From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 17:25:20 2002 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 0D44A37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:25:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail5.sea.registeredsite.com (mail5.sea.registeredsite.com [66.111.73.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7901043E77 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:25:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Received: from asarian-host.net (asarian-host.net [216.122.74.112]) by mail5.sea.registeredsite.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAF1PAE5004954 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:25:11 -0500 Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email addresses for asarians can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by asarian-host.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id gAF1PAe80472 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:25:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Posted-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:25:10 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Message-Id: <200211150125.GAF1P6I80444@asarian-host.net> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:25:02 +0100 X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net Subject: Re: restore question X-Trace: Qdo2eJEk1KzFbeT9dHy/398J+yIjFne3i7q6wchc9yOGp1u2ZJZ7cQHB0n9HFGaT X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: "Matthew Emmerton" , "R. Zoontjens" , References: <020901c28b6f$f0b241c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAPdRM9jFqW1BleBN9AQEFJgf/QuHagXy3MA83BO7EXBJpH6m1Ktgxvh7Y bjI0RPZDkkJmMyR14erWJFHzRsN8+7v7dsRjH4CFbnLo8i7NYR+z5yH/xVD4QGvb i60iwubrbcJGpGTeF2onXBvrStLVBCBPTw8qvgEUpQtD3KJJdGYiFbgxCKGZ0C3D KzXMzTk8ofiS/hYKxV5DQhW3o5x6cv/BSPAommJyhnpc6OcsvaGzCzxmajeuE9Xb BvrKpWGwDe609r7SIpJk2p5qagIaogqXypAkgA+3Rqztz86x1iJluvm0/bjINSd2 R3bwMR8t3XwBUuVO0s90/CfRIh5xStXu/AcG20xM+qg8mRIYcsivUA== =iTVp 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "R. Zoontjens" ; Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:54 AM Subject: Re: restore question > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Mark wrote: > > > > > > > Worse even, how do I safely restore the "/" filesystem? > > > > (should it ever become corrupted). The reason I originally asked, is that I am building a new FreeBSD 4.7 server, in a test environment, which I then, when it is done, want to migrate to the "real" server. I really wish there was something like GHOST I could use for FreeBSD. I mean, just a prog that will make an image of the entire disk, that can be restored as an image. And I'm surprised, actually, that I cannot find such a program. While readily available for the "home" market, you would think that a need existed for servers too to have the ability to make image backups. Apart from migratory reasons, it would make a full restore a lot easier when I would just lose the then minutes or so restoring a GHOST image in case of a calamity, instead of the painstaking process of what basically boils down to doing a complete new install, spanning at least several hours. - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message