Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
On 03/18/2010 10:37 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 03/18/10 10:03, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: >> On 03/16/2010 03:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >>> Doing this portably is actually a rather difficult problem because there >>> are so many different partitioning schemes and partition table formats >>> out

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/18/10 10:03, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: > On 03/16/2010 03:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Doing this portably is actually a rather difficult problem because there >> are so many different partitioning schemes and partition table formats >> out there. It's a mess. > > Or we can used partimage b

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-18 Thread Jeronimo Zucco
On 03/16/2010 03:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 03/16/10 14:15, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: >> >>> - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier >>> bare metal restores. (Bare metal restores should be easy and fast for >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-17 Thread Frank Sweetser
On 3/17/2010 6:11 AM, Matija Nalis wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:40:05PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 03/16/10 14:15, Gavin McCullagh wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier bare metal restores. (

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-17 Thread Matija Nalis
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:40:05PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 03/16/10 14:15, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: > >> - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier > >> bare metal restores. (Bare metal restores should be easy and fast

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Richard Scobie
Bob Cousins wrote: > - Tape verification option -- verify that the bits read back from the > tape are the same as those originally written. Spooling to disk makes > this easier. Also, if a tape fails verification, it should be easy to > restart the write/verify cycle with new media. I used to do

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/16/10 14:15, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: >> - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier >> bare metal restores. (Bare metal restores should be easy and fast for >> all OSes, but that is easier said than done.) > > Do you mean ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: > - Data staged to disk on the way to tape -- allowing backups to spool > faster than tapes and when tape drives are full. I'm pretty sure this already exists. http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Data_Spooling.html > - Explicit capturing of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Bob Cousins wrote: > The online documentation indicates that enhancement requests should be > posted to this group. I'd like to see a small number of enhancements. > Many of these have been mentioned before, so please just consider this > comment a "Me Too!" to add

[Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Bob Cousins
The online documentation indicates that enhancement requests should be posted to this group. I'd like to see a small number of enhancements. Many of these have been mentioned before, so please just consider this comment a "Me Too!" to add weight to those who decide what is next. - Clean/automat