Thank you for your responses. Somehow I get the feeling that excluding a single file's contents is way easier than risking a failed restore. Since I don't mind the few MBs in /dev (except the hunderts of MBs in /dev/tty12) I'll submit a feature request regarding this issue. Who knows - it might be useful for other scenarios too.
Stefan On 13.01.2009, at 00:39, John Drescher wrote: >>> Have you tested a restore? If you are restoring to 'baremetal', >>> then you >>> might actually need something in /dev before udev starts, which is >>> a bit >>> tricky as it's 'under' udev... >> >> Not necessarily. If you're doing a baremetal restore, you already >> have to >> have to boot some minimum OS before you can run the fd anyway. >> What I have >> done several times is this: >> >> - boot a plain old fedora rescue CD >> - copy the fd binaries, config files, and diskinfo scripts onto it >> - recreate the partition tables and filesystems using the diskinfo >> scripts >> - mount the new partitions on /restore >> - done a full restore with where => /restore >> - reinstall the boot load >> - reboot into the newly restored system >> >> Since the boot scripts are designed to come up with an empty /dev >> and populate >> it at runtime, all you have to do is make sure the /dev/ directory >> exists. >> > > In gentoo, I believe its possible to boot a live cd (or sysrescuecd > http://www.sysresccd.org/Beta-x86) install bacula on tempfs and get > it to restore to a real harddrive without installing the OS first. > > I have not tested that though. > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org --- Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, iPhone Dev-ious, Computer Science alumnus, usability guesspert and overall big time visionary Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org --- Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, iPhone Dev-ious, Computer Science alumnus, usability guesspert and overall big time visionary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
