Hi Folks, I've just put the first cut of a udeb that's aimed at allowing people to use d-i to restore from a backup.
It currently only deals with a gzipped tarball available via wget, and it relies on the nasty hack of downloading a statically linked GNU tar for doing the untarring (as busybox's tar didn't turn out to be up to the job) Read more here: http://hands.com/d-i/restore/ There are _many_ limitations to this, but I have just successfully used it to restore a backup to a clone server, and then edit the hostname & IP address to suit the new machine, and I can certainly see that the small amount of by-hand tweaking I had to do should be automatable, which would make this a much more comfortable proceedure (it's already much easier as a result of having this package) Oh, and the templates seem to be largely broken, since they do get inserted (using the trick of editing the disk-detect.postinst in the early_script) but for some reason all the notes and text templates get blanked. Anyway, release early & often, eh? :-) Cheers, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
