Hi Mortee, On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, mortee wrote:
> To have my server up temporarily until I can acquire a real replacement > disk, I just put that HDD in, and booted from it in single user mode. I > mounted the backup disk, and (yes, this is arguably my fault) I haven't > paid extra attention to mount it read-only - I never thought in my worst > dreams that a restore operation on the root partition would ever erase > all the valuable data on the backup disk. So I just launched it > targeting the root directory using --force, and it happily erased > anything beyond the mount point, because that was (of course) excluded > from the system backup. Now I'm stuck with a dead system disk and an > empty backup of it - 5 years worth of emails, system configuration and > other stuff are gone in a few minutes. Now I'm not especially happy. Sorry to hear that and thanks for the warning. This may help you to get your data back: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html Cheers, Chris. -- _____ __ _ \ __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson <0000 at qwirx.com> - Cambs UK | / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Ruby/Perl/SQL Developer | \ _/_/_/_//_/___/ | We are GNU : free your mind & your software | _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
