From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 5:53:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89D437B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 05:53:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0983C43E4A for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 05:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g82CrPD18583; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:53:26 -0400 Message-ID: <3D7360FB.6010807@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:00:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: martin.kahlert@infineon.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How would you do a system recovery References: <20020902092939.A25946@keksy.muc.infineon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin Kahlert wrote: > Hi! > > I did a dump of all of my important file systems like > /, /usr /var and /home and gzipped them. > I was lucky and all of them fit onto 700MB CDs. > > Now i have a question: When my system gets really unusable how should i > restore it? Is there a boot floppy for a really minimal FreeBSD which > contains fdisk, restore *and* gunzip? > Or would you rely on a rescue CD and where would you get one from? > I think a linux rescue CD will not work for that. While using a fixit floppy or a fixit CD is doable, personally if I had a system that was totally failing and I only had 700 Meg of backup to restore, I would simply start with a fresh install (minimal) and then do the restores. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message