From: Yaroslav H. <li...@on...> - 2005-07-27 05:09:39
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Hi to all Backuppcers once again In the light of recent harddrive failures, I'm wondering if you would consider a new feature request for Backuppc, such as creation of backuppc live-CD. I see it as a CD based on any live-cd distro which already exists, and can be some minimalistic one, which on boot 1. asks for a path to Backuppc pool area (can be as advanced as NFS mounted or USB drive) 2. asks for hostname for which to pull backup (if multiple are present in the pool) 3. asks for paritioning for a new drive and assignment of mount points according to the stored in pool for the specified hostname (in the best case it should pull that information from some meta data stored in the pool) 4. partitions the drive 5. restores the information Or the answer to my wish -- "just boot live-CD, partition your drive, make backuppc server able to access your host, start recovery". Yeah - it sounds like an idea but it doesn't work for a single host/backup setup - when backup is stored on another drive in the same computer. so if system fails, you first would need to get backuppc running to restore the thing, thus some live-cd at least with backuppc installation is necessary. Is there such? -- Yaroslav Halchenko Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07105 Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT |
From: David K. <da...@ko...> - 2005-07-27 16:06:00
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:08:27 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko <li...@on...> wrote: > Hi to all Backuppcers once again > > In the light of recent harddrive failures, I'm wondering if you would > consider a new feature request for Backuppc, such as creation of > backuppc live-CD. That would be awesome! Last I checked the Mondo Rescue web site was in a sad state of disrepair. A couple of weeks ago the links were broken and it was mostly unusable. Backuppc with bare metal restore would have everything. David |
From: Kanwar R. S. <m3...@ro...> - 2005-07-27 16:34:20
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On Wed, 2005-27-07 at 08:46 -0700, David Koski wrote: > That would be awesome! Last I checked the Mondo Rescue web site was in > a sad state of disrepair. A couple of weeks ago the links were broken > and it was mostly unusable. Backuppc with bare metal restore would > have everything. I've been wanting to use Mondo Rescue because of its great bare metal restore features, but I like BackupPC's interface and method of backup much better. If BackupPC could integrate the same bare metal restore feature set, with a live cd and without, in my opinion, BackupPC would be just about the killer open source backup application out there. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com |
From: Les M. <le...@fu...> - 2005-07-27 17:09:58
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On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:33, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Wed, 2005-27-07 at 08:46 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > That would be awesome! Last I checked the Mondo Rescue web site was in > > a sad state of disrepair. A couple of weeks ago the links were broken > > and it was mostly unusable. Backuppc with bare metal restore would > > have everything. > > I've been wanting to use Mondo Rescue because of its great bare metal > restore features, but I like BackupPC's interface and method of backup > much better. > > If BackupPC could integrate the same bare metal restore feature set, > with a live cd and without, in my opinion, BackupPC would be just about > the killer open source backup application out there. I think all you really need is a scripted fdisk/mkfs to prepare the new drive before you restore the tar image(s) to the filesystem(s). Rather than build a complete live linux distribution that would be a monster to maintain, I'd rather have a small program that you could run to create such a script on each client (mondo must already have something like this) and store it using some convention for the name. Then you could boot with a current Knoppix or similar live CD, pull a copy of the script from BackupPC's web interface and run it. With that approach I'd probably issue ssh commands from the script or manually from the knoppix box to generate the tar image and pipe it to a local tar, but it might also work to pull the old ssh keys through the web browser, start the knoppix sshd, and let backuppc push the restore back. The only other step is setting up grub or lilo to make the system boot. If you know what you are doing you can do all this by hand but you may need a hint about the old partition layout and when you are trying to recover a needed system you can use all the help you can get so a fully-scripted version would be nice. -- Les Mikesell le...@fu... |