[Bacula-users] bacula linux rescue CD procedure (FreeBSD)
Hello, I've never used a Linux bacula rescue CD at this point i don't need to do any bare metal recoveries of the linux box i have. I do however have a need for FreeBSD bare metal recovery. I've got a few questions. First of all, has anyone done this or got far with it? What i was planning was to use the section of the freebsd handbook as a guide, make a custom boot media, compile bacula-fd statically along with my system's partition information, boot and see if i can do it. I realize this is rough, but my goal is to get the FreeBSD bare-metal recovery as comprehensive as the Linux procedure. To that end i'd like to know how linux rescue goes, i imagine you boot, then run programs like fdisk and format and recreate your system, then use bacula-fd to load file and boot information? If anyone who has done this could give me an overview conceptually i'd appreciate it. Thanks. Dave. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula linux rescue CD procedure (FreeBSD)
Dave wrote: Hello, I've never used a Linux bacula rescue CD at this point i don't need to do any bare metal recoveries of the linux box i have. I do however have a need for FreeBSD bare metal recovery. I've got a few questions. First of all, has anyone done this or got far with it? What i was planning was to use the section of the freebsd handbook as a guide, make a custom boot media, compile bacula-fd statically along with my system's partition information, boot and see if i can do it. I realize this is rough, but my goal is to get the FreeBSD bare-metal recovery as comprehensive as the Linux procedure. To that end i'd like to know how linux rescue goes, i imagine you boot, then run programs like fdisk and format and recreate your system, then use bacula-fd to load file and boot information? If anyone who has done this could give me an overview conceptually i'd appreciate it. That's roughly it, yes. The biggest thing to note is that at least for linux, there are a handful of helper scripts in /etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/bacula. The diskinfo script, for example, will create a series of secondary scripts that, when run, will recreate the same partion and LVM layout. There are also scripts to set up networking and help wth installing the bootloader. None of these scripts are mandatory (I've done manual bare metal restores without them), but they can be extremely helpful. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula linux rescue CD procedure (FreeBSD)
Hi Frank, Thanks for your reply. I'll probably start manually, grind out a procedure by hand then look at the Linux scripts and see what if any are the freebsd equivalents and try to bring them over. My goal initially was bare metal recovery for my own use, but the more i think about this the more i feel that this would benefit all bacula freebsd users who might want to do bare metal recoveries. My problem now becomes how to genericize everything, how is the linux rescue cd-rom created? That's where i am going to take this. Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: Frank Sweetser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula linux rescue CD procedure (FreeBSD) Dave wrote: Hello, I've never used a Linux bacula rescue CD at this point i don't need to do any bare metal recoveries of the linux box i have. I do however have a need for FreeBSD bare metal recovery. I've got a few questions. First of all, has anyone done this or got far with it? What i was planning was to use the section of the freebsd handbook as a guide, make a custom boot media, compile bacula-fd statically along with my system's partition information, boot and see if i can do it. I realize this is rough, but my goal is to get the FreeBSD bare-metal recovery as comprehensive as the Linux procedure. To that end i'd like to know how linux rescue goes, i imagine you boot, then run programs like fdisk and format and recreate your system, then use bacula-fd to load file and boot information? If anyone who has done this could give me an overview conceptually i'd appreciate it. That's roughly it, yes. The biggest thing to note is that at least for linux, there are a handful of helper scripts in /etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/bacula. The diskinfo script, for example, will create a series of secondary scripts that, when run, will recreate the same partion and LVM layout. There are also scripts to set up networking and help wth installing the bootloader. None of these scripts are mandatory (I've done manual bare metal restores without them), but they can be extremely helpful. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula linux rescue CD procedure (FreeBSD)
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Dave wrote: Hello, I've never used a Linux bacula rescue CD at this point i don't need to do any bare metal recoveries of the linux box i have. I do however have a need for FreeBSD bare metal recovery. I've got a few questions. First of all, has anyone done this or got far with it? What i was planning was to use the section of the freebsd handbook as a guide, make a custom boot media, compile bacula-fd statically along with my system's partition information, boot and see if i can do it. I realize this is rough, but my goal is to get the FreeBSD bare-metal recovery as comprehensive as the Linux procedure. To that end i'd like to know how linux rescue goes, i imagine you boot, then run programs like fdisk and format and recreate your system, then use bacula-fd to load file and boot information? If anyone who has done this could give me an overview conceptually i'd appreciate it. Dave: Would the FreeSBIE http://www.freesbie.org/ CD be used to you? It is a live-cd, based on FreeBSD. They provide *all* the tools for you to roll your own live-cd. I know there is a FreeSBIE-based live-cd for HAM radio operators: http://www.bfst.de/hamfreesbie/ Based on what they've done, and my own experience using FreeSBIE for rescue-like situations, I think it's worth a look. For example, I've booted from FreesBIE to copy an existing HDD to a new RAID cluster. cheers - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
