[TriLUG] system trashed - trying to recover

[Jon Carnes]

You should tar up /etc
  tar -czf my_etc.tgz /etc

Then ftp that over to a server.  That will get all your mail config
files as well as your aliases and login/passwords

To get all the mail in transit (assuming Sendmail) then you'll need to
get:
  /var/spool/mqueue  - mail in transit
  /var/spool/mail    - mail waiting for pop

If you need any help, let me know!

I've had this happen before where the disk crashed and I simply replaced
the disk and left the old disk in as a secondary IDE.  Then I moved data
over directly (at least the stuff that still existed after the crash.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 21:06, Greg wrote:
> 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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