Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 21:50:18 +0100 (BST) From: craig001@lerwick.hopto.org To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org>, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again. Message-ID: <4830.192.168.0.146.1241211018.squirrel@lerwick.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <20090501193214.GA44369@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <200905011707.n41H7M6b021540@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <1241198466.19500.8.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> <20090501193214.GA44369@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Craig Butler wrote: > >> Bacula is your friend, tried and tested >> > > The guy is making nice reliable dump(8)s of his file systems. > He doesn't need to waste time and energy with yet another thing. > > Dump and restore work just fine, are part of the system and > handle situations like these most reliably.. > > ////jerry Sorry I just skip read it, wasn't sure he was using dump, but agreed dump/restore easy peasy, included and quick. > > >> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html#SECTION0043150000000000000000 >> >> /Craig >> >> >> >> On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 12:07 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: >> > Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it >> > vanishes in a puff of smoke one day. One can get FreeBSD >> > installed on a new drive in maybe half an hour or so but we also >> > need to get back to the right patch level and then we can say we >> > are back where we started. If you do not have hot-swappable >> > drives which we mostly do not, What is the best way to restore >> > the full system? >> > >> > Can I use the FreeBSD installation disk in rescue mode? >> > The idea would be to boot the CDROM, go in to rescue mode, mount >> > the new drive which may be blank right now, and then use restore >> > based on the last dump of the system we are trying to revive. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >> > Systems Engineer >> > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group >> > _______________________________________________ >> > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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