[Bacula-users] Fwd: Re: Bare Metal Recovery Setup

Dang...keep forgetting to post to the list. Apologies. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone

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From: "Michael D. Wood" <mike AT itsecuritypros DOT org>
To: "Radosław Korzeniewski" <radoslaw AT korzeniewski DOT net>
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bare Metal Recovery Setup
Date: Sat, Apr 20, 2013 1:10 pm

Thanks for the suggestions. As of right now I could just customize for one server. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone

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From: "Radosław Korzeniewski" <radoslaw AT korzeniewski DOT net>
To: "Michael D. Wood" <mike AT itsecuritypros DOT org>
Subject: [Bacula-users] Bare Metal Recovery Setup
Date: Sat, Apr 20, 2013 2:37 am

Hello,

2013/4/20 Michael D. Wood <mike AT itsecuritypros DOT org>

Pick the image booting from the rescue CD and dumping to a blank hard drive and rebooting to a fully functional server.

Do you want universal functionality or customized for one or a few servers?

I ask because if you need universal functionality then it will be a very hard task to complete.

If it will be a customized one then all you need is Bacula File Daemon installed on bootable media - I entourage you to use any Live-USB distribution for that it is easier - and a set of bare metal provisioning scripts which take a rest. Those scripts should partition required disks, create any RAID or/and LVM configuration, create required filesystems on top of that, initiate a full restore from Bacula server and finally will install a bootloader. You don't need to write a scripts for detect anything and handling a bunch of exceptions then to parse available data for bare metal configuration with a bunch of other exceptions, etc.

I use LinuxBMR and Windows BMR functionality available on Bacula Enterprise. It is an universal BMR functionality and is working great.

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best regards

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Radosław Korzeniewski
radoslaw AT korzeniewski DOT net

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