Re: Disaster recovery help, please
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:10:26PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
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> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote:
> > > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine,
> > > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic
> > > disc failure (still in waranty it turns out).
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> > > The good news, is that I have Amanda runing every night, so I really
> > > don't think I will lose anything. However I have a question about
> > > how to recover from this.
> > >
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> restore your system from a clean install ( original cd or off the net )...
> - unless yo know precisely why your system crashed/hung
> ( do you know if the backup has the "thing" also backed up
> ( that caused the "catastrophic failure", that restoring it
> ( will cause another failure in the near future .. time will tell
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Yes, I know I could do it this way. But That's not what I want. I want my
system back the way it was, not the way a current install would set it up,
for reasons I mentioned in a earlier reply.
The failure was a genuine hardware failure. Yhe IBM disktest software
confirms it.
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