FreeBSD Disaster Recovery Guide

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Mon May 3 07:20:23 PDT 2004


> 
> Thanks to the people who responded to my recent post regarding the 
> failed boot, etc.   It ended up being a bad SCSI LVD cable. 
> 
> During this time, and while researching the net for different solutions, 
> I'm surprised there isn't a "FreeBSD Disaster Recovery Guide" of 
> sorts.   Not in the Handbook, not in any of the FreeBSD books I have 
> (very shocking).   If I've missed a page out there, by all means let me 
> know.
> 
> Other than that, I think it would be a good idea to put something like 
> this in the Handbook or somewhere conspicuous.   There are tools like 
> OpenBSD's scan_ffs and others that could literally save a system.   
> Techniques, diagnosis, tests...

This seems like a worthy project.   
So, in your spare time, I encourage you to get started on it.

////jerry

> 
> Anyone agree here?
> 
> Forrest
> 


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