Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Craig Butler wrote: Bacula is your friend, tried and tested The guy is making nice reliable dump(8)s of his file systems. He doesn't need to waste time and energy with yet another thing. Dump and restore work just fine, are part of the system and handle situations like these most reliably.. jerry Sorry I just skip read it, wasn't sure he was using dump, but agreed dump/restore easy peasy, included and quick. http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html#SECTION004315 /Craig On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 12:07 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it vanishes in a puff of smoke one day. One can get FreeBSD installed on a new drive in maybe half an hour or so but we also need to get back to the right patch level and then we can say we are back where we started. If you do not have hot-swappable drives which we mostly do not, What is the best way to restore the full system? Can I use the FreeBSD installation disk in rescue mode? The idea would be to boot the CDROM, go in to rescue mode, mount the new drive which may be blank right now, and then use restore based on the last dump of the system we are trying to revive. Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to use//liaise with. I have even started them from command line but again, nothing, it just sits there, no error msg, but process list again, sais there running. I have tried recompiling both ports with no success and im runnin gout of theorys as to whats happening. Any ideas/thoughts welcomed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi Warren I also had this problem, I resolved it by; portupgrade -Rf firefox My understanding is that this goes and forcibly builds all of the ports that firefox depends on, then firefox itself. If you run the commands with truss it will give you some debug information on what it is getting stuck on. Kind Regards Craig Butler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fileserver questions
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it seems like a good choice. looking for pros and cons of each. thanks, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Michael I personally would consider zfs on freeBSD as unstable/experimental on everything apart from AMD64's with loads of RAM to spare. I have tried tuning as per wiki on sparc64 and i386 compatible servers but still hit problems and erratic kernel hangs. My advise -- stick to UFS wrapped in goem goodness. /Craig This email has been handled by lerwick.hopto.org mail server and has been scanned by 3 virus killers and spamassassin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
