Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:42:24 -0500 From: "Michael C. Cambria" <cambria@fid4.com> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restoring /usr from a remote tape Message-ID: <3E1F7680.4671FF87@fid4.com> References: <20030108084221.W61455-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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Konrad Heuer wrote: > > 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. I needed to link /mnt2/usr/bin to /usr/bin and everything worked fine. Specifically: cd /usr mkdir bin ln -s /mnt2/usr/bin /usr/bin I can now dump and restore in single user mode just fine from the FixIt CD. Thanks, MikeC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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