Hi again list I've posted some questions about the bacula cd rescue, but I've managed to make it work (or some kind of).
Here is what I did. I've installed bacula director in a Debian lenny box, using apt, and some clients using different ways (yum, rpm from sourceforge, apt). As it is just a test of a bare metal restore, I take it easy and get some time to investigate and read. The example I want to restore, is a CentOS 5.2, and bacula-fd was installed using yum (version 2.4.2). To make the cd rescue, I've followed the manual instructions, making first a static bacula-fd, and then using the rescue with it. The first challenge I had, is that the machine that I'm trying to restore is a 64 bit CPU, so I had to copy /lib64 and /usr/lib64 to the roottree to make it work (yes, I copy all..I'll try to copy just necessary later). Once the cd worked, I noticed that both using "linux 1" or "linux 2" gives me a shell, never asking for login, but suppose that there is no big deal with that (as far as you don't complain about security). The second problem I faced, was when trying to make partitions with the script included, and find that there wasn't a /dev/sda when boot. So I had to follow these steps: # mount -t tmpfs udev /dev # udevd --daemon # udevtrigger The rest can be mounted too: # mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts (need to create /dev/pts first) # mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev/shm It also made my ethernet card appear. Once there, I could run the partition and format script. Then mounted the file system (the scripts mounts it on /mnt/disk), but as lack of files (bash, libs, etc), the chroot didn't worked out. To make bacula-fd run, I had to create the directory "bacula" at /var/lib/. The next step was te restore, but here comes the problem. It starts the restore, but a minute or so later, the client gets out of memory and kernel start killing process (bacula first, and probably bash later). I tried making swap first, just in case: # swapon /dev/sda1 but looks like it never uses it. Deleting extra libs at /lib64 and /usr/lib64 is a shoot, but I'm afraid that it will keep consuming memory until a new "out of memory" and kill everything again.. So..any suggestion? any idea? Can I make bacula-fd flush the memory earlier, before it gets out of memory? or make it use swap? Thanks to all Cheers MartÃn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
