Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 18:21:06 +0100 From: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again. Message-ID: <1241198466.19500.8.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <200905011707.n41H7M6b021540@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200905011707.n41H7M6b021540@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Bacula is your friend, tried and tested http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html#SECTION0043150000000000000000 /Craig On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 12:07 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it > vanishes in a puff of smoke one day. One can get FreeBSD > installed on a new drive in maybe half an hour or so but we also > need to get back to the right patch level and then we can say we > are back where we started. If you do not have hot-swappable > drives which we mostly do not, What is the best way to restore > the full system? > > Can I use the FreeBSD installation disk in rescue mode? > The idea would be to boot the CDROM, go in to rescue mode, mount > the new drive which may be blank right now, and then use restore > based on the last dump of the system we are trying to revive. > > Thanks. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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