Re: [Bacula-users] Fedora

[Josh Fisher]

Kern Sibbald wrote: On Sunday 09 October 2005 22:27, Josh Fisher wrote: Sounds like you are using the 1.36.3 stable version of bacula-rescue, which will not work with a 2.6.x kernel. You need to grab the latest 1.37.x development version of bacula-rescue from CVS. You do not have to use 1.37.x versions of the other bacula programs, just the bacula-rescue module. You will need the source for 1.36.3 installed and configured before making the bacula-rescue stuff. I have made a CD-R using bacula-rescue 1.37.40 compiled against the 1.36.3 source. I believe the 1.36.3 source is only needed to make the statically linked bacula-fd daemon. In any case, I was able to create a rescue CD-R under Fedora Core 4, boot from it, reformat the partitions, mount the partitions, start networking, start the statically linked bacula-fd and then run a restore job from bconsole on another machine and restore the machine. Once all files are restored it is necessary to install grub in order for the restored machine to boot. So, yes, it works. There are scripts on the rescue CD to perform most of the tasks. The script to copy the bacula-fd daemon and conf file to the newly formatted partition did not work for me and I had to do that manually, but hey, it worked. Thanks for the nice response and the confirmation that the 1.37.40 rescue does work. I'm pleased to hear that someone other than myself has got it to work. :-) Do you happen to remember exactly what went wrong in the script to copy bacula-fd and the conf file? Sorry, it wasn't the copy_static_bacula script, it was the restore_bacula script. It is a bit confusing because the Makefile and several scripts that are used to create the CD-R are also included in the bacula-xxx directory on the initrd image. The restore_bacula script expects to find the static bacula-fd and bacula-fd.conf files under /mnt/floppy, and so does not work on the CD-ROM version. Also, is it by design that my bacula-fd.conf is not copied to the bacula-xxx directory on the initrd image? Josh Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gordon Larsen wrote: Has anyone tried/been able to build a rescue CD that works with Fedora yet? The build scripts still look for the deprecated modules.conf and raidstart on my system, neither of which are used any longer (replaced by modprobe.conf/modprobe.conf.dist and mdadm). I can build a CD, but a kernel panic happens when trying to mount the root file system when starting up. Thanks muchly, Gordon Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users