From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 18:27:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29E1037BCC1 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:27:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.36] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ya790736 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:26:30 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA03010; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:27:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: What to do when your Hard Drive achieves escape velocity? Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:20:40 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00022520010701.02808@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> <20000225175140.N21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000225175140.N21720@fw.wintelcom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00022521273800.02997@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Walter Brameld [000225 17:49] wrote: > > I'm sure I am missing the boat here somewhere, but I can't seem to > > find any documentation as to how to restore my system in the event of > > a catastrophic failure. Both the Handbook and The Complete FreeBSD > > give some information as to how to back up data, but not how to do > > the above. To me this seems like a valuable piece of information to > > have on hand. > > > > If anyone could point me to a source, I would appreciate it > > I think the next step would be to restore the data? > > I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here, if you have backups > then all you need to do is repartition and restore from the > backups. > > Can you be more specific? > > check out "man restore". > > -Alfred I did check out "man restore". I also checked "man disklabel", man newfs" and "man do I have a headache". I guess my point was, it would be nice to have a step-by-step procedure documented somewhere. Granted, all the information is available but it's not always easy for someone who is brand new to Unix/FreeBSD to put it all together on their own. That was the whole point in my purchasing something like The Complete FreeBSD. I understand the concept behind "RTFM" (Thanks for not saying it). The thing is, I thought I had bought TFM just for the purpose of R it. -- Walter Brameld in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message