Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:23:07 -0700 From: "Bob Lee" <bob@bobleeit.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server Crash Message-ID: <20050928182307.GA824@mach.cnsisp.com> In-Reply-To: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F8316489986467326@corpsrv.RedMoon.local> References: <4B3EE484EEA4F344BBB62F8316489986467326@corpsrv.RedMoon.local>
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OK Cody, Based upon the information you've given, specific advice is going to be a guessing game. Here's how I'd approach the problem. First off I wouldn't worry too much about restoring the 'system' files, OS, etc..., but concentrate on getting a server back up and operational and then move on to the data. My inital intro into the world of disaster recovery was headed by someone who refused to call the process 'backup' instead calling it 'restore'. You're now finding out why. So, build a new server, install apps, restore data. If you need or want to restore config files (/etc and others) you need to be careful and probably get used to running diff on newly installed vs archived files and updating files as necessary. If you feel you need to truly perform a complete recovery, you may find yourself doing alot of trial and error. Once you get over this setback spend some time and think about how you want to deal with this type of problem in the future. If you need bare metal drive recovery -- a quick search of the 'net should point you to sources of info on how to set up a system for such a process. Good luck. Bob Quoting Cody Holland <cholland@redmoonbroadband.com>: > Ok, I'm having some problems....due to the fact that I'm pretty new and > have no idea on how to do this. We had a server crash, hardware > related, and I want to take my dump backups and restore them on another > system. The dump files are located on a remote ftp server. So > basically what I'm trying to accomplish is installing FreeBSD on the new > system, getting the dump files off of the backup server, and then > restoring them on a live server. Is this possible, or should I be > trying to do this a different way. I cannot restore everything exactly > without some changes. The new server is SCSI, and the old server was on > an IDE hard drive and I had re-compiled the kernel with all SCSI devices > disabled (I don't know if that even matters). Anyway I'm kind of lost > and am looking for some guidance. I've done plenty of reading and have > attempted the restoration on my own, but keep hosing the new system. > Any help would greatly be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Cody > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ********* I prefer mail in plain text format ********** PGP/GnuPG: D3EE2269 <pgp.mit.edu>
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