On 23/10/06, Brian E. Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're really going to think me stupid now. I thought I did have most of the records backed up from the last time that I made a back-up DVD. But I discovered that somehow or other all my directories had been saved as files - which are of course un-openable. The only thing I can think of to explain that is that I had dragged the directories into the wrong pane in K3b. C'est la vie! I've made a new back-up DVD, and checked the directories are directories and all the files can be opened from inside them.
I don't think you stupid. As far as the kernel is concerned, all directories _are_ files. Try copying the DVD to a hard disk and see if you can open the directories. You can verify how much info is on the disk by looking at the laser side of it and seeing how far it was burned. If it's pretty empty, then you may be in bad shape. But if it's burned a good way down, then the data is there, you're just not reading it. What filesystem was the data on before it went to DVD? Waht distro are you on? Try posting in your distro's mailing list, they may be able to help you get the data off the disk. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/spam.html http://technology-sleuth.com/short_answer/what_is_hdtv.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
