On Sunday 17 February 2008 23:55, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I'd still rather there wasn't an ``error'' message at all unless there's
a genuine error: I'm planning for the case of an operator with limited
skills doing a ``monkey see, monkey do'' restore (not trying to be rude,
but
monkey
As part of our disaster recovery planning, I'm working up a bare-metal
recovery sequence that can be followed by someone who's used Linux (easier to
find here than a FreeBSD admin).
My initial outline sequence was along the lines of:
Boot install CD and choose Fixit
fdisk -BI
extract saved
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Boot install CD and choose Fixit
get live CD, it's better for this.
fdisk -BI
extract saved disklabel from tape and install with bsdlabel
Initialise filesystems using stored output of dumpfs -m (from tape)
Restore filesystems from tape
good you have such i plan.
Boot install CD and choose Fixit
get live CD, it's better for this.
fdisk -BI
extract saved disklabel from tape and install with bsdlabel
Initialise filesystems using stored output of dumpfs -m (from tape)
Restore filesystems from tape
good you have such i plan. this is rare case today;)
On Sunday 17 February 2008 21:51, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Boot install CD and choose Fixit
get live CD, it's better for this.
To be honest, if I'm not using an install CD (which will do the job) I may as
well look at making a custom recovery disk which just needs to be booted -
but see
is slice actually created?
Yes.
so it's all right. just ignore it.
as far as i remember i've got this message with bsdlabel -B, but i ignored
it as everything worked fine.
I'd still rather there wasn't an ``error'' message at all unless there's a
genuine error: I'm planning for the case
