Re: Backup questions, was Re: hd problem

2003-08-18 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:44:37 -0700 Ian Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:03, David A. Bandel wrote: > > > > > cpio has always had the advantage that it will grab > > special files that tar won't. > > What format is best for cpio, or does it matter? I see the defau

Backup questions, was Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Ian Stephen
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:03, David A. Bandel wrote: > > cpio has always had the advantage that it will grab > special files that tar won't. What format is best for cpio, or does it matter? I see the default is 'bin', but that bin is also obsolete. Is ustar better? thanks, -- Ian Stephen <[

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:13, Shawn Tayler wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:41:48 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > professed: > > > What we do have in Australia is electronic tax, that has to be sent > > quarterly, its like a VAT system. It is for windows only and installs > > ONLY on C dri

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:41:48 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> professed: > What we do have in Australia is electronic tax, that has to be sent > quarterly, its like a VAT system. It is for windows only and installs > ONLY on C drive, typical Govt program, so I cannot get rid of windows > un

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:17 am, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: > Keith Antoine wrote inter alia: > > Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and > > fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the > > motherboard, could this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:03 am, David A. Bandel wrote: > AFAIK, ftp wasn't designed for recursive transfers. For that, I would > use rsync. That said, I use cpio to grab directories/disks. Generally, > I create a TOC using find, then cat that TOC through cpio with all the > appropriate switches.

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:21 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: > Do you have a backup of your data? Only partial; no where near enough. But that was their problem, they had GHOST installed, but I made the mistake of thinking that they would do a regular backup. > If no, boot using Knoppix and pull all

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:38:33 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a recent bad experience using Knoppix to recover data. > > I recently used Knoppix to recover data on my dual boot machine when > my lindows installation got whacked when XP crashed. (It was curious. > The lindows bo

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Keith Antoine wrote inter alia: Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the motherboard, couldĀ  this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way to fix without losing allĀ  the data? It looks to me as if

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Joel Hammer
Just a recent bad experience using Knoppix to recover data. I recently used Knoppix to recover data on my dual boot machine when my lindows installation got whacked when XP crashed. (It was curious. The lindows boot process just seemed to end very prematurely as shown in messages but the thing sti

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:23:59 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry this is really M$ related but: > I had a customer with a constant rebooting machine, which we found was > a motherboard problem, PSU was fine and also switch was. So I used the > latest Gigabyte motherboard as a re

hd problem

2003-08-16 Thread Keith Antoine
Sorry this is really M$ related but: I had a customer with a constant rebooting machine, which we found was a motherboard problem, PSU was fine and also switch was. So I used the latest Gigabyte motherboard as a replacement GA-700N-400Pro, which was an advanced board on the older 333 motherboard