Hi to all Backuppcers once again
In the light of recent harddrive failures, I'm wondering if you would
consider a new feature request for Backuppc, such as creation of
backuppc live-CD.
I see it as a CD based on any live-cd distro which already exists, and
can be some minimalistic one, which on boot
1. asks for a path to Backuppc pool area (can be as advanced as NFS mounted or
USB drive)
2. asks for hostname for which to pull backup (if multiple are present in the
pool)
3. asks for paritioning for a new drive and assignment of mount points according
to the stored in pool for the specified hostname (in the best case it
should pull that information from some meta data stored in the pool)
4. partitions the drive
5. restores the information
Or the answer to my wish -- "just boot live-CD, partition your drive,
make backuppc server able to access your host, start recovery".
Yeah - it sounds like an idea but it doesn't work for a single
host/backup setup - when backup is stored on another drive in the same
computer. so if system fails, you first would need to get backuppc
running to restore the thing, thus some live-cd at least with backuppc
installation is necessary. Is there such?
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Yaroslav Halchenko
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