On Friday 29 December 2006 18:22, Christopher DeMarco wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 05:13:41PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > Yes, but unfortunately, it is a 1.36.x FD if I remember right, which > > *may* be OK with a current Bacula Director/SD (maybe not), but > > probably will not do very well with the likes of ACLs and all the > > new stuff that has been added to Volumes since 1.36.x. > > This is the only problem with the KNOPPIX approach that really bothers > me. But since my unlisted problem #0 with bacula-rescue was the lack > of packaging for Debian/Ubuntu, I was preparing myself to become a > maintainer of the bacula-rescue .deb. The alternative -- tracking > KNOPPIX dev to (a) try and shoehorn in more-current bacula-fd or (b) > build and distrib my own more-current static bacula-fd -- is much more > attractive to me :-D > > > > Bacula rescue has a lot over Knoppix for doing disaster recovery. > > Read the Disaster Recovery chapter of the development manual -- it > > I've been living in that chapter the past two weeks, don't recall > seeing anything explicit to that effect. But I'll go there now and > prepare my rebuttal... > > > > Generally I find that LiveCDs are not made to be easily modifiable, > > which is why I tried to provide an alternative letting you take or > > leave whatever part you want. Since there are now tons of LiveCD > > distros and much more documentation, perhaps the picture is > > changing. > > My position is still that staying out of the bootup process is best. > Let KNOPPIX, or MORPHIX or whateverix get me to a bash prompt and then > I'll handle getting bacula-fd running. KNOPPIX will boot the majority > of boxes out there, so I'll begin my Bacula work with the presumption > that I can boot and go from there. > > > > Yes, of course. I would be extremely happy if someone would > > document this and submit it to the project. Three years ago when I > > It'll take me about a week, but it's already part of my plan to > release this for general benefit. >
Well, after a comment someone made on this thread and thinking about it a lot lately, I don't think it is necessary at all to integrate the Bacula directory with any LiveCD. The only requirement is that the LiveCD can bring up some recent OS, and a network connection. At that point, you can simply ftp or scp or even download with wget all the information that is generated in the Bacula rescue by "make bacula" (i.e. the static-fd, and the prior state of your harddisk). In order for the FD to work, the network must be up, so in the end, any decent LiveCD that brings the network back up will do fine with no 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
