Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/ tty12 takes a lot of useless space. Why are you backing up /dev/ at all? Isn't it a devfs on Gentoo? -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Alan Brown a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/ tty12 takes a lot of useless space. Why are you backing up /dev/ at all? Isn't it a devfs on Gentoo? It has been replaced by udev a few years ago (2.6.13 kernel). I assume that he disabled the bacula option not to cross filesystem boundaries. John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
Unless you have a very odd version of Linux, the terminal output is NOT stored there. It's a device file. In fact, backing it up would actually be dangerous to your health (or at least your system's health) because on restore, you would end up deleting a device and replacing it with an ordinary file. Unless bacula was smart enough to remember the major and minor node numbers etc. - but why would it do that? These device non-files are essential for the survival of a Unix system - in fact, bacula itself probably need it already in place to access your tape drive or hard disk - and are automatically installed every time you boot your operating system. Don't touch it, and do not, ever, back it up. And if you do have ordinary files in /dev? Move them elsewhere. I don't even know if it is possible to put ordinary files there. So the real question is: why does /dev/tty12 appear to take up a lot of space? Could you type this command and post the output: ls -lah /dev/tty12 Mine looks like this: crw--w 1 root tty 4, 12 Dec 6 05:01 /dev/tty12 The c means it's a character device, not a file And the 4, 12 means: major node 4, minor node 12. Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: Hi, I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/ tty12 takes a lot of useless space. The terminal output is stored there - somethig that I can very well live without in case I have to restore a system from backup. The only way I can imagine it right now is to exclude the file completely and create a dedicated restore jobdef where /dev/tty12 is created per runscript directive. This doesen't feel right though. Any ideas? Thanks much. Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org --- Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, iPhone Dev-ious, Computer Science alumnus, usability guesspert and overall big time visionary -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. Please be advised that the unauthorized use or disclosure of the information is strictly prohibited. The information herein is intended only for use by the intended recipient(s) named above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the e-mail and any copies, printouts or attachments thereof. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
Thank you for your responses. Somehow I get the feeling that excluding a single file's contents is way easier than risking a failed restore. Since I don't mind the few MBs in /dev (except the hunderts of MBs in /dev/tty12) I'll submit a feature request regarding this issue. Who knows - it might be useful for other scenarios too. Stefan On 13.01.2009, at 00:39, John Drescher wrote: Have you tested a restore? If you are restoring to 'baremetal', then you might actually need something in /dev before udev starts, which is a bit tricky as it's 'under' udev... Not necessarily. If you're doing a baremetal restore, you already have to have to boot some minimum OS before you can run the fd anyway. What I have done several times is this: - boot a plain old fedora rescue CD - copy the fd binaries, config files, and diskinfo scripts onto it - recreate the partition tables and filesystems using the diskinfo scripts - mount the new partitions on /restore - done a full restore with where = /restore - reinstall the boot load - reboot into the newly restored system Since the boot scripts are designed to come up with an empty /dev and populate it at runtime, all you have to do is make sure the /dev/ directory exists. In gentoo, I believe its possible to boot a live cd (or sysrescuecd http://www.sysresccd.org/Beta-x86) install bacula on tempfs and get it to restore to a real harddrive without installing the OS first. I have not tested that though. John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org --- Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, iPhone Dev-ious, Computer Science alumnus, usability guesspert and overall big time visionary Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org --- Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, iPhone Dev-ious, Computer Science alumnus, usability guesspert and overall big time visionary -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Stefan Sorin Nicolin r...@nicolinux.org wrote: Thank you for your responses. Somehow I get the feeling that excluding a single file's contents is way easier than risking a failed restore. Since I don't mind the few MBs in /dev (except the hunderts of MBs in /dev/tty12) I'll submit a feature request regarding this issue. Who knows - it might be useful for other scenarios too. You can easily exclude a single file. That is in the documentation. John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
On 13.01.2009, at 13:48, John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Stefan Sorin Nicolin r...@nicolinux.org wrote: Thank you for your responses. Somehow I get the feeling that excluding a single file's contents is way easier than risking a failed restore. Since I don't mind the few MBs in /dev (except the hunderts of MBs in /dev/tty12) I'll submit a feature request regarding this issue. Who knows - it might be useful for other scenarios too. You can easily exclude a single file. That is in the documentation. What I ment was excluding the _contents_ of a file. I want to keep everything else (filname, permissions and so on). Stefan John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org --- Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, iPhone Dev-ious, Computer Science alumnus, usability guesspert and overall big time visionary -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
What I ment was excluding the _contents_ of a file. I want to keep everything else (filname, permissions and so on). Just exclude that file totally. I guarantee gentoo will not care as I have booted many times in gentoo using my home made live cds without /dev/tty12 John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
And also /dev/tty12 on my system is not a large file just a device node. jmd0 john # ls -al /dev/tty12 -al crw--- 1 root root 4, 12 Jan 13 08:09 /dev/tty12 One more comment about this. Do you have console output when you hit ctrl-alt-f12 if you do not I see the problem. The problem is that at some point you did not have a /dev/tty12 and that syslog-ng is writing to a file instead of sending the console messages to the console that you get when pressing ctrl-alt-f12 To fix this. stop syslog-ng /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop jmd0 john # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop syslog-ng |* Stopping syslog-ng... Then kill it to make sure it has quit (it did not on my system): jmd0 john # pkill syslog-ng then delete /dev/tty12 jmd0 john # rm /dev/tty12 Then create /dev/tty12 again jmd0 john # mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12 Then restart syslog-ng jmd0 john # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart syslog-ng |* Starting syslog-ng... John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:08 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: What I ment was excluding the _contents_ of a file. I want to keep everything else (filname, permissions and so on). Just exclude that file totally. I guarantee gentoo will not care as I have booted many times in gentoo using my home made live cds without /dev/tty12 And also /dev/tty12 on my system is not a large file just a device node. jmd0 john # ls -al /dev/tty12 -al crw--- 1 root root 4, 12 Jan 13 08:09 /dev/tty12 # emerge --info Error during set creation: Redefinition of set 'qt-split' (sections: 'kde sets', 'kde crazy sets') Error during set creation: Redefinition of set 'plasmoids' (sections: 'kde sets', 'kde crazy sets') Error during set creation: Redefinition of set 'koffice-2' (sections: 'kde sets', 'kde crazy sets') Portage 2.2_rc20 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.26.8-openvz-ext4-tickless-dirty x86_64) = System uname: linux-2.6.26.8-openvz-ext4-tickless-dirty-x86_64-intel-r-_core-tm-2_quad_cpu_q95...@_2.83ghz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:05:01 + ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox:1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=core2 -O2 -pipe CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
Thanks for the pointer. I see this behavior an 20+ virtualized Gentoo installations (XEN domains). I'll chech it. Stefan On 13.01.2009, at 14:26, John Drescher wrote: And also /dev/tty12 on my system is not a large file just a device node. jmd0 john # ls -al /dev/tty12 -al crw--- 1 root root 4, 12 Jan 13 08:09 /dev/tty12 One more comment about this. Do you have console output when you hit ctrl-alt-f12 if you do not I see the problem. The problem is that at some point you did not have a /dev/tty12 and that syslog-ng is writing to a file instead of sending the console messages to the console that you get when pressing ctrl-alt-f12 To fix this. stop syslog-ng /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop jmd0 john # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop syslog-ng |* Stopping syslog-ng... Then kill it to make sure it has quit (it did not on my system): jmd0 john # pkill syslog-ng then delete /dev/tty12 jmd0 john # rm /dev/tty12 Then create /dev/tty12 again jmd0 john # mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12 Then restart syslog-ng jmd0 john # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart syslog-ng |* Starting syslog-ng... John Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org --- Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, iPhone Dev-ious, Computer Science alumnus, usability guesspert and overall big time visionary -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Stefan Sorin Nicolin
bac...@nicolinux.org wrote:
Thanks for the pointer.
I see this behavior an 20+ virtualized Gentoo installations (XEN domains).
I'll chech it.
Oh. In the visualized guests you should disable the output to the
console instead. I had to do that with openvz.
Edit the /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
so that the following lines are commented out:
#destination console_all { file(/dev/tty12); };
#destination console_all { file(/dev/console); };
#log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
John
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Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: Hi, I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/ tty12 takes a lot of useless space. The terminal output is stored there - somethig that I can very well live without in case I have to restore a system from backup. The only way I can imagine it right now is to exclude the file completely and create a dedicated restore jobdef where /dev/tty12 is created per runscript directive. This doesen't feel right though. Any ideas? Thanks much. Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org As /dev is populate by udev I always exclude it completely . -- Bruno Friedmann -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
Hi, 12.01.2009 19:36, Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: Hi, I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/ tty12 takes a lot of useless space. The terminal output is stored there - somethig that I can very well live without in case I have to restore a system from backup. The only way I can imagine it right now is to exclude the file completely and create a dedicated restore jobdef where /dev/tty12 is created per runscript directive. This doesen't feel right though. Any ideas? Do you have to back up the /dev tree at all? Today, most linuxes I know create its contents automatically on bootup, or single devices as they are added (think hald and udev). Arno Thanks much. Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org --- Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, iPhone Dev-ious, Computer Science alumnus, usability guesspert and overall big time visionary -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Stefan Sorin Nicolin bac...@nicolinux.org wrote: Hi, I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/ tty12 takes a lot of useless space. The terminal output is stored there - somethig that I can very well live without in case I have to restore a system from backup. The only way I can imagine it right now is to exclude the file completely and create a dedicated restore jobdef where /dev/tty12 is created per runscript directive. This doesen't feel right though. Any ideas? Use the option to not descend into other filesystems to not backup /dev at all. John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: Hi, I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/ tty12 takes a lot of useless space. The terminal output is stored there - somethig that I can very well live without in case I have to restore a system from backup. The only way I can imagine it right now is to exclude the file completely and create a dedicated restore jobdef where /dev/tty12 is created per runscript directive. This doesen't feel right though. Any ideas? Thanks much. Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org As /dev is populate by udev I always exclude it completely . Have you tested a restore? If you are restoring to 'baremetal', then you might actually need something in /dev before udev starts, which is a bit tricky as it's 'under' udev... If you are planning on doing a base install and then restoring over the top then you shouldn't have this problem. James -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:03 PM, James Harper james.har...@bendigoit.com.au wrote: Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: Hi, I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/ tty12 takes a lot of useless space. The terminal output is stored there - somethig that I can very well live without in case I have to restore a system from backup. The only way I can imagine it right now is to exclude the file completely and create a dedicated restore jobdef where /dev/tty12 is created per runscript directive. This doesen't feel right though. Any ideas? Thanks much. Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org As /dev is populate by udev I always exclude it completely . Have you tested a restore? If you are restoring to 'baremetal', then you might actually need something in /dev before udev starts, which is a bit tricky as it's 'under' udev... This should be enough: [ ! -c /dev/null ] rm /dev/null [ ! -c /dev/null ] mknod /dev/null c 1 3 #These are for builds that require a random number generator [ ! -c /dev/random ] mknod /dev/random c 1 8 [ ! -c /dev/urandom ] mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9 #This is for initially populating the /dev folder. Without this populated I could not boot the installed system. [ ! -e /dev/console ] mknod /dev/console c 5 1 [ ! -e /dev/tty ] mknod /dev/tty c 5 0 [ ! -e /dev/tty0 ] mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0 [ ! -e /dev/tty1 ] mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 1 [ ! -e /dev/tty2 ] mknod /dev/tty2 c 4 2 [ ! -e /dev/tty3 ] mknod /dev/tty3 c 4 3 [ ! -e /dev/tty4 ] mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4 [ ! -e /dev/tty5 ] mknod /dev/tty5 c 4 5 [ ! -e /dev/tty6 ] mknod /dev/tty6 c 4 6 [ ! -e /dev/tty7 ] mknod /dev/tty7 c 4 7 [ ! -e /dev/tty8 ] mknod /dev/tty8 c 4 8 [ ! -e /dev/tty9 ] mknod /dev/tty9 c 4 9 [ ! -e /dev/tty10 ] mknod /dev/tty10 c 4 10 [ ! -e /dev/tty11 ] mknod /dev/tty11 c 4 11 [ ! -e /dev/tty12 ] mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12 BTW, this is what I use to generate gentoo systems from stage3 builds using metro. http://wiki.github.com/funtoo/metro or my fork of metro: http://wiki.github.com/drescherjm/metro John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
James Harper wrote: Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: Hi, I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/ tty12 takes a lot of useless space. The terminal output is stored there - somethig that I can very well live without in case I have to restore a system from backup. The only way I can imagine it right now is to exclude the file completely and create a dedicated restore jobdef where /dev/tty12 is created per runscript directive. This doesen't feel right though. Any ideas? Thanks much. Stefan Sorin Nicolin http://nicolinux.org As /dev is populate by udev I always exclude it completely . Have you tested a restore? If you are restoring to 'baremetal', then you might actually need something in /dev before udev starts, which is a bit tricky as it's 'under' udev... Not necessarily. If you're doing a baremetal restore, you already have to have to boot some minimum OS before you can run the fd anyway. What I have done several times is this: - boot a plain old fedora rescue CD - copy the fd binaries, config files, and diskinfo scripts onto it - recreate the partition tables and filesystems using the diskinfo scripts - mount the new partitions on /restore - done a full restore with where = /restore - reinstall the boot load - reboot into the newly restored system Since the boot scripts are designed to come up with an empty /dev and populate it at runtime, all you have to do is make sure the /dev/ directory exists. -- 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: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents
Have you tested a restore? If you are restoring to 'baremetal', then you might actually need something in /dev before udev starts, which is a bit tricky as it's 'under' udev... Not necessarily. If you're doing a baremetal restore, you already have to have to boot some minimum OS before you can run the fd anyway. What I have done several times is this: - boot a plain old fedora rescue CD - copy the fd binaries, config files, and diskinfo scripts onto it - recreate the partition tables and filesystems using the diskinfo scripts - mount the new partitions on /restore - done a full restore with where = /restore - reinstall the boot load - reboot into the newly restored system Since the boot scripts are designed to come up with an empty /dev and populate it at runtime, all you have to do is make sure the /dev/ directory exists. In gentoo, I believe its possible to boot a live cd (or sysrescuecd http://www.sysresccd.org/Beta-x86) install bacula on tempfs and get it to restore to a real harddrive without installing the OS first. I have not tested that though. John -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
