From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 5 20:45:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2CF37B418 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:45:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0268.cvx15-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.45.13] helo=there) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 160y7B-0004PV-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 05 Nov 2001 20:45:37 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Organization: The Pagan Library To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assistance creating a bootable restore tape Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:28:33 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20011101234056.D67917@boole.cornpropst.net> <200111020624.fA26O5N07536@fedde.littleton.co.us> <20011102130407.E67917@boole.cornpropst.net> In-Reply-To: <20011102130407.E67917@boole.cornpropst.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: 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 IIRC, the last OS that would boot from tape was AIX, and that was on IBM'= s=20 hardware. Gunnar Reichert Seagate RSS Tape Drive Sales Support On Friday 02 November 2001 10:04, Trevor S. Cornpropst wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:24:05PM -0700, Chris Fedde wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:40:56 -0500 "Trevor S. Cornpropst" wrote: > > +------------------ > > > > | We have considered an automated install from a custom CDROM > > | distribution but this is problematic due to different server > > | configurations and the effort required to maintain multiple > > | restore CDs. > > > > +------------------ > > > > I'm not sure that I understand how tape would be different than the > > CDROM. Do you want to be able to create a bootable recovery system in= the > > field? > > Yes, the idea is to be able to create a bootable recovery system in the > field customized to the particular server. We would be able to boot fro= m > tape by specifying the device in the SCSI BIOS, assuming we can get a b= oot > block on the tape, etc. > > > +------------------ > > > > | I used to work on HP-UX systems that had a utility to create boota= ble > > | restore tapes but, I no longer have an available system to study. > > > > +------------------ > > > > I did tape recovery systems on motorola based HPUX 300 series > > workstations circa 1988 or so. IIRC it was quite painful. I'm > > not sure that modern PC bioses can even boot from tape. > > > > If I was planning a remote appliance configuration today, I'd shy > > away from tape for anything "operational". I'd consider always > > booting from CDROM for / and /usr. Then use a scheme of normal > > and union mounts to allow customizations to be written "over" the > > underlying image. I'd plan to use tape for archival storage only. > > Thanks for your input. > > Trevor > > > -- > > Chris Fedde > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Don't give me that "kinkier than thou" attitude. Above address is an autoresponder! Correct email address: patron1 at paganlibrary dot com Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold http://www.paganlibrary.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message