Are you using a RAID 1? I have a friend loose one of the disks in his RAID 1 without notice. Later the second disk died and the first miraculously came back to life. The result was an instantaneous four-month rollback.
- Sebastian On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Dennis Bagley wrote: > I sent this message to the rlug list (unfortunately several times) > yesterday but got > -0- feedback from anyone. I'm still looking for answers because I do > NOT want to accidentally > repeat the problem. > > So anyone have answers besides "42"? > > Thanks again > > Dennis > > > > Came into my office this morning to discover data missing from my PC. > > I am running Ubuntu 5.04 > > On Friday everything seemed to be intact and okay. I have a dual drive > system > and decided to put the newest version of Ubuntu (5.10) on the second > drive - it seemed to install just fine > and I was also able to reboot into the older version. I must admit that > I did not run any programs > other than email and the browser before leaving my office for the > weekend. > > HOWEVER, this morning when I tried to fire up VMWare - my virtual > machine files were GONE. The directory > where the files should have been was there but the files were not. > > Also missing: > all the bookmarks in my browser (Firefox) > all the pop3 mail on my system > all of the contacts I had in Evolution > all the "sent" mail > all special email folders I had created that contained data. > > > All my other primary files appear to be intact. Ideas? Have I been > hacked? Did the the install > screw something up? If so, how? > > (Fortunately I had a backup of the VM and the work data is stored on the > server. But I did not have a backup of > the email and contact info and that kinda torques me.) > > Thanks > > > Dennis > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
