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Chapter 4: Troubleshooting
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After everything is copied from the CD to the system disk, you can restore your
data from a recent full backup tape. The backup must be one that has been made
using the System Manager backup tool, or with the
Tip: If you need to check something on your system during the restore process, you
can get a shell prompt by typing
6. If you have a local tape device, you would answer the following message:
Restore will be from <tapename> OK? ([Y]es, [N]o): [Y]
is the name of the local tape device.
tapename
7. If you have a remote (network) tape device, when no tape device is found, or when
you answered "No" to the question in the previous step, you would answer the
following message:
Remote or local restore ([r]emote, [l]ocal):
Select an answer as follows:
• Select "remote," if you want to restore from the network, and you know the
hostname, tape device name, and IP address of the remote system. You also
need to know the IP address of your system. The IP address, such as 192.0.2.1,
always has four components separated by periods.
• Select "local," to choose a tape device that is connected to your system. You will
be prompted to enter the name of the tape device.
8. When you see the following message, remove the CD-ROM, insert your most recent
full backup tape, and then press
Insert the first backup tape in the drive, then press <Enter>,
[q]uit (from recovery), [r]estart:
There is a pause while the program retrieves several files from the tape describing
the system state at the time the backup was made. Then you see this message:
Erase /x filesystem and make new one (y,n)? [n]
It prompts you to answer for each filesystem that was known at the time of the
backup. Select an answer as follows:
• If you answer
n
Then it uses your backup tape to replace the files it could not salvage. Usually
you should answer no, especially if your backup tape is not very recent. If the
at most question prompts.
sh
.
Enter
for no, the system tries to salvage as many files as possible.
script.
/usr/sbin/Backup
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