Re: system recovery

2006-06-01 Thread Jonathan Horne
ttempts to finally cp -vpnRP correctly, without spewing files all over the wrong places, but i have to say, im pretty happy with my result! (/me scratches "practice total system recovery" off list of things to do) cheers, jonathan ___ freebsd-qu

Re: system recovery

2006-05-31 Thread Olivier Nicole
> or, can someone recommend how i might use that tarball of my entire > system to quickly get a new system up and running (all this with the > assumtion that i have not changed any hardware configurations). if > someone has time to answer quickly, i would sure appreciate it. I think that the rec

system recovery

2006-05-31 Thread Jonathan Horne
ok, i trashed my system (being dumb!), and now im preparing to try to get it back, and my goal is to try to skip the 38 hour kde compile from ports (yes, i like ports, not packages). before i burned it all down, i did make a tarball of /. i did try to untar it with -C /, but it got about 5 sec

UFS2 File System Recovery

2005-02-13 Thread Thomas Foster
I have done quite a bit of searching on the subject and seem to be coming back to the same conclusion. I recently accidentally removed a symlink recursively in a sleep deprived stupor and lost an entire directory of personal music projects. Being that I had not performed backups for that day,