Dave wrote: > 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.
You can find directions on how to make and use the linux CD in /etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/README I would suspect that the biggest gain would be in recreating the diskinfo script for freebsd. This would guarantee that the poor sysadmin stuck with recovering the system from scratch would be able to recreate the same disk layout. Next up would be the equivalent of the grub/lilo scripts, with particular attention to re-creating any custom boot options required, such as device driver initialization parameters. Beyond that, I would bet that everything could be handled by an existing live CD package, such as the FreeSBIE one that Dan mentioned already. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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