From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 9:37:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.coastsight.com (ns1.coastsight.com [208.46.230.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D1237B422 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:37:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maillist@coastsight.com) Received: from ns1.coastsight.com ([208.46.230.17]) by ns1.coastsight.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 14puxf-000Fn4-00; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:37:47 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:37:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup and Verify In-Reply-To: <15069.49404.687348.64785@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, on the Bootable cd is another place I am having trouble. Actually, in a couple of places. The first place I am having trouble with is to actually get the CD to boot, and run my own install program rather than the regular FreeBSD install. mkisofs will create the image, but I don't know how to write boot blocks to it. Another problem is, how do I create a custom install program? Maybe a shell script would be easier than that ANSI install program. But, even at that, how can i write a script that will automatically detect the new hard drive (replacement drive), partition, label, and format it to my specs without them having to specify the values themselves? On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Rick Duvall types: > > This box is actually a web server, and the only files that change is when > > our web developer uploads files to the box, and email coming in. Don't > > care so much about the email as much as I do the configuration > > files. Same goes for the web server. Don't care much about the content > > as much as I do about the config files because my web developer has a copy > > of the entire site on her PC at work, and at home. > > That's a *radically* different problem. I've solved it a number of > times. > > > As far as the verify, maybe I am thinking compare.... It would be nice if > > I could have a Bootable CD, though that one could put in the CD drive, the > > CD boot and it will ask to put the last backup in the tape drive, and it > > will restore the last backup. It needs to be as user friendly as possible > > because I am the only person in this company capable of operating this > > box, and if for some reason I leave (quit more likely than getting hit by > > a Mac truck) the average ordinary layman will need to be able to restore > > everything by following a checklist of procedures. I don't think that > > they will be able to do a fresh install of FreeBSD, however, and restore > > over the top. These are bank tellers we are talking about. > > In that case, you need a custom CD that boots and installs FreeBSD for > them. You really only need to recreate it whenever you change the > configuration files. > > For that matter, why not put the web docs on /var, and put / on a > CDROM? When you go, copy an ISO image of the thing over to a Windows > box and provide instructions for burning a new one. Provide a script > that formats that builds /var on the C drive on it, and you're done. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message