[TriLUG] Backup on USB HD lost

[Rick DeNatale]

Arghhh.

I had a similar scary moment recently.

I've just setup my rsync based backup system based on Jeremy's presentation. 

After this I had a problem with apache failing to start correctly
after I'd done an apt-get upgrade. I figured that one of the config
files had gotten clobbered when a new httpd package got installed.

So I figured that I'd diff the current httpd config files with a
recent backup.

I was horrified when I tried to look at /snapshot/hourly.2 and found
that the /snapshot directory was empty.

It took me a while to figure out that the problem was that my R/O
mount to snapshot wasn't automatic. I'd booted the system and lost the
mount.  When I mounted it it was there, so no big loss.

At least in my case it was just a momentary scare.


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:57:35 -0500, Tanner Lovelace
<clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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