Re: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Nuno Gonçalves wrote: I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system to a different Hardware. I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am trying to install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware which I already have up and running. What kind of backup? Is it a dump(8) file? I created a Swap Partition, a “/” partition where the minimum system is running, and a third partition “/backup” in which I will restore the backup through the network. Next step will be to change the boot manager and make it boot through “/backup”. Do you guys think this is doable? I Think I probably must recompile the kernel after the bare metal recovery because the hardware is different, still do you think it might work? Did the kernel have a lot of customization? A GENERIC kernel should boot on almost anything --- which is why "bare metal recovery" seems a misnomer to me. If the hard disk survives, I simply stick it in another box and rarely have any difficulties. If it doesn't, I do a minimal install with the desired final slice/partition scheme on the new HDD, and simply restore(8) over the top. What is your opinion on this? What should be the best approach ? Well, I don't know your exact situation, but OOTOMH, the partitioning scheme you mention seems like wasting a disk unless you want the final system to have only /, swap, and /backup. Which could be OK, I guess, but isn't the traditional BSD Right Way(tm). Also, I'd consider installing a newer release than 6.0, and only restoring the important stuff. Again, it depends on your situation. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey I agree with Kevin. If the HD is ok just stick it in a new box and it will work with most current motherboards. I have done this many times. All you may have to re configure is your network if the nic on the new box is different. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To
Nuno Gonçalves wrote: I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system to a different Hardware. I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am trying to install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware which I already have up and running. What kind of backup? Is it a dump(8) file? I created a Swap Partition, a “/” partition where the minimum system is running, and a third partition “/backup” in which I will restore the backup through the network. Next step will be to change the boot manager and make it boot through “/backup”. Do you guys think this is doable? I Think I probably must recompile the kernel after the bare metal recovery because the hardware is different, still do you think it might work? Did the kernel have a lot of customization? A GENERIC kernel should boot on almost anything --- which is why "bare metal recovery" seems a misnomer to me. If the hard disk survives, I simply stick it in another box and rarely have any difficulties. If it doesn't, I do a minimal install with the desired final slice/partition scheme on the new HDD, and simply restore(8) over the top. What is your opinion on this? What should be the best approach ? Well, I don't know your exact situation, but OOTOMH, the partitioning scheme you mention seems like wasting a disk unless you want the final system to have only /, swap, and /backup. Which could be OK, I guess, but isn't the traditional BSD Right Way(tm). Also, I'd consider installing a newer release than 6.0, and only restoring the important stuff. Again, it depends on your situation. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey -- You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive. -- Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To
Thank you all on responding this mater. Well the situation is the hardware is wrecked! So the only thing that I have is the content of all partitions available. The backup is a tar uncompressed data. So I have the contents in a server. So the objective is to use a completely different hardware but with the same kernel, same configurations, same partitions, etc. In that way, what I thought (but I don't know if it is the proper way) was to install a minimum freeBSD (same version which is 6.0) with the following partitions and booting with F1 option: /dev/ad1s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad1s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad1s1d /new_rootufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad1s1e /archive ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Then migrate the partions that I have in my backup / -> to partition /new_root (/dev/ad1s1d) at the end this should be changed to /dev/ad1s1a /archive -> to partition /archive (/dev/ad1s1e) The idea is to make use of the same swap partition, and of course if all goes OK the partition / of the minimum system is lost when bootManager is changed to boot on /new_root. That is what I have in mind but I am not sure if it will work. I am new to FreeBSD and I am more used to red hat, still I am putting some effort to change that :) Best regards and thanks once again Nuno -Original Message- From: Kevin Kinsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quarta-feira, 19 de Dezembro de 2007 16:58 To: Nuno Gonçalves Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To Nuno Gonçalves wrote: > I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system to a > different Hardware. > > I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am trying to > install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware which I already have > up and running. What kind of backup? Is it a dump(8) file? > I created a Swap Partition, a / partition where the minimum system is > running, and a third partition /backup in which I will restore the backup > through the network. > > Next step will be to change the boot manager and make it boot through > /backup. > > Do you guys think this is doable? > > I Think I probably must recompile the kernel after the bare metal recovery > because the hardware is different, still do you think it might work? Did the kernel have a lot of customization? A GENERIC kernel should boot on almost anything --- which is why "bare metal recovery" seems a misnomer to me. If the hard disk survives, I simply stick it in another box and rarely have any difficulties. If it doesn't, I do a minimal install with the desired final slice/partition scheme on the new HDD, and simply restore(8) over the top. > What is your opinion on this? What should be the best approach ? Well, I don't know your exact situation, but OOTOMH, the partitioning scheme you mention seems like wasting a disk unless you want the final system to have only /, swap, and /backup. Which could be OK, I guess, but isn't the traditional BSD Right Way(tm). Also, I'd consider installing a newer release than 6.0, and only restoring the important stuff. Again, it depends on your situation. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey -- You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive. -- Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nuno Gonçalves wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system > to a different Hardware. > > I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am > trying to install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware > which I already have up and running. > > I created a Swap Partition, a “/” partition where the minimum > system is running, and a third partition “/backup” in which I will > restore the backup through the network. > > Next step will be to change the boot manager and make it boot > through “/backup”. > > > > Do you guys think this is doable? > > I Think I probably must recompile the kernel after the bare metal > recovery because the hardware is different, still do you think it > might work? If you need to recompile the kernel then you will also have do a build world and rebuild most of the ports. Your better just backing up the data from the old machine and building the new enviroment from scratch then copy it across. An other way is all the data to a spare disk and then just put it in the new machine once it is all setup. BTW unless there is some extremely good reason why your sticking with 6.0 you should consider at 6.3 > > What is your opinion on this? What should be the best approach ? > > Thanks for reading and > > Best regards > > > > Nuno > > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To > unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHaTjLzIOMjAek4JIRApEjAKClfIOmPJ73EBgNAtszCrGaWI93dwCfdeMl bkJffUSYC5jMhA7RB6Y3tXQ= =BMfE -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To
At 09:05 AM 12/19/2007, Nuno Gonçalves wrote: Hi all, I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system to a different Hardware. I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am trying to install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware which I already have up and running. I created a Swap Partition, a / partition where the minimum system is running, and a third partition /backup in which I will restore the backup through the network. Next step will be to change the boot manager and make it boot through /backup. Do you guys think this is doable? I Think I probably must recompile the kernel after the bare metal recovery because the hardware is different, still do you think it might work? What is your opinion on this? What should be the best approach ? Thanks for reading and Best regards Nuno It depends on your server's partitioning. The simplest would be to create the same file systems like you had on the old server and restore each filesystem. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To
Hi all, I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system to a different Hardware. I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am trying to install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware which I already have up and running. I created a Swap Partition, a / partition where the minimum system is running, and a third partition /backup in which I will restore the backup through the network. Next step will be to change the boot manager and make it boot through /backup. Do you guys think this is doable? I Think I probably must recompile the kernel after the bare metal recovery because the hardware is different, still do you think it might work? What is your opinion on this? What should be the best approach ? Thanks for reading and Best regards Nuno ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
