From: Carl W. S. <ch...@re...> - 2007-07-23 16:21:18
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On 07/23 11:41 , Rob Owens wrote: > > Why do you need to remaster Knoppix? > Part of the reason is so that after I go through the work of setting > this all up, I can distribute a BackupPC-Knoppix cd that includes all of > my hard work -- so nobody else has to do it again. I envision booting > off the live cd, clicking an "Install to HD" icon, and that's all that's > needed for the initial installation besides editing the config.pl file. > I think this would be an excellent way of distributing BackupPC. Ok. More power to you if I'm wrong and this turns out to be something that people will want; or will be widespread enough in usage at your organization that it's a worthwhile investment of labor. In some ways it sounds like the simplicity of Mondo restores (boot the CD, type 'nuke', and it figures out how to restore its archive to the HDD on the machine). http://www.mondorescue.com/ (Try it; it's very simple and very cool). > You seem to suggest that I can start with a single drive installation > and turn it into a software RAID 1 setup. I want to verify that this is > what you are saying. No, what I'm saying is that you should build your installation on some arbitrary system somewhere; get it working (but not full of data); then boot your real server hardware with knoppix, set up the drives with RAID; then clone your installation onto the bare drives. Are you familiar with cloning an OS installation across a network via tar+netcat? It's pretty much the same thing as using BackupPC_tarCreate to generate a tar stream and send that across the network onto a drive somewhere else; except you run a tar command on the sending side instead of a BackupPC command. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com |