Re: Emergency kit?

From: Eric Jon Rostetter (eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu)
Date: 10/09/01 

To: fergus <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Emergency kit?
Message-ID: <1002640730.3bc3155a1add9@mail.ph.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 10:18:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Eric Jon Rostetter <eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu>

Quoting fergus <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk>:

> On 02.10-05:47, Janto Trappe wrote:
> > * Systems Administrator <sysadmin@sunet.com.au> [17-09-01 10:36]:

[...]

> if you are capturing the fstab, i'd suggest getting a complete partition map
> of all disks so that you know the logical location of file systems.

I agree.

> this may become complicated with complex disk solutions (vinum || similar) but
> worth while for analysis - recovery of data.

Yes. We print out the parition tables, plus the fstab, plus the raid setup
files if they exist for software raid, etc. It can get very complicated.
 
> i'm not familiar with the tools but i guess they may already do this ? ?
> ?

We created our own script that goes through and grabs all the info we can
think of. Every few months we find we need another piece of info, and we
have to modify the script to add that piece. It is ever growing. It isn't
easy (since we try to make this script run on 3 OS versions, cover most
possible config files, etc) but it is worth the time when you loose a machine,
upgrade a machine, etc.

I think documentation is definately the place to start with any rescue or
emergency kit.

Eric Jon Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-1081

Office: RLM 7.126
Telephone: 512-471-5821
Email: eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu

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