Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:16:10 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How would you do a system recovery Message-ID: <3D73649A.8010401@potentialtech.com> References: <20020902092939.A25946@keksy.muc.infineon.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020902145652.02aaa640@mail.lusidor.com>
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Please use "reply all" so the mailing list can stay informed as well. Jimmy Lantz wrote: > would this work? > wouldnt it be any conflict while restoring the / ? > / Jim. I guess it depends on the layout of your filesystem. If you split things up nicely, there isn't really very much that needs to be restored to / Most things get restored to /usr. You can restore /etc on a running system. > At 09:00 2002-09-02 -0400, you wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > -- 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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