Arghhh. I had a similar scary moment recently.
I've just setup my rsync based backup system based on Jeremy's presentation. After this I had a problem with apache failing to start correctly after I'd done an apt-get upgrade. I figured that one of the config files had gotten clobbered when a new httpd package got installed. So I figured that I'd diff the current httpd config files with a recent backup. I was horrified when I tried to look at /snapshot/hourly.2 and found that the /snapshot directory was empty. It took me a while to figure out that the problem was that my R/O mount to snapshot wasn't automatic. I'd booted the system and lost the mount. When I mounted it it was there, so no big loss. At least in my case it was just a momentary scare. On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:57:35 -0500, Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:19:16 -0800 (PST), Victor Snesarev > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thinking about this more, I think I know what happened. > > > > Last time I rebooted the server, the USB drive was off, so it was not > > automounted even though there is an entry in /etc/fstab. When I turned the > > drive on, I didn't mount it manually. So, when I started copying files to > > /mnt/usbdrive, I was actually copying them from one place on an internal HD > > to > > /mnt/usbdrive on the same HD and no info was actually written to the USB HD > > because it was not mounted to that directory. Of course, when the internal > > HD > > was formatted during Slack install, /mnt/usbdrive was formatted along with > > it. > > Doh! > > > > Keeping my fingers crossed for "foremost" ability to recover files. > > Ouch! That's painful just reading that, especially since I can see myself > doing the same thing! (Doh!) Good luck. > > Cheers, > Tanner > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
