Re: i have lost /etc
Just a noob here (so take with a big grain of don't blame me), but if an rm -rf /etc actually is what happened imho you'd need to REALLY want your config files to spend the time attempting recovery. /home should still persist just fine regardless of your partitioning scheme unless you did something silly on day 1 like change the default home to /etc/home. You should wait for better minds than mine to confirm, but you could probably either: - Boot from an install media (CD, etc - I don't know if hd0a:/bsd.rd would work in this case or not? List?) and (U)pgrade following recommended procedures. You'd still need to start from a fresh /etc though. - If you have the capability, you could toss the drive into another device and mount your home partition to grab yer stuff. Scott Hi list, Please someone help me I have deleted my /etc dir (rm -rf /etc), is there any way to recover it, or there is a way to recover my data stored in /home ??? Rergards !Capacidad ilimitada de almacenamiento en tu correo! No te preocupes mas por el espacio de tu cuenta con Correo Yahoo!: http://correo.yahoo.com.mx/
Re: i have lost /etc
Rafael Morales wrote: Please someone help me I have deleted my /etc dir (rm -rf /etc), is there any way to recover it, or there is a way to recover my data stored in /home ??? restore(8)
i have lost /etc
Hi list, Please someone help me I have deleted my /etc dir (rm -rf /etc), is there any way to recover it, or there is a way to recover my data stored in /home ??? Rergards !Capacidad ilimitada de almacenamiento en tu correo! No te preocupes mas por el espacio de tu cuenta con Correo Yahoo!: http://correo.yahoo.com.mx/
Re: i have lost /etc
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:56:41PM -0500, Rafael Morales wrote: Please someone help me I have deleted my /etc dir (rm -rf /etc), is there any way to recover it, or there is a way to recover my data stored in /home ??? For /etc look in /var/backups/ (for /home you're on your own).
Re: i have lost /etc
Rafael Morales wrote: Hi list, Please someone help me I have deleted my /etc dir (rm -rf /etc), is there any way to recover it, or there is a way to recover my data stored in /home ??? Rergards restore from backup? :) something tells me this is not an option. Actually, even if it is an option, you probably need to get the system up enough to do your restore... Several ways. Easiest might just be to reinstall OpenBSD from scratch, but don't touch your /home partition (when it asks where to mount it, say none), then add it to /etc/fstab after reboot. You did put /home in a separate partition, right? :) You could also boot bsd.rd, and do something like: mount /dev/wd0a /mnt cd /mnt tar xzpf /path/etc.tgz then go through and re-customize it. You will be worried about hostname.if, hosts, myname, mygate, resolv.conf, but also other files, too. (now you can restore from your backup. :) Once you get the system gimping along, take a look in /var/backups. Now, vow to kiss the feet of the person who did that person should you ever meet them. Or buy them a beer, which they will probably prefer anyway. This doesn't apply if you reloaded the whole system and blew away your /var partition. You did have /var in a separate partition, right? Nick.
Re: i have lost /etc
forgot something: Nick Holland wrote: ... You could also boot bsd.rd, and do something like: mount /dev/wd0a /mnt cd /mnt tar xzpf /path/etc.tgz er.. one potential problem with that: it will overwrite parts of your /var partition, which may or may not be a problem for you (i.e., if you have a really complex httpd configuration, it is will get overwritten with the default). Again, /var/backups is your friend. Nick.
