From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 6 16:28:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE7816A500 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:28:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from constellation.thenetnow.com (thenetnow.com [69.90.69.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA1443D49 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:28:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from hpeel.ody.ca ([216.240.12.2] helo=grant) by constellation.thenetnow.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1GVsZ7-000GBR-00; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:28:49 -0400 Message-ID: <009a01c6e964$82c49300$6401a8c0@grant> From: "Grant Peel" To: "Peter A. Giessel" References: <038b01c6e94c$37144760$6401a8c0@grant> <45267AAD.5040905@mac.com> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:28:52 -0400 Organization: The Net Now MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Disaster recovery. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:28:55 -0000 Is it possible to boot the machine using a 'live' freebsd silesystem via cd? Then setup the /mnt , setup the new filesystems, then use restore to briung the real data to the disk? I guess my question really should have been, if you install a new disk, or re newfs a disk, how do you start the machine, a freebsd boot disk? (without installing freebsd to the machine that the restore are going to overwrite anyway!). -Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter A. Giessel" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: "freeBSD" Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Disaster recovery. > On 2006/10/06 5:34, Grant Peel seems to have typed: >> so the question is ... if I have the dumps on one machine, and I just >> installed a new hard drive on another, in a nutshell, what are the steps >> to >> restore the failed server. Can I use the FreeBSD 'live' filesystem? Is >> ther >> a step by step (that I have not found) in the handbook somewhere? > > Honestly, the man pages are your friend in these situations, especially > the restore man page: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html > > See the "-r" flag especially, which includes a brief example. If you > are restoring from another machine, things get a bit more interesting > though, which is why I always like to keep around a Freesbie disk. > http://www.freesbie.org/ > Its nice to have a full OS on a CD available for use. > >