Well, I now be the only one (I think) to have reponded to my own thread ;).
First off, I shouldn't have even posted these questions; I was just too
damned tired and making too many mistakes. Once I slept and thought about
it logically, I realized there was no way what I was trying to do would
work. Eventually I just told the folks I was working with to get me a copy
of all the backups in tar format, restored 'em, installed lilo, and viola.
All was well.
So thanks all for listening to me rant =-)
-Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Sweeney
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:34 AM
> To: Techtalk@Linuxchix. Org
> Subject: RE: [techtalk] bare metal recovery nightmare
>
>
> Hmmm..should've seen this sooner. Looks like I'm having
> permissions issues.
> Must've dropped a -p flag somewhere. I changed all the /bin, /sbin, and
> /etc permissions appropriately. Now it boots and I get the following
> (RedHat stuff):
>
> (lots of services start ok; sendmail complains 'cause of a permission
> problem. I'll fix that later.)
> Starting SMB services: OK
> Starting NMB services: OK
> Starting local
>
> ...and it just sits there. The / fs hard drive seems active, but nothing
> else happens.
>
> *ARGH*
>
> I *KNOW* I'm missing something simple. I'm just really tired and really
> frustrated and what should've been a relatively easy system
> restore (all the
> user data was on a different partition, just need /) has turned into an 8
> hour fiasco for various reasons.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Sweeney
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:20 AM
> > To: Techtalk@Linuxchix. Org
> > Subject: [techtalk] bare metal recovery nightmare
> >
> >
> > 'lo all-
> >
> > K', so it's not quite bare-metal, but it's close enough. Lost
> the root fs
> > on a production server I've got. No prob, have it backed up to
> tape, but
> > for various reasons can't get it right over. Had to copy several times
> > first; scp -rp and cp -Rpv. Now I'm getting lots of complaints...most
> > obvious was "mount: only root can do that"; looked like it was
> related to
> > /proc.
> >
> > This was really just root fs stuff /var and /usr, /home and
> > others were all
> > on other partitions. Don't know why it's upset.
> >
> > Sorry to be curt; been working on this for hours and I'm exhausted.
> >
> > Suggestions? Thanks.
> >
> > -Brian
> >
> >
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