RE: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-13 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure)
Go to http://www.knoppix.net instead then. >From the change-log: * V3.9-2005-05-27 - OpenOffice 2.0 BETA (german and english) - KDE 3.4.0 from alioth - Kernel 2.6.11.10 - Small WIFI and hwsetup updates - unionfs update - dist-upgrade from sid Version 4 is currently only released on DVD, but the

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-13 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Dauer Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 6:40 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System Phil Stracchino wrote: > Michael Dauer wrote: > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-13 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Michael Dauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I guess I need more the bacula-fd if I want to recover the backup server - at least space for all bacula daemons and console, sqlite, and the catalog. I haven't attempted recovery of the backup server itself, yet. But it should be doable by booting

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-12 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In principle you are right, but personally, I would be a bit nervous restoring a 2.6 system using a 2.4 kernel. For example, there are often new features added to newer kernels -- e.g. ext3 probably was not in kernel 2.2, so trying to get back an ext3

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-12 Thread Simon Weller
> > In principle you are right, but personally, I would be a bit nervous > restoring > a 2.6 system using a 2.4 kernel. For example, there are often new features > added to newer kernels -- e.g. ext3 probably was not in kernel 2.2, so trying > to get back an ext3 system would be a bit hard.

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 12 September 2005 15:59, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting Michael Dauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > But I think most people here are doing sth like this. Isn't there a CD > > image with 2.6 kernel available which was prepared by somebody who has a > > better idea > > of what he is doi

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
Michael Dauer wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: > The current Knoppix CD does not yet support a 2.6 kernel (only the DVD). As > soon as the new CD is released I will build a bacula restore CD. That's OK; it doesn't have to, unless your machine has hardware installed which is supported only under a 2

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-12 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Michael Dauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: But I think most people here are doing sth like this. Isn't there a CD image with 2.6 kernel available which was prepared by somebody who has a better idea of what he is doing than I have. What Linux distribution are we talking about? Most Linux di

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Galloway
Moin Michael! not, so, the current knoppix cd does indeed support 2.6.x: The following "Highlights" are available on the download version of this Debian-based (www.debian.org) CD or DVD: * Linux-Kernel 2.6.x * KDE V3.x as the standard desktop with K Office and the Konqueror W

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
Michael Dauer wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: > > >>>How can I filter this files out during restore? Should I just add it to the >>>exclude block of the files set? >> >>Given your recovery strategy, that would be the recommended approach, yes. > > > Sorry I was not very precise. I meant I want