[TriLUG] system trashed - trying to recover

[Jason Tower]

i've had two situations similar to this in recent months, and knoppix saved me 
both times.  assuming the disks and partitions are more or less intact, you 
should be able to boot knoppix, mount the partitions you want to copy, and 
transfer the data to another machine via ethernet (i found it much easier to 
use scp to do the transfer rather than nfs).

good luck, let me know if you need any help.

jason

On Friday 07 February 2003 20:33, Greg wrote:
> Today a bad thing happened. One of my production machines (my small mail
> sever) went belly-up.  I have the box at home now attempting to do a
> restore.  I am having some problems.
>
> 1. I popped in my RH 7.1 CD and booted 'linux rescue'
> 2. my system is now mounted under /mnt/sysimage
> 3. I got a IP address on eth0 by issuing 'pump -i eth0' - good
> 4. I have tried to FTP - this failes.  - bad
> 5. I have tried to NFS mount a volume from my server - bad
> 6. I tried a sftp which failed - bad
>
> When I attempt to FTP to my server I am prompted for a username, which I
> enter then it says "enter password" but never gets to a prompt.  It
> hangs for a second or two then just comes back with 'failed'.
>
> I have created a /mnt/sysimage/tmp/backup directory.  In this directory
> I have tarred /mnt/sysimage/home and /mnt/sysimage/var/spool/mail.  I
> have also copied /mnt/sysimage/etc/passwd (and shadow).
>
> Does anyone have ANY idea on how to get this data off the harddrive?  I
> would very much like to get this data backed up before I re-install the
> system and apply the updates.
>
> Also - what other files would you backup?  This machine is essentially a
> mail server - no http, samba, etc.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
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