Re: Restoring vinum root from dump

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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:24:56 +0200
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org>

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> There's nothing special that you *need* to do for restoring to a Vinum
> volume. There are, however, things that are important when restoring
> system components. In particular, if you restore /usr/lib you'll
> replace the C library /usr/lib/libc.so. It's then possible to crash
> dynamically linked processes (since they no longer have libraries),
> after which you could be left with a mainly unusable system.
>
> Vinum offers a solution to this problem, as you've noted: detach a
> plex from each volume and restore to it. Then do some magic in single
> user mode to remove the other plex and attach the one you've just
> restored to. I'm not quite sure about the best way of doing this.
> I'll think about it, but if anybody else has suggestions for doing
> this with the least chance of shooting yourself in the foot, I'd be
> interested to hear them.
>
> Greg

I have tried different approaches a few times, but not only did I
shoot myself in the foot, I blew away everything from the neck down.
If there is a safe way to accomplish this, I would love a
step-by-step howto or examples from someone that has actually
accomplished this with a positive result.

--
R
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