Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-30 Thread James Harper
> > > > Fwiw, I raced through the instructions in the README file (never a good > > idea :) and it built me an iso, but when I tried to boot it I got: > > > > No filesystem could mount root, trued: cramfs > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > > unknown-block(9,0) > > >

[Bacula-users] Seeking clarification on bootstrap files.

2006-12-30 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I have a lot of bootstrap files from previous restore jobs. They are quite old so I wonder whether they will ever be erase or whether I should removed them manually. What do they serve when the restore job has long been run? By default the bootstrap files are writen to bacula's working directory

[Bacula-users] Bacula to the rescue - Thank you

2006-12-30 Thread Chris West
I have been using Bacula to backup my home network for a few weeks now, but have just had to use it "for real" for the first time (to revert to a previous version of xubuntu after a failed upgrade). Bacula did its job perfectly and I am now back where I was. This is just to say thank you to Kern

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula causing a FC5 machine to freeze?

2006-12-30 Thread Mike
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Mike might have said: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Mike might have said: > > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Mike might have said: > > > > > I'm not pointing fingers, I'm trying to figure out why one of my > > > machines will just freeze. The box is a FC5 that is up to date with > > > all

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 December 2006 12:30, James Harper wrote: > > > > What would help me the most would be to checkout the current Bacula > > "rescue" > > module from the CVS and run it on your machine and see if it works. I > > think > > it would be a good starting point. > > > > Fwiw, I raced through

Re: [Bacula-users] State of bare metal restore (more)

2006-12-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 30 December 2006 01:04, Mikael Kermorgant wrote: > > Well, after a comment someone made on this thread and thinking about it a lot > > lately, I don't think it is necessary at all to integrate the Bacula > > directory with any LiveCD. > > Hello, > > Having spent some hours integratin

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula projects,1.46,1.47

2006-12-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
Nice. Thanks. For those non-technical users, this means that Eric has already implemented item 21 on the projects list as a patch, which will be applied shortly after the next production release. Regards, Kern PS: On Saturday 30 December 2006 10:33, Eric Bollengier wrote: > Update of /cvsr

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Feature Request - Restore only file attributes and permissions

2006-12-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 30 December 2006 10:17, Eric Bollengier wrote: > Item  n:  Restore only file attributes (permissions, ACL, owner, group...) >   Origin: Eric Bollengier >   Date:   30/12/2006 >   Status: > >   What:   The goal of this project is to be able to restore only rights >           and attribu