From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 21:25:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12406 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:25:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12348 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:25:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA04275; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:25:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: support@vegasnet.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: probably foolish question In-Reply-To: <000201bd9f10$b8de2020$cb7e93d0@spacey.vegasnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Stacey Jenkins wrote: > I work at a mid-size ISP in the Las Vegas area. As we've been > upgrading, we're replacing our webserver with a couple of UltraSPARCs, > but are leaving mail on one of our existing Linux boxes, and using the > second as a backup. Here's where things get interesting. The backup > server is being used as an administration server for our Sun boxes (thru > xhost). While copying some files, we lost power and the admin/backup > server's file structure got pretty messed up. When I tried to reinstall > the original OS (a combination of Caldera-xwindows and RedHat-everything > else, with Kernel being Linux 1.2.13) and run the backup tape, it > couldn't set up a ram drive from the startup disks and the whole thing > was screwed. Dooh! > We put FreeBSD on it, just so we could set up the admin server, > and let it go at that. Unfortunately, this means that for now, we have > no backup mail server, a very bad thing. My question for you is this, > could we run the information on the 4gig backup tape under FreeBSD? Is > the file structure similar enough? Could the BSD kernel support the > Linux sendmail? What tool did you use to back up the data? If you used tar it's probably recoverable, if you used dump I'm not so sure. > I understand that this may seem naive, and the answer is > probably a simple NO, but I've got to ask. The alternative is to try > and track down someone who has a copy of the same Linux Kernel (a tough > task as the supplier of our server is now out of business). It wouldn't be related to the kernel itself, it's tied to the backup tool used. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message