Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-18 Thread Jeronimo Zucco
On 03/16/2010 03:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 03/16/10 14:15, Gavin McCullagh wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier bare metal restores. (Bare metal restores should be easy and fast for all OSes, but

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/18/10 10:03, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: On 03/16/2010 03:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Doing this portably is actually a rather difficult problem because there are so many different partitioning schemes and partition table formats out there. It's a mess. Or we can used partimage based

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
On 03/18/2010 10:37 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 03/18/10 10:03, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: On 03/16/2010 03:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Doing this portably is actually a rather difficult problem because there are so many different partitioning schemes and partition table formats out there.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-17 Thread Matija Nalis
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:40:05PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 03/16/10 14:15, Gavin McCullagh wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier bare metal restores. (Bare metal restores should be easy and fast for

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-17 Thread Frank Sweetser
On 3/17/2010 6:11 AM, Matija Nalis wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:40:05PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 03/16/10 14:15, Gavin McCullagh wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier bare metal restores. (Bare metal

[Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Bob Cousins
The online documentation indicates that enhancement requests should be posted to this group. I'd like to see a small number of enhancements. Many of these have been mentioned before, so please just consider this comment a Me Too! to add weight to those who decide what is next. -

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Bob Cousins r...@rcousins.com wrote: The online documentation indicates that enhancement requests should be posted to this group. I'd like to see a small number of enhancements. Many of these have been mentioned before, so please just consider this comment a Me

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: - Data staged to disk on the way to tape -- allowing backups to spool faster than tapes and when tape drives are full. I'm pretty sure this already exists. http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Data_Spooling.html - Explicit capturing of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/16/10 14:15, Gavin McCullagh wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Cousins wrote: - Explicit capturing of boot and partitioning information for easier bare metal restores. (Bare metal restores should be easy and fast for all OSes, but that is easier said than done.) Do you mean backing up

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Richard Scobie
Bob Cousins wrote: - Tape verification option -- verify that the bits read back from the tape are the same as those originally written. Spooling to disk makes this easier. Also, if a tape fails verification, it should be easy to restart the write/verify cycle with new media. I used to do