From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 17:22:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB2B37BF16 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:22:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA23174; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:51:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:51:40 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Walter Brameld Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to do when your Hard Drive achieves escape velocity? Message-ID: <20000225175140.N21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <00022520010701.02808@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00022520010701.02808@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain>; from brameld@twave.net on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 08:01:07PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Walter Brameld [000225 17:49] wrote: > I'm sure I am missing the boat here somewhere, but I can't seem to > find any documentation as to how to restore my system in the event of > a catastrophic failure. Both the Handbook and The Complete FreeBSD > give some information as to how to back up data, but not how to do > the above. To me this seems like a valuable piece of information to > have on hand. > > If anyone could point me to a source, I would appreciate it I think the next step would be to restore the data? I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here, if you have backups then all you need to do is repartition and restore from the backups. Can you be more specific? check out "man restore". -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message