[Dump-users] full restore over network with ssh

[Oliver A R. <ol...@ph...>]

	Hello!

  My problem is to fully recover a system after a hard disk (/dev/hda)
failure over the network using ssh from a remote host which has a tape
drive (/dev/nst0).

  What I did so far: After a failure of /dev/hda on a Redhat Linux 7.x,
the BIOS does not see hda any more. I removed the non-responding hard disk
drive and replaced it with an appearantly working hard disk of the same
kind, but with a differently configured Redhat 7.x system and with
different partitions. Booting from the new (unchanged) drive leads to
kernel panic ("killing the idle task", or something like that), but I can
boot from floppy.

  The problem is, that a rescue disk I downloaded from the net (TOMSRTBT)
does not know ssh, sshd or restore, and the bootdisk I created with
"mkbootdisk", even though adverticed as "stand-alone", insists on mounting
at least one hard drive partition as "/". When I commented out the lines
in /etc/fstab, it mounted the "/" hard disk partition anyway and went into
repair mode.

  It seems to me I need a boot-and-root floppy with ssh or sshd and tools
to partition (How is this done, by the way?) the hard drive and create
file systems. Anybody knows how to get one?

  Thanks a lot.
	
	Take care
	Oliver

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