Following Martin's suggestion as to how to use grml
[Example instructions set out below for the clueless as to how to
recover/panicked people/those who need this in a hurry from finding
this as a desperate Google search]
grml will recognise an existing mdadm array if given
mdadm -A /dev/md0
Mounted the drive
mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /mnt/
I couldn't get the chroot to work (couldn't find zsh) - so tar'red up
the two copies (there was an old copy around) of the home directories I
needed and used grml-network to set up the network card.
cd /mnt/home
tar -pcvf andyhome2.tar /home/amacater
scp copied the files across to a remote machine.
scp andyhome2.tar 192.168.1.102:/home/amacater/
scp andyhome.tar 192.168.1.102:/home/amacater/
an untar for both tar files in separate directories followed by rsync
-avz from one to the other and I had a home directory structure
containing files from both copies.
mkdir andyhome
mkdir andy2home
(Copy the two tar files to their respective directories then tar -xvf
*tar later)
cd andyhome/amacater
rsync -pavz ../andy2home/amacater/* .
If I'd thought, I'd have saved all my mail by tarring up
/var/spool/mail/amacater as a separate item - but
there's not much I've lost.
Hope this helps someone else in a jam at some point.
All the very best,
Andy
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