On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 12:03:51 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > As for recovery, I always use "sysrescuecd" (http://www.sysresccd.org) > > > and this has Raid and LVM support in it. (Same with the Gentoo-livecds) > > > > sysrescuecd failed me hard two nights ago. 64bit kernel paniced with > > stack corruptions, 32bit kernel took an hour to unpack 300kb from a 20gb > > tar... > > > > it was pathetic... > > Never had a problem with it myself, but I always test rescuediscs semi- > regularly on all my machines, just to be sure. :) > > I'm also paranoid when it comes to backups of my private data.
because of my backup harddisk (I first copy everything on a seperate disk, then later the important stuff onto tapes), I was able to boot into a pretty actual system and untar from their. And suddenly I was hitting 100mb/sec+ writing speed...