On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:33, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-27-07 at 08:46 -0700, David Koski wrote:
> > That would be awesome! Last I checked the Mondo Rescue web site was in
> > a sad state of disrepair. A couple of weeks ago the links were broken
> > and it was mostly unusable. Backuppc with bare metal restore would
> > have everything.
>
> I've been wanting to use Mondo Rescue because of its great bare metal
> restore features, but I like BackupPC's interface and method of backup
> much better.
>
> If BackupPC could integrate the same bare metal restore feature set,
> with a live cd and without, in my opinion, BackupPC would be just about
> the killer open source backup application out there.
I think all you really need is a scripted fdisk/mkfs to prepare the
new drive before you restore the tar image(s) to the filesystem(s).
Rather than build a complete live linux distribution that would be
a monster to maintain, I'd rather have a small program that you could
run to create such a script on each client (mondo must already have
something like this) and store it using some convention for the name.
Then you could boot with a current Knoppix or similar live CD, pull
a copy of the script from BackupPC's web interface and run it. With
that approach I'd probably issue ssh commands from the script or
manually from the knoppix box to generate the tar image and pipe
it to a local tar, but it might also work to pull the old ssh keys
through the web browser, start the knoppix sshd, and let backuppc
push the restore back. The only other step is setting up grub or
lilo to make the system boot. If you know what you are doing you
can do all this by hand but you may need a hint about the old partition
layout and when you are trying to recover a needed system you can
use all the help you can get so a fully-scripted version would be
nice.
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Les Mikesell
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