Hi, On 9/12/2006 1:39 AM, Don MacArthur wrote: > Sorry to be so chatty- > > "Failure": when I eject the bacula boot cd, restart the server, after > the POST when (I'm guessing) it tries to read from the drives I'm > presented with a blank screen and a blinking underscore cursor in the > upper left corner of the display.
Hmm. Which rscue CD? The one from the Bacula project? That, AFAIK, was always rather limited. IIRC, Kern started integrating Bacula into something else which name I forgot (of course...) but a search in the list archives and possibly through the ReleaseNotes might find something... ah, not what I was thinking of, but look here: http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/ > Going to plan "b"; load the OS and bacula from scratch, and restore from > there. That should work - it's more difficult with windows, but I understand you've got your windows recovery routine proven already. (BartPE?) > I've seen no response to my posts, so don't be shy. Or, if you know of > someone who might have some ideas please ask them to review the posts. Ideas... you're welcome. By the way, for windows I use BartPE for rescue purposes, for linux I prefer doing a minimal system install from the distribution media (which allows me to change the disk /filesystem layout using a GUI, which is needed from time to time, and once the machine is down you can as well do some maintenance work :-) , add bacula-fd + configuration to it and recover from there. A completely static FD seems to be somewhat difficult, so in case of problems I even install gcc/g++, the necessary development packages, and compile Bacula - I found this to be more flexible than fighting with a pre-compiled binary and its requirements. Usually, though, the pre-compiled FD works without problems. I never actually tried to prepare a "universal" linux Bacula rescue CD because I found it much too complicated handling all necessary ATA/SATA/Chipset modules, filesystem types, LVM1 / LVM2 issues, network setups (rather the simplest part, though) combinations I encounter. Arno > Again, TIA. > > On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 15:22 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote: > >>I just got my second failure to recover. This isn't a production >>server, but I need to know this'll work when I need it. >> >>If you have done a bare-metal recovery using the rescue disk, I would >>appreciate feedback on how it went, and what challenges were >>experienced. >> >>Thanks. >> >>On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 09:52 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote: >> >>>Also, I get the following errors during the make all... >>> >>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>Begin making LVM formatting script(s) ... >>>Done building scripts. >>>./make_rescue_disk >>>if test ! x"/usr/sbin" = x ; then \ >>> ./copy_static_bacula "/usr/sbin"/static-bacula-fd "/usr/sbin"/bacula- >>>fd.conf ; \ >>>elif test ! -f ../rpm_release ; then \ >>> ./make_static_bacula /root/bacula-1.38.11 ; \ >>>fi >>>cp: cannot create regular file `bin/bacula-fd': No such file or >>>directory >>>Warning!!! /usr/sbin/static-bacula-fd not found. !!! >>>cp: cannot stat `/usr/sbin/bacula-fd.conf': No such file or directory >>>Warning!!! /usr/sbin/bacula-fd.conf not found. !!! >>>./copy_to_roottree >>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> >>>Again, TIA. >>> >>>On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 08:27 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote: >>> >>>>First, thanks to so many who have contributed to creating a robust and >>>>elegant backup solution. It is the only one I could find that has >>>>enterprise-class features, and backs up all my OS's (Win, Lin, OS X). >>>> >>>>rh: es4 2.6.9.42.0.2.el >>>>rescue: 1.8.6 >>>>bacula: 1.38.11 >>>>both sources located under /root >>>> >>>>My task is to prove the restore process. I'm trying to use the boot cd. >>>>If I should switch to something else that is better, please point me in >>>>the right direction. My windows restore process went very well, no >>>>hitches. I'm working on my Linux servers, and OS X is next. >>>> >>>>I've run through the process a couple of times and assume some error on >>>>my part is the cause of the problem. >>>> >>>>I've tried it with and without bacula-fd ./configured as static. >>>> >>>>In my first attempt I compiled non-static: >>>>1. start-network failed because the mask was 255.0.0.0 on a 192.168 >>>>network, and no gateway. >>>>2. there was no bacula-fd.conf anywhere after booting. To determine >>>>this, from / I ran ls -Rl|grep bacula-fd. >>>>3. hard drive partition didn't in that the last partition created >>>>exceeded the available space on the disk. >>>> >>>>I recompiled the fd from /root/bacula-1.38.11/ with: >>>>./configure --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --enable-static-fd -- >>>>enable-client-only >>>> >>>>"make all" created an image that used the bacula-fd.conf from the >>>>bacula-1.38.11/src folder, instead of the one from /etc/bacula. >>>> >>>>Booting this cd and running start-network again set a network config >>>>with the wrong mask, and no gateway. >>>> >>>>So, before I spend another few days trying to patch this, can anyone see >>>>what I'm doing wrong? >>>> >>>>TIA, >>>>Don. >>>> >>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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