Re: Is doing a network restore from bsd.rd at all possible?
* Michal Soltys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-21 10:02]: > smith wrote: > > > > >If you successfully do this, can you post how you did it? > > > > The "magic" is in bsd's ftp(1) -o flag, which makes it a bit similar beast > to the wget. It can also pull the file using http or, since 4.0, https - > check "AUTO-FETCHING FILES" section in the man, it's quite fexible piece of > tool. but on the ramdisks there is a slightly limited version (for space reasons), that does not support https (but plain http). -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
Re: Is doing a network restore from bsd.rd at all possible?
smith wrote: If you successfully do this, can you post how you did it? The "magic" is in bsd's ftp(1) -o flag, which makes it a bit similar beast to the wget. It can also pull the file using http or, since 4.0, https - check "AUTO-FETCHING FILES" section in the man, it's quite fexible piece of tool. As for recovering / cloning using bsd.rd, you could simply do something like: newfs /dev/rwd1e mount -o async /dev/wd1e /mnt cd /mnt ftp -o - ftp://openbsd.example.com/partition.dump | restore rvf - cd / umount /mnt One remark though - use or prepare larger /tmp before doing so, or you may irritate restore quite a bit, if you recover some larger filesystem.
Re: Is doing a network restore from bsd.rd at all possible?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:35:28 -0400, Martin Gignac wrote > On 10/19/06, Michal Soltys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You can pipe ftp's output to restore. > > Hey man, great idea! I'll try it out. > > Thanks! > -Martin > > -- > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names > the streets after them." > >--Bill Vaughan If you successfully do this, can you post how you did it?
Re: Is doing a network restore from bsd.rd at all possible?
On 10/19/06, Martin Gignac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey man, great idea! I'll try it out. Yup, tried a restore(8) via HTTP and it worked fine! Thanks again for the tip. -Martin -- "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." --Bill Vaughan
Re: Is doing a network restore from bsd.rd at all possible?
On 10/19/06, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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. That's why I'd *like* to do, but I don't have 'mount_nfs' on my bsd.rd. I'm guessing you are using a non-i386 bsd.rd, right? The FAQ at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#InstMedia mentions that "the OpenBSD/i386 platform does not support NFS installs", so I guess a i386 cd40.iso image will not ne NFS-capable, and therefore NFS is not an option for me. Makes sense, right? At least, as Michal suggested I could use FTP. -Martin -- "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." --Bill Vaughan
Re: Is doing a network restore from bsd.rd at all possible?
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.
>
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Re: Is doing a network restore from bsd.rd at all possible?
On 10/19/06, Michal Soltys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can pipe ftp's output to restore. Hey man, great idea! I'll try it out. Thanks! -Martin -- "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." --Bill Vaughan
Re: Is doing a network restore from bsd.rd at all possible?
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.
