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Minimal boot image available
Posted: 11 Jul 2007, 10:23
by tor
We have now added a new boot image for Bubba. This is a "small" boot image primarily targeted at rescue/recover operations.
It can be found here,
http://update.excito.net/install/minimal/ and is used in the same way as the install image.
When booted Bubba will have a static IP of
192.168.0.50 and having SSH running on it. Log in using user
root and password
excito
/Tor
Posted: 02 Aug 2007, 12:14
by limpo
Great,
Is the hd mounted with this rescue firmware?
Would it be possible to add clonezilla server to this image?, so that one mounts a sshfs onto a remote server and copy an image of the bubba hd onto the foreign server.
Clonezilla server works locally on bubba and compresses before sending over sshfs to foreign host, for safe storing.
Why clonezilla you ask? Well its damn fast and it does not add empty clusters, so the image will be fairly small and it supports ssh.
/Limpo
Posted: 02 Aug 2007, 13:55
by osa
Is the hd mounted with this rescue firmware?
No, so it would be no problem to backup your hard drive
Posted: 02 Aug 2007, 16:44
by tor
Hi,
As osa says, the hd is not mounted in this rescue system. But doing so manually is very easy. And also note that these filesystems are writable. Boot it once, modify the /etc/fstab to mount the HD on a suitable location, reboot and you should be done.
/Tor
Posted: 02 Aug 2007, 17:05
by limpo
Hi
What I meant was if there is a possibility to ad clonezilla to the rescue image?
or if there are any other way one could backup the entire unmounted disc to a backup image or file. That would keep filesystem rights and such, for backup.
And that wouldnt be to slow, clonezilla is fast when making an backup image of gigabytes of data.
/Limpo
Posted: 02 Aug 2007, 18:04
by tor
Hi limpo,
I looked at clonezilla and it seems to be a complete livecd. A bit tough to get in on the minimal rescue filesystem
But it should not be such a big problem to do a complete backup using the minimal filesystem and a bit of script magic. Simply doing a compressed tar file of the mounted HD should do the trick quite nicely.
/Tor
Posted: 02 Aug 2007, 18:29
by limpo
Hi,
Then what about partimaged?
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page
/Limpo
Posted: 03 Aug 2007, 12:54
by osa