2009/12/18 Jeronimo Calvo :
> Hi, how can i change that value on the MBR?
You can try reading this:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fdisk
Search for "active slice".
> 2009/12/18 Ivan Voras :
>> Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
>>>
>>> Ho folks,
>>>
>>> As a plan for a recovery planing due to a crash o
Hi, how can i change that value on the MBR?
2009/12/18 Ivan Voras :
> Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
>>
>> Ho folks,
>>
>> As a plan for a recovery planing due to a crash on a kernel Update,
>> when restarted I used to have F1 Freebsd and F2 Other, I choosed F2
>> wich seems to belong to an old linux insta
Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
Ho folks,
As a plan for a recovery planing due to a crash on a kernel Update,
when restarted I used to have F1 Freebsd and F2 Other, I choosed F2
wich seems to belong to an old linux installation and a Grub-error pop
up, after restarting again, Freebsd completly dissapear b
Ho folks,
As a plan for a recovery planing due to a crash on a kernel Update,
when restarted I used to have F1 Freebsd and F2 Other, I choosed F2
wich seems to belong to an old linux installation and a Grub-error pop
up, after restarting again, Freebsd completly dissapear booting just
that Old-Cra
i'm thinking about how to prepare for disaster recovery, e.g. a disk fails
and is replaced, on a server in a group of remote servers.
assume that policy and procedures are in place to keep freebsd up to date
and portmaster is used to keep ports up to date.
my idea is to use portmaster -
On Saturday 19 April 2008 11:08:36 Dino Vliet wrote:
>Hi folks,
>Yesterday disaster struck after I wanted to remove Gnome and issued
>the following command:
> pkg_deinstall -R x11/gnome* -x evolution
> I went to sleep and when I woke up I rebooted and got the login
> screen iso my norma
Hi folks,
Yesterday disaster struck after I wanted to remove Gnome and issued
the following command:
pkg_deinstall -R x11/gnome* -x evolution
I went to sleep and when I woke up I rebooted and got the login
screen iso my normal graphical GDM. I logged in as I normally do
and thought I wa
Martin Tournoij typed on 06/05/07 05:23:
> On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Martin Tournoij wrote:
>>> On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
Hello all,
I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a
"clever" hack were the main reasons), and
On Monday 07 May 2007 11:16 pm, Ian Smith wrote:
> Ray, I've been watching this thread, and you've had some good advice
> about backups etc, but if you really did 'rm -f *' in /usr/local (NOT
> 'rm -rf *') then it's very likely that you deleted no files at all.
sorry, should have said
rm -rf *
On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:05:42 -0600 Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
> a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
> right thing afterwards.
>
> The mistake:
> /usr/local/# rm -
At 07:05 PM 5/5/2007, Ray wrote:
Hello all,
I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
right thing afterwards.
The mistake:
/usr/local/# rm -f *
note that root was running bash as a shell at the
What I did was to start over, reinstall from scratch.
my question, was there an easier way?
Sure, just restore what you need from those backups you have
so diligently been making --- :-)
the best solution :)
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing
The mistake:
/usr/local/# rm -f *
note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found
in /usr/local/bin or something.
What I did was to start over, reinstall from scratch.
my question, was there an easier way?
yes.
do
rm -rf /var/db/ports
and then install all needed ports, as base
On Saturday 05 May 2007 9:23 pm, Martin Tournoij wrote:
> On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > Martin Tournoij wrote:
> > >On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
> > >>Hello all,
> > >>I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a
> > >> "clever" hack were the
On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Martin Tournoij wrote:
> >On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
> >>Hello all,
> >>I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a
> >>"clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did
> >>the right thing a
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:10:36PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Martin Tournoij wrote:
> > On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
> > > The mistake:
> > > /usr/local/# rm -f *
> > > note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found
> > > in /usr/local/bin or something.
> > >
> > > Wha
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:05:42PM -0600, Ray wrote:
> Hello all,
> I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
> a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
> right thing afterwards.
>
> The mistake:
> /usr/local/# rm -f *
> note that roo
Martin Tournoij wrote:
On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
Hello all,
I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
right thing afterwards.
The mistake:
/usr/local/# rm -f *
note that root was
On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote:
> Hello all,
> I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
> a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
> right thing afterwards.
>
> The mistake:
> /usr/local/# rm -f *
> note that root was running bas
Hello all,
I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with
a "clever" hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the
right thing afterwards.
The mistake:
/usr/local/# rm -f *
note that root was running bash as a shell at the time, found
in /usr/local/bin or
In the last episode (Oct 06), Grant Peel said:
> Possibly the last few questions.
>
> 1. After fdisk/disklabel/newfs, how do you drop to the shell (can I
> drop to tcsh?).
In sysinstall, pick Fixit, then CDROM/DVD. The default shell is
/bin/sh, but since you're on a livecd, you can switch to tcs
t;Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "freeBSD"
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery.
In the last episode (Oct 06), Grant Peel said:
Is it possible to boot the machine using a 'live&
Regards,
Uli.
-Grant
- Original Message - From: "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "freeBSD"
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery.
On 2006/10/06 5:34, Grant
e -
> From: "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "freeBSD"
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Disaster recovery.
>>
>> http://www.freesbie.org/
Yes, see Fre
In the last episode (Oct 06), Grant Peel said:
> Is it possible to boot the machine using a 'live' freebsd silesystem
> via cd? Then setup the /mnt , setup the new filesystems, then use
> restore to briung the real data to the disk?
>
> I guess my question really should have been, if you install a
uot;freeBSD"
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery.
On 2006/10/06 5:34, Grant Peel seems to have typed:
so the question is ... if I have the dumps on one machine, and I just
installed a new hard drive on another, in a nutshell, what are the steps
to
re
On 2006/10/06 5:34, Grant Peel seems to have typed:
> so the question is ... if I have the dumps on one machine, and I just
> installed a new hard drive on another, in a nutshell, what are the steps to
> restore the failed server. Can I use the FreeBSD 'live' filesystem? Is ther
> a step by step
Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I currently keep file dumps of all filesystems on our servers on a
secure raid 5 box, lees of course, the proc and swap dir.
These dumps look like this and are done and transfered to a NFS
filesystem in the /mnt/ dir.
server1-usr-full-dump
server1-home-full-dump
Hi all,
I currently keep file dumps of all filesystems on our servers on a secure
raid 5 box, lees of course, the proc and swap dir.
These dumps look like this and are done and transfered to a NFS filesystem
in the /mnt/ dir.
server1-usr-full-dump
server1-home-full-dump
server1-var-full-dum
On Friday 28 April 2006 13:41, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> > this weekend, im going to have to rebuild my 6.0 server in order to
> > recover from a faulty disk (i have to eliminate a RAID1 array, and break
> > rebuild the RAID5 with one more disk).
> >
> > all my daemons and whatnot, im pretty good a
Philip Hallstrom wrote:
this weekend, im going to have to rebuild my 6.0 server in order to
recover from a faulty disk (i have to eliminate a RAID1 array, and break
rebuild the RAID5 with one more disk).
all my daemons and whatnot, im pretty good at recovering. sendmail,
apache, mysql, etc, sho
this weekend, im going to have to rebuild my 6.0 server in order to
recover from a faulty disk (i have to eliminate a RAID1 array, and break
rebuild the RAID5 with one more disk).
all my daemons and whatnot, im pretty good at recovering. sendmail,
apache, mysql, etc, shouldnt be a problem.
what
this weekend, im going to have to rebuild my 6.0 server in order to
recover from a faulty disk (i have to eliminate a RAID1 array, and break
rebuild the RAID5 with one more disk).
all my daemons and whatnot, im pretty good at recovering. sendmail,
apache, mysql, etc, shouldnt be a problem.
what
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
>Madhusudan Singh
>Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:09 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Disaster recovery ?
>
>
>Hi
>
>I had a working FreeBSd 5.3 RELE
On Aug 30, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
I had a working FreeBSd 5.3 RELEASE server running postfix and zope
until
last night. When I checked it in the morning, it had a bunch of
"ad4 ...
UNRECOVERABLE ERROR" messages on it. Upon a reboot, it complains it
cannot
find /boot/load
Hi
I had a working FreeBSd 5.3 RELEASE server running postfix and zope until
last night. When I checked it in the morning, it had a bunch of "ad4 ...
UNRECOVERABLE ERROR" messages on it. Upon a reboot, it complains it cannot
find /boot/loader (error 16). Last week, it had shut down without any
app
I have a 10 disk VINUM configuration and two of the
disks are trashed. In theory there is still enough
redundant information to get things working again
without data loss.
Vinum has detected a configuration error (duh -- two
disks are toast, plus in recovery I accidently created
two more plexes)
>
> 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 R
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:12:14PM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> Here's how I plan to recover a system from a level 0 backup to
> new hardware, if ever the need arises:
>
> 1. boot off installation CD (or floppy??)
> 2. disklabel, make filesystems (using sysinstall)
> 3. restore root filesystem an
At 09:12 PM 6/24/2003 +1000, you wrote:
Here's how I plan to recover a system from a level 0 backup to
new hardware, if ever the need arises:
1. boot off installation CD (or floppy??)
2. disklabel, make filesystems (using sysinstall)
3. restore root filesystem and mount it
4. change fstab and
I keep a local copy ftpable of the version(s) I use.. Install just the
bin dist using floppy and the local ftpable - then full restore from tape
- and recompile the kernal just to be on the safe side.
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Sue Blake wrote:
> Here's how I plan to recover a system from a level 0 b
Here's how I plan to recover a system from a level 0 backup to
new hardware, if ever the need arises:
1. boot off installation CD (or floppy??)
2. disklabel, make filesystems (using sysinstall)
3. restore root filesystem and mount it
4. change fstab and various configs to work with new hardw
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