RE: File rescue

[Kurtis Martineau <klmartineau-at-shaw.ca>]

Thanks all,

I knew there was an easy way of doing this.  Tragically, I left the
important hard drive connected when I ran the BDI...Not good...A little bit
of knowledge can be a dangerous thing.  Hind site is so clear.

I am NOW going to work the steps needed to  a complete redundant back up
system for worst case scenarios.  Down time is a killer...and very
embarrassing too.

Humbly,

Kurtis


> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Jon Elson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:32 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: File rescue
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> Kurtis Martineau wrote:
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> >My motherboard failed on my emc pc, but my hard drive still has
> files that I
> >want to recover.  Is there a way to connect the important hard
> drive to ide2
> >on a different linux pc and copy the files over?
> >
> >I did this with RLinux and a windows box and then burned a cd.
> Unfortunetly
> >all the files copied with their permissions set to executable.
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> Well, it sounds like you already know a fair bit.  Boot the linux system
> normally, and log in
> as root.  mount the new hard drive with something like :
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> mount /dev/hdc5 /mnt/floppy
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> and then you can examine the file structure with commands like
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> ls -al /mnt/floppy
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> You could make a backup of the disk (if it will fit) with xcdroast or
> some similar CD burning
> program.
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> You could compress and backup files from the hard drive with something
> like :
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> tar czvf backup.tgz /mnt/floppy/xx
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> You'd extract those files like this :
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> tar xzvf backup.tgz filenames
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> Hope this helps!
>
> Jon
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