Hi Frank,
Thanks for your reply. I'll probably start manually, grind out a
procedure by hand then look at the Linux scripts and see what if any are the
freebsd equivalents and try to bring them over. My goal initially was bare
metal recovery for my own use, but the more i think about this the more i
feel that this would benefit all bacula freebsd users who might want to do
bare metal recoveries. My problem now becomes how to genericize everything,
how is the linux rescue cd-rom created? That's where i am going to take
this.
Thanks.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Sweetser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula linux rescue CD procedure (FreeBSD)
> Dave wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I've never used a Linux bacula rescue CD at this point i don't
>> need
>> to do any bare metal recoveries of the linux box i have. I do however
>> have a
>> need for FreeBSD bare metal recovery. I've got a few questions.
>> First of all, has anyone done this or got far with it? What i was
>> planning was to use the section of the freebsd handbook as a guide, make
>> a
>> custom boot media, compile bacula-fd statically along with my system's
>> partition information, boot and see if i can do it. I realize this is
>> rough,
>> but my goal is to get the FreeBSD bare-metal recovery as comprehensive as
>> the Linux procedure. To that end i'd like to know how linux rescue goes,
>> i
>> imagine you boot, then run programs like fdisk and format and recreate
>> your
>> system, then use bacula-fd to load file and boot information? If anyone
>> who
>> has done this could give me an overview conceptually i'd appreciate it.
>
> That's roughly it, yes. The biggest thing to note is that at least for
> linux,
> there are a handful of helper scripts in
> /etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/bacula. The diskinfo script, for example,
> will
> create a series of secondary scripts that, when run, will recreate the
> same
> partion and LVM layout. There are also scripts to set up networking and
> help
> wth installing the bootloader. None of these scripts are mandatory (I've
> done
> manual bare metal restores without them), but they can be extremely
> helpful.
>
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> that
> WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL
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