From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 07:20:23 2004 Return-Path: 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 B7E6716A4D0 for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 07:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D4143D45 for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 07:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i43EK6o00117; Mon, 3 May 2004 10:20:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200405031420.i43EK6o00117@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: forrie@forrie.com (Forrest Aldrich) Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:20:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <409304B6.4080005@forrie.com> from "Forrest Aldrich" at Apr 30, 2004 10:00:22 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Disaster Recovery Guide X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 14:20:23 -0000 > > Thanks to the people who responded to my recent post regarding the > failed boot, etc. It ended up being a bad SCSI LVD cable. > > During this time, and while researching the net for different solutions, > I'm surprised there isn't a "FreeBSD Disaster Recovery Guide" of > sorts. Not in the Handbook, not in any of the FreeBSD books I have > (very shocking). If I've missed a page out there, by all means let me > know. > > Other than that, I think it would be a good idea to put something like > this in the Handbook or somewhere conspicuous. There are tools like > OpenBSD's scan_ffs and others that could literally save a system. > Techniques, diagnosis, tests... This seems like a worthy project. So, in your spare time, I encourage you to get started on it. ////jerry > > Anyone agree here? > > Forrest >