From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 31 17:34:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E4537B78F for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA12123; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:34:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:46:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Meagan Jia Pi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: putting commands for tapes on floppy In-Reply-To: <08ed01bffb44$81a93080$e293c83f@meagan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Meagan Jia Pi wrote: > I'd like to put commands for restoring files/file systems from a tape > (i.e. "restore", "mt", any others you can think of ) on a floppy so I don't > have to mount the CD containing live filesystems. The reason being is > that some systems might not have a CD-ROM, also, sometimes I don't > have that CD around. > > How do I do that if there is a way? The book "Unix Backup & Recovery" has much wisdom regarding what to put on a floppy. To put the commands you want on a floppy you way want to make boot disc set with a kernel floppy and a utilities floppy similar to the MFSROOT floppy image. Make sure your kernel has all the drivers you need to run the recovery hardware. How? newfs your floppies and put the stuff on it. There is a section on disaster recovery in the handbook that talkv about what to do before a problem hits. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message