On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:10:26PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: > > > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, > > > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic > > > disc failure (still in waranty it turns out). > > > > > > The good news, is that I have Amanda runing every night, so I really > > > don't think I will lose anything. However I have a question about > > > how to recover from this. > > > > > restore your system from a clean install ( original cd or off the net )... > - unless yo know precisely why your system crashed/hung > ( do you know if the backup has the "thing" also backed up > ( that caused the "catastrophic failure", that restoring it > ( will cause another failure in the near future .. time will tell > Yes, I know I could do it this way. But That's not what I want. I want my system back the way it was, not the way a current install would set it up, for reasons I mentioned in a earlier reply.
The failure was a genuine hardware failure. Yhe IBM disktest software confirms it. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]