On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, 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.
Dave: Would the FreeSBIE <http://www.freesbie.org/> CD be used to you? It is a live-cd, based on FreeBSD. They provide *all* the tools for you to roll your own live-cd. I know there is a FreeSBIE-based live-cd for HAM radio operators: <http://www.bfst.de/hamfreesbie/> Based on what they've done, and my own experience using FreeSBIE for rescue-like situations, I think it's worth a look. For example, I've booted from FreesBIE to copy an existing HDD to a new RAID cluster. cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
