From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 6: 9: 1 2002 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 DE38237B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 06:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C9C43E4A for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 06:08:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g82D8rD18759; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:08:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3D73649A.8010401@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:16:10 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jimmy Lantz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How would you do a system recovery References: <20020902092939.A25946@keksy.muc.infineon.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020902145652.02aaa640@mail.lusidor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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