Re: Bare Metal Restore?

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 18:36, Josh Marshall wrote:

> Interesting... however I haven't tried it from a knoppix CD... I have an 
> emergency disk I've created myself that performs the task well on both Redhat 
> and Debian machines (Haven't tried fedora)

Knoppix is the best I've found for autodetecting any kind
of hardware and coming up working with the network active.
It is overkill for rescue work, but the price is right...

> Come to think of it, I'm not sure why you'd be having the chroot problems. I 
> just run:
> 
> chroot /targetdir /bin/bash
> 
> and I'm in as root... You might have to mount /proc once you're in to get 
> some 
> things to work as expected.

Even a chroot shell starts as a forked copy of a running
process.  I'd guess that enough differences between the
inherited running environment and the new layout/libraries,
etc. would break it.  It has always been easier to reboot
than to figure out the problem or dig up the syntax to
tell lilo/grub about alternate locations.


> In my opinion using X is an overkill for rescue operations, if you have 
> multiple tty's then you can do more than one thing at a time... also the 
> rescue cd I use is only 5Mb, knoppix is a full cd. I don't need all the 
> applications in knoppix to do a rescue.

It is nice to be able to browse online documentation and cut
and paste between windows.  Not necessary, but nice.  For
example, I might have the partition layout stored somewhere
on another machine or in a text file that can be found
by browsing the backuppc backup of the machine itself.  If
I've gone all out with documentation, I might find RAID
setup details on the company wiki.  You can probably find
another machine nearby for this but with X running you
don't have to.

----
  Les Mikesell
   les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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