Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:51:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disaster recovery. Message-ID: <20061006175140.GC65461@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <000c01c6e96a$e343bbb0$6401a8c0@grant> References: <038b01c6e94c$37144760$6401a8c0@grant> <45267AAD.5040905@mac.com> <009a01c6e964$82c49300$6401a8c0@grant> <20061006163614.GB65461@dan.emsphone.com> <000c01c6e96a$e343bbb0$6401a8c0@grant>
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In the last episode (Oct 06), Grant Peel said: > Possibly the last few questions. > > 1. After fdisk/disklabel/newfs, how do you drop to the shell (can I > drop to tcsh?). In sysinstall, pick Fixit, then CDROM/DVD. The default shell is /bin/sh, but since you're on a livecd, you can switch to tcsh. > 2. Once in that shell, are all shell commands avialable? (or at least > mount, cp, restore, etc). Yep. You can also do this stuff with just boot floppies, but in this case, you'll just get the bare minimum commands (ifconfig, mount, restore). > 3. If the old disk is 36 GIG and the new disk is 74 GIG, AND I > partition every filesystem bigger than the old ones on the old disk, > then do the restore of the 4 filesystems, will it work or do the new > filesystems really need to be exactly the same size? Restore is file-based, so it can restore onto anything. You can even go from a split root/var/usr system to an all-in-one-fs setup and back. > 4. All my servers are capable of pxe boot. Would it be worth while > adding a disk to a server with nothing else than a fresh virgin > install of freebsd (I have 0 exp with pxe, so if I am off here > forgive me). If nothing else, pxe's fun to play with. I've mainly just used it to serve up pxegrub so I can boot a system where I accidentally blew away the bootblocks or cleared the active flag on all my fdisk partitions. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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