Silicon Graphics OCTANE2 Owner's Manual page 235

If you do not have a CD-ROM drive, use a drive that is connected to another
Note:
system on the network and click Remote Directory in the System Recovery Menu. You
are prompted to enter the remote hostname. Type the system's name, a colon (:), and
the full pathname of the remote CD-ROM drive, followed by
access a CD-ROM drive on the system "mars," type the following:
mars:/CDROM/dist
After the system copies the required files from the local or remote CD, you can
restore your data from a recent full backup tape that was created using the System
Manager backup tool, or with the
If you need to check something on your system during the restore process, you
Tip:
can display a shell prompt by typing
If a local tape device is connected to your system, the following message appears:
Restore will be from <tapename> OK? ([Y]es, [N]o): [Y]
is the name of the local tape device.
tapename
If you are using a remote (network) tape device and the system does not find a tape
device, or you answer
Remote or local restore ([r]emote, [l]ocal):
• If you select remote, this initiates a network restoral, and you must know the
hostname, tape device name, and IP address of the remote system. You also
must know the IP address of your system. The IP address, such as 192.0.2.1,
always has four components separated by periods.
• If you select local, this means a tape device is connected to your system, and
you are prompted to enter the name of the tape device.
Then the following message appears:
Insert the first backup tape in the drive, then press <Enter>,
[q]uit (from recovery), [r]estart:
/usr/sbin/Backup
at most question prompts.
sh
to the above message, the following message appears:
No
Recovering From a System Crash
. For example, to
/dist
script.
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