On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 lbedford at wbtsystems.com wrote:
> Right, like the eejit that I am, I was doing backups of my
> _very_ important clearcase server last night, using ufsdump.
> And I did a test backup, and that worked, so I went for:
> ufsdump 0uf /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 <filesystems>
>> and forgot to put in the tape device... so I now have a screwed up
> root partition. I have a backup of that (it's what I used to test it),
> but because root is screwed, I can't use tcp to access the tape device,
> which is on another machine, and I can't reboot to put the tape drive
> on this machine...
>> so, is there a Solaris 7 CD rescue boot thingy, where I can bypass
> the root partition (I could move the tape drive then)?
You can boot from the Solaris 7 Release CD. Once this has booted,
and before it starts to install, it will give you an option to exit to shell.
Take this option. This will enter the machine into the `miniroot` shell.
From here you can newfs & fsck the /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 partition. Then
mount the /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 as /a. You can then restore the ufsdump using
ufsrestore from a local tape drive. NB. Don't forget to change directory
to /a before you do this.
....Miles
kcolfer at iol.iekieran.colfer at ireland.sun.comhttp://ireland.iol.ie/~kcolfer
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