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Re: retro restores in X

At 8:32 AM -0700 1/27/03, Matt Federoff wrote:
I can simply put a new one in,
format and use retrospect to restore the server and it's immediately ready
to go with all users, groups, passwords, permissions, netinfo database,
etc... First - could someone confirm this for me?

The problem with this is that on that new drive you would then have to install the OS (exact same one as you want to replace it with, which could be a pain with updates and whatnot), and then the retro client, and then config in the retro software, etc, etc...

The concept that Retrospect is useful for anything other than restoring files is a crock. It's concept of restoring system disks is almost a joke. For bare metal recovery of system disks I recommend using hfstar and keeping a copy of it (and gnuzip if you used a compressed tar archive) on the backup drive. Then boot single user on the target system, mount the drives (`mount -t synthfs /dev.null /Volumes ; autodiskmount -va`) and then restore the tar archive using the binaries for hfstar and gnuzip on the backup drive. Works like a charm and is *much* faster than Retrospect too. Not as pretty, but it is bare metal.

My plan is to aim the restore at an external firewire drive, then take the firewire drive over to the server, install the new hard drive in the server, and use CCC to copy over the restore drive from the FW to the new internal drive. Much easier and faster.

any holes in my plan?

CCC won't create a bootable drive for any Mac that requires and xcoff to boot, but then again in these situations you always have to load nvramrc, `bless -device` (which formats the volume), restore and then `bless -folder`. CCC only does the last two steps, it doesn't handle xcoffs or nvram at all.
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