My typical way to do his is find my latest dump(s) on tape or elsewhere - chuck them on an nfs server accesible to the machine to be restored, boot from bsd.rd, mount the nfs location with the dump files and proceed.
-Bob * Michal Soltys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-19 09:19]: > >So my question is this: is doing a remote network restore using > >'bsd.rd' at all possible (or even suggested/recommended) or are > >directly attached devices (IDE/SCSI/USB drives & tapes drives) the > >only supported restore(8) sources with 'bsd.rd'? > > You can pipe ftp's output to restore. > -- #!/usr/bin/perl if ((not 0 && not 1) != (! 0 && ! 1)) { print "Larry and Tom must smoke some really primo stuff...\n"; }