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RE: [PLUG] restoring from a backup tape....
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What i did was the fresh install.
and did a restore of a previous install (a different version) from tape
I didn't update the boot loader however, which screwed up the boot,
but I believe the boot data from tape was corrupt anyway from god knows
how long ago?? a year and half ago was the last boot.
I couldn't use the CD's to boot from, because they didn't have the
drivers for the RAID array I needed to access.
In the long run, It worked better for us going to RH 8.0. Now Both of
our CPU's are running (since they are XEON's they show up a 4 cpus).
before we could only boot into linux-up, (again, the problem with drivers
with the RAID array). So now the system is moving! 4 Xeons working instead
of 1!
But alas, the only the problem I'm now down to (after frantic comparing
config files and updating the 8.0 system) is the /etc/group file issue
(see previous email).
George
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Jeff
> Abrahamson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:17 PM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] restoring from a backup tape....
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:50:07AM -0400, George Gallen wrote:
> > [23 lines, 94 words, 589 characters] Top characters: eona\nrlh
> >
> > ok.
> >
> > I have a backup tape of the 7.2 system.
> >
> > last night I tried doing an install of 8.0, then went into single
> > user and did a full restore from tape of / (which kind of co-mingled
> > 8.0 with the 7.2)
> >
> > Did a reboot, the 8.0 boot choices came up, and it hung during
> > initialization.
>
> Restore, then move the drive to another machine to read the stuff off
> that you want.
>
> Alternatively, chroot to somewhere harmless before doing the restore.
>
> --
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Abrahamson <http://jeff.purple.com/> +1 215/837-2287
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