On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:49:41 -0500 Eben King <e...@gmx.us> wrote: > So what can I do to fix this, while still > keeping my history, cookies, tabs, etc?
I smell a rat. I wonder if the corruption is because your hard drive is failing. I would first boot to a live CD and run smartctl tests on it. How did you do the backup? Per file (e.g. rsnapshot or amanda), or per block device (e.g. dd if=/dev/sda1 of=…)? If you know the relevant files and have a per file backup, restoring them should be a matter of selecting the correct file. If you don't know the relevant files (likely with modern GUIs), consider saving off the whole kazoo (e.g. mv /home/name /home/name.old) and then restoring from backup. That means you loose everything since the last backup, except for files you can identify in the saved copy. Be sure the ownership and permissions on the new /home/name are correct. I am assuming that the corruption is all in /home and that it is included in your backups. If either one of those is false, you may be in deep yogurt. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
