[TriLUG] Backup on USB HD lost

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:19:16 -0800 (PST), Victor Snesarev
<vnsnes at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thinking about this more, I think I know what happened.
> 
> Last time I rebooted the server, the USB drive was off, so it was not
> automounted even though there is an entry in /etc/fstab. When I turned the
> drive on, I didn't mount it manually. So, when I started copying files to
> /mnt/usbdrive, I was actually copying them from one place on an internal HD to
> /mnt/usbdrive on the same HD and no info was actually written to the USB HD
> because it was not mounted to that directory. Of course, when the internal HD
> was formatted during Slack install, /mnt/usbdrive was formatted along with it.
> Doh!
> 
> Keeping my fingers crossed for "foremost" ability to recover files.

Ouch!  That's painful just reading that, especially since I can see myself
doing the same thing! (Doh!)  Good luck.

Cheers,
Tanner