If I understand your email correctly, you were able to get all the
files tar'd up from the original system. And you put those tar's on a
second hard drive that you mounted in the dying system, then a day
later, the primary boot drive died. So right now you have a
non-bootable drive formated with ufs containing tars of original
system.
If you want to salvage the old system, you could replace the boot
drive, then re-install version 4.4. Then grab the tar files off the
second drive.
If you cant get 4.4 ISO off the FBSD ftp servers, I can send you the
ISO's (I have all the CD's going back to 3.0).
However, as others have mentioned, you dont need to go that route,
especially if all this box did was run apache. As long as you can get
the apache data (just htdocs or the whole apache install), you can just
do a fresh install of 4.11, then dump your 4.4 apache files. (if your
lucky, the entire apache install might be under /usr/local/apache - so
you just have to copy one directory) Start apache binaries and your
done. Or install 5.4, install and build a new apache from source or
ports, then just copy over the htdocs and conf directories.
As you mention in your email I would NOT recommend untarring your
4.4 files into a active 4.5 system. It only takes a few things to
create a mess. Much easier just starting from scratch and restore
apache, or install 4.4.
-john von essen
On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:50 PM, Sydney Hole & Owen Huffaker wrote:
Hello,
Wonder if you can give me a little advise.
I don't have a background in freebsd. I maintained a Unix V5 system
years
ago and I have been called in to look at an installation that is
ailing.
This system is a 4.4 version that is acting as a web server. It has
some
web functionality on it which was refreshing unusually slow. They
called me
and I came in to look at it. I noticed that the logon was slow either
directly on the console or through telnet. I suspected a hard drive
issue.
Since the system had been running for some time, I shut it down and I
ran a
hard drive test (Fujitsu drive and ran the proprietary fujitsu
program) and
it failed. No backup and no tape drive. They happen to have a few BSD
books around so I figured out how to add a disk in place of the cdrom
and I
partition it with sysinstall. Then I used TAR and I copied all of the
file
systems to this new hard drive with exception of swap. Also I used the
sysinstall and looked at the labels of the main (failing) drive and
copied
down all the sizes of the slices. I used a bsd 4.5 version on a
separate
machine I had lying around and was able to partition and slice/label a
brand
new drive with the same sizes as the old drive. My intentions were to
copy
the files to the new drive and then plug it in somehow. I thought I
had
some time. This all happened on Monday.
Today the drive crashed. I am wondering what the best way to proceed.
If I
am thinking (but really sort of guessing) about this correct, the new
machine has a 4.5 install on it and a drive that is sliced and labeled
as
per the original. I know this because during the install it let me do
the
partition and label and I took advantage of the opportunity. Does it
make
sense that I could put the backup drive in the new machine, and then
mount
it, copy all the files to the drive I partition and then maybe put the
drive
that I copied all the stuff to back in the original machine? But I
don't
know if I am going to run into trouble with existing files from the 4.5
install if they get overlayed or its going to be a big mess.
I also noticed in one of the books about a fixit program on the cd.
Would
it be best to use that, mount both drives (newly partitioned and the
backup)
and copy stuff that way. The books don't go into the fixit much, just
summary info.
I am going to try this tomorrow morning and wondered if you might have
some
good advise.
I do have a copy of BSD 4.5 and 5.o from a FreeBSD Unleashed book by
Michael
Urban and Brian Tieman. I also have the absolute BSD by Michael Lucas.
Regards,
Owen
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