.tgz that can > > > > > be put into a mondo DR-cdrom? > > > > > > > > That's an idea -- at least for the part of the Bacula rescue that does > > > > not change. However, it doesn't help for the really cool part of the > > > > Bacula rescue CD that captures the exact state of your current system. > > > > > > I must admit that I have not tested the mondo system, but I have had the > > > thought that it would fit with bacula several times. citing their manual: > > > > > > "mindi creates a set of boot/root floppy disk images and/or a bootable > > > ISO image using files from the system it runs on. mindi will try hard to > > > reproduce the environment of its host system including loaded modules to > > > ensure that the system can be booted properly from the created rescue > > > media. mindi is used by mondoarchive(8) to produce the required boot/root > > > floppy or CD images but can also be used stand-alone." > > > > > > it seems to me that it actually reproduces just the basic setup of our > > > > system > > > > > on the bootable CD that we need to reproduce our disks. If the Bacula > > > client is included on the mondo CD with its original configs then we can > > > get the tarfile from the bacula server are we then not ready to go? > > > > > > Another thing that I have tried is the mklivecd script that is working > > > with the Mandrake and PCLinuxOS distros, and I see that similar things > > > have been created for debian and other distros. It comes as easy as > > > composing a command-line or config file that specifies what to exclude, > > > and then it creates an iso file that can be burned to CD or DVD. Then you > > > have a live CD that boots your system with the same parameters and > > > configs. Running on the CD / DVD you can install the system to disk again > > > - the wizard lets you partition and format harddisks and the it runs by > > > itself. If a script could recreate the disk setup based on > > > bacula-provided config files in case of an exact clone it could not be > > > much simpler. > > > > I've looked at a lot of these LiveCDs, including mklivecd, if I am not > > mistaken, and the problem is that most don't let you easily add files, and > > those that do, generally want you to have a 700MB free partition into which > > they can write. I don't have a 700MB free partition available. A much > > simpler solution is to use a loopback device, but since none of them > > mention it, I am not about to try it for fear of having my HD wiped out. > As for creating the CD, mklivecd is different in that it creates the cd from > the system that youre already running, so theres no need to remaster an > existing livecd, but you need the space in some directory of your choosing to > create the iso file. > > When running the CD most of the new ones can add smaller amounts of files and > add to configuration while running without touching the harddrives (unless of > course you have very little ram)
I stand by what I wrote in the previous paragraph concerning *adding* additional files to the LiveCD. > > > > > > So I think it is a very good approach to make a package or tar file that > > > bacula can provide to include in various types of rescue/live cd's. Then > > > it may be quite possible to go further from there > > > > For the moment I have succeeded in getting the Bacula rescue disk to build > > and boot on both SuSE 10.2 and Fedora FC4, so I am happy to have a > > preliminary solution. Creating a tar file from the current Bacula rescue > > is really quite simple, and if I have time, I will add documentation to the > > manual. For the record, it is: > > > > cd <bacula-source> > > ./configure for a static fd > > make > > > > cd <bacula-rescue> > > ./configure (as described in the manual) > > cd linux/cdrom > > su > > (enter root password) > > make bacula > > Thanks, what I didn't get here is that by installing the fd from rpm package, > I don't find a source directory, which is required by ./configure, and I did > not find a source rpm with the same version of Bacula. So I am not clear > wether the rescue option is available with the rpm install - if it is I > missed something or else maybe I can just download the source as a tarball > and unpack? Yes, it is. I showed only one way of configuring rescue. The other ways that don't require the source but do require a pre-built static-bacula-fd are documented in the online development manual. > > Regards > > Steen > > > > > at that point everything you need will be the subdirectory named bacula. > > Even simpler, just follow the instructions in the manual, which are > > essentially the same as the above, and everything you need will be put into > > > > <bacula-rescue>/linux/cdrom/bacula > > > > Regards, > > > > Kern > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Steen > > > > > > > > http://www.mondorescue.org/ > > > > > > > > > > Merry Christmas and good Luck for 2007! Keep up the good work.. > > > > > > > > Thanks. The same for you :-) > > > > > > > > Kern > > > > > > > > PS: By the way, just this afternoon I succeeded in getting my rescue > > > > disk to boot again, by making a few non-trivial (or more correctly > > > > non-obvious) changes!!!! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
