On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Grant Peel wrote:
Is it possible to boot the machine using a 'live' freebsd silesystem via cd?
Then setup the /mnt , setup the new filesystems, then use restore to briung
the real data to the disk?
I guess my question really should have been, if you install a new disk, or re
newfs a disk, how do you start the machine, a freebsd boot disk?
(without installing freebsd to the machine that the restore are going to
overwrite anyway!).
I am afraid you really have to describe your situation more
precisely.
From what I gather you seem to have a broken server and want to
rescue some files from it to a freshly setup one.
If this is the case, I would take a screw driver, fetch the hard
disk from the old box, plug it into the new one and mount it
somewhere on your new filesystem.
Or I got it all wrong, in this case please do excuse my
interference.
Regards,
Uli.
-Grant
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "freeBSD" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery.
On 2006/10/06 5:34, Grant Peel seems to have typed:
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?
Honestly, the man pages are your friend in these situations, especially
the restore man page:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html
See the "-r" flag especially, which includes a brief example. If you
are restoring from another machine, things get a bit more interesting
though, which is why I always like to keep around a Freesbie disk.
http://www.freesbie.org/
Its nice to have a full OS on a CD available for use.
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
