Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-13 Thread Don MacArthur
happy to > help. > > Well, hopefully, I will have the new rescue working the way I want in another > day or two, and then documented within the next week. You will be free to > try it in mid-October, and by then it should be working at least for SuSE > 10.1 systems, which is what I am runn

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
should be working at least for SuSE 10.1 systems, which is what I am running, but I will be on vacation (a real vacation this time) from mid-October to mid-November. Regards, Kern > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Arno Lehmann > Sent: Tue 9/12/20

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-12 Thread MacArthur, Don
Title: RE: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem Hi to all! I took the advice about loading a minimal OS config and then restoring from backup.  I have another issue that may or may not be related to the restore... I used "restore all" from the console, with files bein

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-12 Thread Don MacArthur
Thank you Kern, Arno, and Erich for your responses. Please forgive my impatience. I need to be mindful that not everyone in the world lives between the Eastern and Pacific (US) timezones. I thought it was an unusual question that not many had experienced, and certainly not on the short list of t

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Tuesday 12 September 2006 01:39, Don MacArthur wrote: > Sorry to be so chatty- > > "Failure": when I eject the bacula boot cd, restart the server, after > the POST when (I'm guessing) it tries to read from the drives I'm > presented with a blank screen and a blinking underscore cursor i

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-11 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 9/12/2006 1:39 AM, Don MacArthur wrote: > Sorry to be so chatty- > > "Failure": when I eject the bacula boot cd, restart the server, after > the POST when (I'm guessing) it tries to read from the drives I'm > presented with a blank screen and a blinking underscore cursor in the > upper lef

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-11 Thread Erich Prinz
Can't supply any input, however I am keenly interested in the results :-) Just so you don't feel like anyone isn't paying attention to your posts. E On Sep 11, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Don MacArthur wrote: > Sorry to be so chatty- > > "Failure": when I eject the bacula boot cd, restart the server,

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-11 Thread Don MacArthur
Sorry to be so chatty- "Failure": when I eject the bacula boot cd, restart the server, after the POST when (I'm guessing) it tries to read from the drives I'm presented with a blank screen and a blinking underscore cursor in the upper left corner of the display. Going to plan "b"; load the OS a

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-11 Thread Don MacArthur
I just got my second failure to recover. This isn't a production server, but I need to know this'll work when I need it. If you have done a bare-metal recovery using the rescue disk, I would appreciate feedback on how it went, and what challenges were experienced. Thanks. On Mon, 2006-09-11

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-11 Thread Don MacArthur
Also, I get the following errors during the make all... ~~ Begin making LVM formatting script(s) ... Done building scripts. ./make_rescue_disk if test ! x"/usr/sbin" = x ; then \ ./copy_static_bacula "/usr/sbin"/static-bacula-fd "/usr/sbin"/bacula- fd.conf ; \ elif test ! -f ../

[Bacula-users] Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-09-11 Thread Don MacArthur
First, thanks to so many who have contributed to creating a robust and elegant backup solution. It is the only one I could find that has enterprise-class features, and backs up all my OS's (Win, Lin, OS X). rh: es4 2.6.9.42.0.2.el rescue: 1.8.6 bacula: 1.38.11 both sources located under /root M