On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:41 pm, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've spent the last couple of days making sure I've got backups of EVERYTHING > and that I've made a list of all the product keys & activation codes for the > programs I use. I was planning to tackle the job on Thursday. Good luck :) I just had to rebuild a machine from backups this week. My home Linux server had a memory module go bad and it crapped all over the filesystem to the extent it was completely unrecoverable. Fsck found so many problems it had to expand /lost+found several times, and at the end I was left with a big pile of filesystem spaghetti, eg /etc became a symlink to some random file in /lib. I realised there was technically no need for hardware anymore so I set up another Virtualbox instance on my laptop, installed Debian and restored what I could from my very limited backups. If I'd had a full backup it would have been a lot quicker but it's probably for the best as I'm on a newer OS version. Today I had the pleasure of running DBAN on it and will take it to be recycled at some stage. I was sure to return my good DIMM to the old scanner machine :) Later on I have the pleasure of crawling around the roof removing all of the network cables as I'll no longer have a need for them once I move a phone socket, which I'll do at the same time. I hope the rat in the ceiling has either left or been tempted by the traps! (Last weekends job was to trim the lemon tree so the bastards can't get up there anymore.) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
