Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:48:13 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: "Michael C. Cambria" <cambria@fid4.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restoring /usr from a remote tape Message-ID: <20030108084221.W61455-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <200301080500.h08508Cc000518@mcambria.fid4.com>
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Michael C. Cambria wrote: > Is it possible to restore a local filesystem such as / or /usr > from a remote tape? > > I'm assuming that one would need to be in single user mode or > boot from fixit floppy/CD. So I'm trying to test accessing > the remote tape from both single user mode or fixit with no > luck. I can get the LAN up, and the two machines can ping > each other. > > Things look like they fail when restore trys to run rsh. > > Before I guess at modifying the fixit floppy or the script in > the handbook to try to allow for a remote tape restore, I'd > like to know what others have done. It is possible by using a fixit CD which is the second one of the four FreeBSD CDs because all necessary binaries and libraries are available there. I've done it some time ago; maybe you need to create links from /usr/bin to /mnt2/usr/bin and /usr/lib to /mnt2/usr/lib to get things working. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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