Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:00:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: martin.kahlert@infineon.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How would you do a system recovery Message-ID: <3D7360FB.6010807@potentialtech.com> References: <20020902092939.A25946@keksy.muc.infineon.com>
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Martin Kahlert wrote: > Hi! > > I did a dump of all of my important file systems like > /, /usr /var and /home and gzipped them. > I was lucky and all of them fit onto 700MB CDs. > > Now i have a question: When my system gets really unusable how should i > restore it? Is there a boot floppy for a really minimal FreeBSD which > contains fdisk, restore *and* gunzip? > Or would you rely on a rescue CD and where would you get one from? > I think a linux rescue CD will not work for that. While using a fixit floppy or a fixit CD is doable, personally if I had a system that was totally failing and I only had 700 Meg of backup to restore, I would simply start with a fresh install (minimal) and then do the restores. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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