On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Tyson Sawyerty...@j3.org wrote:
The filesystem on the system drive is (or should be) backed up.
Don't try. As Jeff Smith said, the more you tinker, the worse
things usually get.
If
Its been at least 10 years since I have actually done a recovery of
this sort. ...back then LILO was king and floppy drives were still in
use. I've been lucky enough to not do much sysadmin work in recent
years.
So...
I have a small home server running a not quite up to date version of
Ubuntu
Tyson Sawyer wrote:
Its been at least 10 years since I have actually done a recovery of
this sort. ...back then LILO was king and floppy drives were still in
use. I've been lucky enough to not do much sysadmin work in recent
years.
So...
I have a small home server running a not quite up
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 08:16, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
Its been at least 10 years since I have actually done a recovery of
this sort...
We will attempt to find a replacement drive today. We live in
Brookline, NH and work in Bedford, MA. Any suggestions on stores or
drive brands?
I
Step one - duplicate the drive. Do a dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (or
suitable drive with a new disk). You could also do dd if=/dev/sda
of=/var/disk-copy to create a file with the name.
One key I've found in recovering bad disks is to minimize the read/writes.
Do a copy and work with that.
jeff
At the risk of being told you so, add some infrastructure to your server.
For example, here's what I do:
2 drives in software RAID 1 for the OS (20 GB driver were cheapest when I
started).
2+ drives in software RAID 1 or 5 for DATA.
Monitor the drives for failure (logwatch sends a daily email)
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Tyson Sawyerty...@j3.org wrote:
The filesystem on the system drive is (or should be) backed up.
You need to explain that using a lot more words. :)
(e.g., how you back it up, using what software, how often, what you
backup, how you test the backups, when
Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Tyson Sawyerty...@j3.org wrote:
The filesystem on the system drive is (or should be) backed up.
You need to explain that using a lot more words. :)
(e.g., how you back it up, using what software, how often, what you
backup, how
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Alex Hewitthewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
Pretty much. What is different is how easy it is to get support/replacement.
It's easy with Western Digital and Seagate. Other vendors manufacture a lot
more than disk drives.
Good point. Products may be
Guys,
Thanks for the help. I wasn't able to go shopping today so rebuild is
going to take a little longer than I had hoped. Too bad I have a day
job.
Thanks for the suggestions for dd'ing the existing drive. If I go
with a fresh Ubuntu install, I shouldn't need it as I expect that I
have a
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