Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:28:52 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disaster recovery. Message-ID: <009a01c6e964$82c49300$6401a8c0@grant> References: <038b01c6e94c$37144760$6401a8c0@grant> <45267AAD.5040905@mac.com>
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Is it possible to boot the machine using a 'live' freebsd silesystem via cd? Then setup the /mnt , setup the new filesystems, then use restore to briung the real data to the disk? I guess my question really should have been, if you install a new disk, or re newfs a disk, how do you start the machine, a freebsd boot disk? (without installing freebsd to the machine that the restore are going to overwrite anyway!). -Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> To: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: "freeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Disaster recovery. > On 2006/10/06 5:34, Grant Peel seems to have typed: >> so the question is ... if I have the dumps on one machine, and I just >> installed a new hard drive on another, in a nutshell, what are the steps >> to >> restore the failed server. Can I use the FreeBSD 'live' filesystem? Is >> ther >> a step by step (that I have not found) in the handbook somewhere? > > Honestly, the man pages are your friend in these situations, especially > the restore man page: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html > > See the "-r" flag especially, which includes a brief example. If you > are restoring from another machine, things get a bit more interesting > though, which is why I always like to keep around a Freesbie disk. > http://www.freesbie.org/ > Its nice to have a full OS on a CD available for use. > >
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