[TriLUG] system trashed - trying to recover

[Greg]

Okay - I have anonymous FTP working and I'm uploading the files now.

So the main question becomes: what should I back up other than
/var/spool/mail, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /home?

Any ideas would be very welcomed.

Greg

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 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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