Minor disaster recovery
Jim Kuzdrall
gnhlug at intrel.com
Wed Aug 12 08:59:20 EDT 2009
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 08:16, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
> Its been at least 10 years since I have actually done a recovery of
> this sort...
>
> We will attempt to find a replacement drive today. We live in
> Brookline, NH and work in Bedford, MA. Any suggestions on stores or
> drive brands?
I have had good service from Showtime Computers in Hudson NH,
http://www.showtimepc.com/. They are tech-savvy and can give you
advice based on failure reports from customers.
>
> Any suggestions on recovery strategy? One strategy I had in mind is
> (if the old drive still runs) is to boot the old drive with the new
> as a secondary. Shut down all extra services. Partition and format
> the new drive. Copy the filesystem from the old to the new. Install
> Grub on the new (dont' know how, never done much with Grub) and boot
> it. Do some sort of restore from BackupPC to restore any libraries
> for files that have been corrupted.
Folks more expert than I will comment, but I suggest that you
install a fresh copy of Ubuntu 8.10 (exact same version as before) on
the new drive. All of the Ubuntu files will have creation dates
earlier than anything you changed. Take a look to see what that date
is. Then copy anything newer on your backup to the replacement disk.
>
> Other suggestions? ...or fill in the details (specifically the
> install of Grub and moving to the primary position) of what I have
> outlined?
I would be leery of recovering the operating system from the failing
disk. You would not know if a seldom-used file had a flaw in it.
Jim Kuzdrall
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