This email is interesting for a number of reasons. First, I never got the original email, so something is flaky.
A statically linked SD should never be necessary for a bare metal recovery. If you only have one machine, you must somehow reload the OS before continuing and a Bacula Rescue disk will be of very little use. If you have multiple OSes, then a Bacula Rescue disk can be very useful for recovering a broken system, and in that case a statically linked FD (rather than SD) is *very* useful. One can do a bare metal recovery with a dynamically linked FD, but it is much more complicated as you must first load all the needed libraries on the machine being recovered, and this is a bit complicated, so the Bacula Rescue disk does not attempt this, but rather uses a statically linked FD which means that only the FD and its conf file need to be loaded (it loads them into /tmp). If you cannot build a statically linked FD, then you can still do a bare metal recovery by simply reloading your OS from CDs or whatever then using a pre-built dynamically linked Bacula FD to restore the user files and modified system files -- a bit more time consuming but perfectly feasable. On Monday 05 June 2006 17:04, Christopher wrote: > > I know that it must not be required, because bare metal recovery is > > possible on Solaris, and a statically compiled fd apparently isn't. > > > > That said, I know of no such problem on Linux and that will likely make > > your life a little bit easier. Can't 'yum' be used to find this RPM (not > > TOO familiar with FC). > > > > ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > > > > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III > > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > > > > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 > > > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Christopher wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is it actually a requirement to statically link the bacula-sd for a > >> successful bare-metal recovery? > >> > >> If it is I would really appreciate a link to get the glibc-static-devel > >> for glibc 2.4 on fedora core 5. > >> > >> After spending endless number of hours getting bimagemgr and > >> successfully > >> burning to cdr to work, I find that the static version of glibc only > >> appears to exist for the development version of mandriva, though it is > >> possible that google did not pick it up. If compiling a static version > >> from source code that will not interfear with the already installed > >> version is possible perhaps someone will advise me. After downloading > >> and > >> reading the INSTALL file for glibc I am not exactly sure that a truely > >> static version would be built. > >> > >> If I can not get this final obsitcal solved I will be forced yet again > >> to > >> look for an alternative backup solution and abandon bacula. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Christopher Gregory > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bacula-users mailing list > >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > Thanks for the reply Ryan, but no yum can not find it. I had tried that > first. I read in the bacula documentation that it was required, and then > another part of the documentation seems to indicate that it is not. I > just want to get this working as I have spent a considerable amount of > time with this, writing a very much simplified documentation of my own so > that others here can actually re-install the backup server from scratch if > the hard drive was to fail. I have already had one hard drive failure > since trying to impliment this disaster recovery system. > > Regards, > > Christopher. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
