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Date:      Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:00:43 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        martin.kahlert@infineon.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How would you do a system recovery
Message-ID:  <3D7360FB.6010807@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20020902092939.A25946@keksy.muc.infineon.com>

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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


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