[wplug-bsd] Help with Disaster Recovery

[Bill Moran]

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

> Yeah that is where things are looking to go at the moment.  I inherited this
> network 2 days ago and they do not have any backup systems in place, this
> will soon be changing.  Thanks for your time.

The main issue is that any other technique is liable to result in one of
two things:
1) accidentally overwriting a config or something similar
2) Not getting everything you need 

Whereas the approach below should dodge both of those problems.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 13:48
> To: Christopher C. McHugh
> Cc: wplug-bsd at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug-bsd] Help with Disaster Recovery
> 
> "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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