Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-03 Thread Polytropon
On 2 Mar 2011 22:07:39 -, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: It's not as automated as the Windows approach, but if you know what you're doing it's mostly limited by the speed of the disks. Use dump rather than an image copy so you only restore what's actually in use. Unlike Windows, UNIX

Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-03 Thread John Levine
It's not as automated as the Windows approach, but if you know what you're doing it's mostly limited by the speed of the disks. ... Unlike Windows, UNIX gives you the ability to create a fully programmable automated approach according to your needs, e. g. for multiple installations, defective

Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-03 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, John Levine wrote: It's not as automated as the Windows approach, but if you know what you're doing it's mostly limited by the speed of the disks. ... Unlike Windows, UNIX gives you the ability to create a fully programmable automated approach according to your needs, e.

Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-02 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I confess I'm more familiar with Windows and for years I have Ghosted PCs as a very fast way to get an entire PC back online in the event of a drive failure. I can easily get a PC back online within the hour using ghost (or some drive imaging software). Is there something similar in the

Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-02 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:50:19 -0800, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Is there something similar in the FBSD arena?...some form of backing up a server so that if a drive fails, upon replacement of the drive(s), the OS can be very quickly recovered from a backup (of some sort), or from an

Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-02 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I confess I'm more familiar with Windows and for years I have Ghosted PCs as a very fast way to get an entire PC back online in the event of a drive failure. I can easily get a PC back online within the hour using ghost (or some drive imaging

Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com writes: I confess I'm more familiar with Windows and for years I have Ghosted PCs as a very fast way to get an entire PC back online in the event of a drive failure. I can easily get a PC back online within the hour using ghost (or some drive imaging software).

Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-02 Thread Nerius Landys
This topic was recently discussed on the FreeBSD Forums, so I'll link it here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21993 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-02 Thread John Levine
Is there something similar in the FBSD arena?...some form of backing up a server so that if a drive fails, upon replacement of the drive(s), the OS can be very quickly recovered from a backup (of some sort), or from an image, etc.? I've found that if you make normal backups using dump to a USB

Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?

2011-03-02 Thread Peter Giessel
On Mar 02, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I confess I'm more familiar with Windows and for years I have Ghosted PCs as a very fast way to get an entire PC back online in the event of a drive failure. I can easily get a PC back online within the hour using ghost