Zhang Weiwu <[email protected]> wrote: > on a practical level, is there a suggestion what we could do /now/ to > recover the website? That would indeed be very helpful.
The problem with a lot of backup methods is that it is WORN (write once, read never) until you need it. People should always test their meckup method before there is a need for it. > If you need the information whether or not we used mkisofs in order to > provide any suggestion on recovering data, the answer is very likely > "no" because all computers here run debian and the previous employees > working here (who does the backup), most of them just use whatever > debian offers as part of the default installation that contains gnome. I recommend you to start with installing recent original software from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ and then to run "isoinfo -i devname -d" in order to check thether the medium contains a ISO-9660 filesystem at all. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
