bare metal recovery. Bacularis provides a winbmr.iso ?

[Study It]

Hello Marcin

I need to perform a baremetal recovery from a Bacularis backup. The new bare metal hardware matches the backup client, so no possible issues there.

However, I can't quite figure out how exactly to perform the recovery , unless i have a live medium with winbmr.iso. How can I get one, besides paying for Bacula enterprise? What other ways are to perform a baremetal recovery in my case?

Thanks in advance,

Regards

[Marcin Haba]

Hello Study It,

In the past Bacula Community was providing tools to do the bare metal
recovery. It was called bacula-rescue but it was removed from the
community version a long time ago. If you are interested to see how it
was looking like, I am sure that on the internet in some place this
archive is still possible to find. Just type 'bacula-rescue tar.gz'
phrase in the search.

I am seeing there is still some documentation in the internet as well:

https://www.bacula.org/2.4.x-manuals/en/main/bacula/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html

Generally, about all the recovery process it is good to think and
design on the backup time (on the restore time it is a bit too late
:-) ), to be sure that everything that is needed, is backed up. There
should be backed up both data and metadata. By the metadata I mean all
information taken from the host to prepare the system for restoring
data. The iso with Bacula client and tools to do bare metal recovery
is the last missing point here.

In the Bacularis Project plans we have a task about preparing a
Bacularis iso but for a bit other purposes. It is a task a bit far
from realizing because of other more important tasks to do. However
now, when I am thinking about it, maybe it could be a good move to
join this task with the bare metal recovery as well. It seems to be a
very good idea and a very interesting task to do.

Currently we have too few resources to prepare this task, but if you
or somebody else reading this message would like to join to the
Bacularis Project and prepare (and later maintain) this type of iso
and function, that would be great. I am ready to help in designing
this task and advising as much as possible. There will be needed some
changes in Bacularis as well, but it can be something for me.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)