When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

[craig001 at lerwick.hopto.org]

> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Craig Butler wrote:
>
>> Bacula is your friend, tried and tested
>>
>
> The guy is making nice reliable dump(8)s of his file systems.
> He doesn't need to waste time and energy with yet another thing.
>
> Dump and restore work just fine, are part of the system and
> handle situations like these most reliably..
>
> ////jerry
Sorry I just skip read it, wasn't sure he was using dump, but agreed
dump/restore easy peasy, included and quick.

>
>
>> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html#SECTION0043150000000000000000
>>
>> /Craig
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 12:07 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
>> > Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it
>> > vanishes in a puff of smoke one day. One can get FreeBSD
>> > installed on a new drive in maybe half an hour or so but we also
>> > need to get back to the right patch level and then we can say we
>> > are back where we started. If you do not have hot-swappable
>> > drives which we mostly do not, What is the best way to restore
>> > the full system?
>> >
>> > 	Can I use the FreeBSD installation disk in rescue mode?
>> > The idea would be to boot the CDROM, go in to rescue mode, mount
>> > the new drive which may be blank right now, and then use restore
>> > based on the last dump of the system we are trying to revive.
>> >
>> > 	Thanks.
>> >
>> > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
>> > Systems Engineer
>> > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
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