Actually, this could be a really fun topic. Here's what I'd like everyone
to do:
If you have a backup script (or scripts) document it and send it to me.
I'll make a presentation out of what I recieve. Then, on January 12th
(next meeting), if you can make it we'll take turns discussing our
scripts. Afterwards, all backup scripts will be made available on the
website.
What do you think?
- Sebastian
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Sebastian Smith wrote:
*ooo* a topic for the next meeting. "Backing up your data -- a scripted
approach". I've been looking for inspiration. Thanks Brian!
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Brian Morris wrote:
Dennis,
This will not help you now, but I want to point out that your situation
is a clear reminder for everyone of why backing up is so important. I
can't imagine why anyone, even you, would be doing something as drastic
as setting up a multi-boot, upgrading the OS from a bootable CD, etc.
without backing up first.
If it's important, keep it backed up.
Brian
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:59 -0800, Dennis Bagley wrote:
I had about 1 year's worth of popmail, about 1/2 gig of downloads of
various sorts,
about 3 gigs of music, about 25 eBooks, all my email contacts, a
Windows virtual machine for VMWare,
All my bookmarks for Firefox. You see the pattern - basically all
data that was in /home/dennis
except all the directories still exist! just no data in them!
Dennis
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:31 -0800, Sebastian Smith wrote:
Here's something we haven't discussed:
Assume your data is on the drive. You MUST mount the effected drive read
only so that you don't accidentally overwrite any deleted information.
Every bit written is a bit lost.
What type of data were you storing primarily, and what do you want back?
- 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
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