Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 23:30:49 GMT+3 From: "Andrew Ivanov" <IVANOV@mics.msu.su> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to restore from scratch? Message-ID: <1E7E68504D0@mics.msu.su>
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Hi, all
Please explain me how to restore filesystem from backup?
I did read the chapter 10.5.9 (Tapes and backups)
of the FreeBSD Handbook.
The question is how to make restore work? It complains about
root file system full, and afterwards failed.
Backup created with amanda, tape device resides on remote workstation.
There is not enough space on floppy to hold all useful utilities, so
I mount nfs filesystem (I'm sure problem is not here).
filesystem on /dev/wd0a is clean and empty.
What exactly I did:
- Boot from floppy created as instructed (with some changes) OK
- ifconfig ed0 <my ip_address> netmask <my netmask> OK
- mount_nfs <nfs server>:/<public directory> /mnt2 OK
- mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
- cd /mnt
- mount -wu /
- rsh <server> "amrestore -p <tape device>" </dev/null \
| restore ivbf 2 - FAILED
I have tried other restore modes (such as 'restore r', 'restore x')
with the same result.
May be I need MFS?
FreeBSD version 2.2.2-RELEASE
Sorry for broken english.
Thanks,
Andrew.
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