[SunHELP] Recovering Files

powlow me at powlow.com
Wed Mar 6 09:33:22 CST 2002


is the r switch necessary?

i have always done just boot cdrom -s

-paulo

> Mr. Jameel,
> You have to boot your system from the cdrom (boot cdrom -rs) if you have a
> backup tape you can format the affected partition by using newufs command
> then restore it from the tape otherwise try to check ur files manually
after
> booting from cdrom.
> 
> Zakaria Mattar.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf
> Of Jeff Feller
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:13 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] Recovering Files
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I wrote a while back saying I was getting a "SCSI Bus is Hung" error on
> boot up and just now found out (after finally trying) it was my primary
> hard drive, the drive with the actual OS on it that seems to be bad.
> 
> Now my question is.. how can I put in the other hard drive (the drive that
> I beleive was setup as /usr/local/share) and recover all the files on that
> drive?  Whatever partition this was is where I kept all my samba files..
> 
> I know this has GOT to be an easy thing to do.. I just can't seem to think
> right now.  I tried booting off another drive that had Solaris on it, but
> I was getting all sorts of bootup errors because the other drive wasn't in
> there and so on.  Please help as soon as possible :)  THANK YOU!
> 
> 
> Jeff Feller
> BitZ Communications
> 1829 South Broadway, Suite 1
> Minot, ND  58701
> 
> Tel: (701) 838-9211
> Web: http://www.bitz.net/
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