Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-06 Thread n j
... What is the best way to restore the full system? Can I use the FreeBSD installation disk in rescue mode? I experienced such a situation just 2 weeks ago. My primary problem was that I had to do restore over the network (no attached tape drives, no external HDDs). I wanted to use ssh to grab

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 01 May 2009 22:43:51 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:07:22PM -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

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually restore your dumps onto ``bare metal'' without doing a partial install first, and with the same newfs

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 01 May 2009 22:43:51 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:07:22PM -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.

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually restore your dumps onto ``bare

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread Craig Butler
Bacula is your friend, tried and tested 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

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 01 May 2009 12:07:22 -0500, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: Can I use the FreeBSD installation disk in rescue mode? Yes, you can. The only thing you have to ensure is that you have a means to access the dump files, for example via network or from optical media

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 May 2009, 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

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
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

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:07:22PM -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

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread craig001
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