Hello all,
This could be a learning experience... We have an old dinosaur running 4.0
E. The system recently (ok, it was three months ago) crashed due to a hard
drive failure. No problem, use a tape to restore. The only problem is that
there was only one tape and the drive flaked out and ate it during restore.
This left the system non-bootable and pretty much laying there in the fetal
position :-)
The good thing is that I had previously dumped the tape to another drive
under a directory called /data/Backup both as a precaution and in order to
pick out specific files to restore. I have no clue as to the integrety of
this data, because the dat drive was apparently flakey.
My question is, is it possible to restore from this state? Has anyone ever
been in this situation? I know the links are set up as "../yada/yada"
instead of "/yada/yada". If so, what stuff other than the kernel would I
have to copy? I know "/sys", "/sbin", "/etc", what other stuff is needed to
have a base working system? Will I have to install a base 4.0E and then
copy stuff ? The config on this machine is basically impossible to
duplicate unless we pay thousands for a guy to come out and reinstall 3rd
party software. Since we are testing the software on 4.0G (they can't
verify that it works with 4.0G), in order to replace the dinosaur with an
XP1000. We would then have to pay a second setup fee, not cheap. Plus, buy
the workstation.
Any help would be appreciated and this will be summarized. I'm sure there
are others that have been in this type of situation and have wondered the
same thing.
Thanks again,
Shane
Received on Fri Jun 29 2001 - 18:58:37 NZST