From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 6 16:48:16 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 BB46516A40F for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:48:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408E843D49 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:48:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by pukruppa.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k96GovYG073901; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 18:50:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 18:50:53 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" To: Grant Peel In-Reply-To: <009a01c6e964$82c49300$6401a8c0@grant> Message-ID: <20061006184033.O1394@pukruppa.net> References: <038b01c6e94c$37144760$6401a8c0@grant> <45267AAD.5040905@mac.com> <009a01c6e964$82c49300$6401a8c0@grant> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "Peter A. Giessel" , freeBSD Subject: Re: Disaster recovery. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:48:16 -0000 On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Grant Peel wrote: > 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!). I am afraid you really have to describe your situation more precisely. >From what I gather you seem to have a broken server and want to rescue some files from it to a freshly setup one. If this is the case, I would take a screw driver, fetch the hard disk from the old box, plug it into the new one and mount it somewhere on your new filesystem. Or I got it all wrong, in this case please do excuse my interference. Regards, Uli. > > -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. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany