[TriLUG] system trashed - trying to recover

[Greg]

Thanks for the offer to help - I think I have everything backed up at
this point.  I'm just concerned about the mail.  This machine is a
sendmail/POP sever and I have /var/spool/mail backed up which I think is
all I need to back up the pieces of mail that were not downloaded before
"the event".  I wouldn't be that worried about it except my VP's mail is
on there so I'm worried about not getting it all.

Greg

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:32, Jason Tower wrote:
> 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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