From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 23:48:20 2003 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 3739537B405 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:48:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BA043E4A for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:48:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h087mEsh064269; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:48:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id h087mDv4064266; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:48:14 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:48:13 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: "Michael C. Cambria" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restoring /usr from a remote tape In-Reply-To: <200301080500.h08508Cc000518@mcambria.fid4.com> Message-ID: <20030108084221.W61455-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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