Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:34:55 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Disaster recovery. Message-ID: <038b01c6e94c$37144760$6401a8c0@grant>
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Hi all, I currently keep file dumps of all filesystems on our servers on a secure raid 5 box, lees of course, the proc and swap dir. These dumps look like this and are done and transfered to a NFS filesystem in the /mnt/ dir. server1-usr-full-dump server1-home-full-dump server1-var-full-dump server1-root-full-dump So I have (all, I hope!) everything I need to rebuild a server should the hard disk completely crap out, or some script overwrites or rm's everything. I have never been in the position that this, ( a complete hard drive ), had to be done. so the question is ... if I have the dumps on one machine, and I just installed a new hard drive on another, in a nutshell, what are the steps to restore the failed server. Can I use the FreeBSD 'live' filesystem? Is ther a step by step (that I have not found) in the handbook somewhere? TIA, -Grant
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