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 schema:
> 
> http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Backup-partition-table

That page is extremely simplistic and assumes that all the world runs
Linux on x86 hardware.  There are many disk partitioning schemes out
there, and many kinds of partition table.  The MSDOS scheme used by x86
Linux is only one of them.  Bacula, if it is to seamlessly handle
bare-metal restore internally, needs to know about Linux/MSDOS partition
tables, BSD partition tables, Sun diskslices, Mac OSX partitions, ....
and so on.  And that's not even getting into the multiplicity of
software RAID and logical volume managers (MD, LVM, LVM2, Solstice
DiskSuite, ...) or advanced filesystems such as ZFS or btrfs that
incorporate internal RAID/LVM functionality.

This really is not a simple problem.  Believe me on this.


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