On Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:54, Richard Mortimer wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Ruben Lopez > > Sent: 31 January 2007 11:20 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Bacula-users] Generate ISO's only > > > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible with bacula to stop after generating the ISO and tell > > bacula not to write the actual CD/DVD? What we would like to do is to > > store all the backups in a shared folder, and have one person > > in charge > > of burning things from this directory periodically. > > Hi, > > At present this is not something that can be done without a bit of > scripting and changes to the dvd-handler script (and maybe adding > a wrapper script around mount). I don't have time to do it at the > moment but here are the changes required just in case someone else > has time > > 1 - make dvd-handler write/add to an ISO and not a device > it also needs to do some magic to allow different iso images > to live in the same directory (probably using the base > volumename as a parameter) > 2 - make dvd-handler aware of the disk size (currently it reads > it from the disk itself at runtime). Basically the free > command for dvd-handler needs to return the size without > knowing the disk size > 3 - wrap the current call to mount in a script (dvd-mount?) > that takes the volumename and finds the appropriate iso > image. > > Finally I know that kern has a dvd-simulator script for testing > as I remember that doesn't actually write the iso itself so it > isn't fully useful but it probably has some useful bits in there.
Yes, it is a *really* crude hack of dvd-handler that rather blindly simulates what dvd-handler does and rather than writing the output to a DVD, it writes it to a file. It seems to me that Ruben to do what he wants would simply require him to write to file Volumes and limit them to the size that fits on a DVD 4.8GB? Then later, someone could burn those Volumes to a DVD. They could not be directly restored from a DVD, but they could be restored to a file then Bacula could do the restore. If I am not mistaken bimagemgr in the gui distribution does exactly that though for CDs. It allows you to track what Volumes have been written to CD with the information stored in the Bacula database. > > Richard > > P.S. This functionality would be really useful for DVD regression > testing. It would speed up the testing no-end whilst actually > generating the proper iso image. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
