[wplug-bsd] Help with Disaster Recovery

[Bill Moran]

"Christopher C. McHugh" <cmchugh at captel.com> wrote:

> I am running a server with FreeBSD 5.  and while walking through a script I
> acidently told the OS  rm -Rf / instead of /tmp/file.  Most basic commands
> are gone, and no tape backup.  What is the easiest way of restoring the
> system while preserving what system files and configs are left?  Any help
> would be appreachiated.  
 
I would suggest you backup your data, along with any specific configs
(like /etc and/or /usr/local/etc) and rebuild the system from scratch
and restore.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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