[MLUG] A recovery story

[Chris O'Regan]

> This is my own little recovery story which had a happy ending a few
> minutes ago.  I thought I would share it with the group since it might
> be useful.  Though to be honest, I wouldn't have had to work this hard
> if I had finished doing my backup. (It takes a while to burn 500GB)

Eeek! How many DVDs?! This begs the question, how do MLUGers backup 
their data?

> [...] A few minutes of
> holding the "y" key to fix everything and my data was back.

You can specify the '-y' option to automatically answer yes, however if 
you have to resort to using this option, then you likely have some 
serious data corruption. Of course, you knew that already. ;-) Remember 
to check the lost+found directory in each partition as some orphaned 
files may have ended up there.

> I'm really happy that we have such quality tools to work with under
> Linux.

Thanks for sharing your story. Everyone should have these tools on a 
rescue disk. Check out the SystemRescueCd project:

	http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page


Chris