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by **Jean-Francois Malou** » Thu, 12 Jan 1995 02:56:28

Greetings,

A disk crashed beyond any repairs in an Indy during the weekend.
I called the TAC, got a brand new disk and now I have to restore
the data on it using backups that were made using "dump" on an
exabyte-8500 hooked up to a Sun (I have full and incremental dumps).

How should I proceed? Like this?

1) boot inst from a CDROM
2) goto "admin" and create a filesystem (say "mkfs /dev/dsk/dks0d1s0")
3) mount /dev/dsk/dks0d1s0 /mnt
4) goto "sh": cd /mnt
5) restore rf remotehost:/dev/tape
6) restore up to the last incremental
7) bingo

But how do I tell an unconfigured Indy to do the restore from
a remote host? i.e., step 5) will obviously fail. So how do I proceed to
restore my disk the way it was prior to the crash apart from reinstalling
everything from the CD's and manually restoring my users directories?

And, no, I don't use bru because I don't have tape drives connected
to sgi's for reasons that I won't explain here ;)

Thanks a lot, JF

by **Randolph J. Herbe** » Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:03:55

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|Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
|Subject: Disk crashed: How to full-restore it?
|Date: 10 Jan 1995 17:56:28 GMT

|Greetings,

|A disk crashed beyond any repairs in an Indy during the weekend.
|I called the TAC, got a brand new disk and now I have to restore
|the data on it using backups that were made using "dump" on an
|exabyte-8500 hooked up to a Sun (I have full and incremental dumps).

|How should I proceed? Like this?

|But how do I tell an unconfigured Indy to do the restore from
|a remote host? i.e., step 5) will obviously fail. So how do I proceed to
|restore my disk the way it was prior to the crash apart from reinstalling
|everything from the CD's and manually restoring my users directories?

|And, no, I don't use bru because I don't have tape drives connected
|to sgi's for reasons that I won't explain here ;)

|Thanks a lot, JF

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If I correctly understand your problem:

You need to do an `ifconfig ec0 ww.xx.yy.zz' or a `ifconfig w.xx.yy.zz',
depending on your Ethernet interface type, where ww.xx.yy.zz is your
system's IP address.

You can either edit the miniroot's /etc/hosts file or:

(where qq.rr.ss.tt is the remote system's IP address). If the remote
system is not on the same subnet as your system, you most likely will
also need to do a `route add default aa.bb.cc.dd 1' to establish an
appropriate default route.

I hope this helps.

(Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.)
(Product, trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)

by **Jean-Francois Malou** » Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:09:48

: If I correctly understand your problem:

: You need to do an `ifconfig ec0 ww.xx.yy.zz' or a `ifconfig w.xx.yy.zz',
: depending on your Ethernet interface type, where ww.xx.yy.zz is your
: system's IP address.

: You can either edit the miniroot's /etc/hosts file or:

: (where qq.rr.ss.tt is the remote system's IP address). If the remote
: system is not on the same subnet as your system, you most likely will
: also need to do a `route add default aa.bb.cc.dd 1' to establish an
: appropriate default route.

: I hope this helps.

It sure did. Thanks,
JF

: (Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.)
: (Product, trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)