Re: [rdiff-backup-users] critical irresponsible behaviour

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Mortee,

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, mortee wrote:

> To have my server up temporarily until I can acquire a real replacement 
> disk, I just put that HDD in, and booted from it in single user mode. I 
> mounted the backup disk, and (yes, this is arguably my fault) I haven't 
> paid extra attention to mount it read-only - I never thought in my worst 
> dreams that a restore operation on the root partition would ever erase 
> all the valuable data on the backup disk. So I just launched it 
> targeting the root directory using --force, and it happily erased 
> anything beyond the mount point, because that was (of course) excluded 
> from the system backup. Now I'm stuck with a dead system disk and an 
> empty backup of it - 5 years worth of emails, system configuration and 
> other stuff are gone in a few minutes. Now I'm not especially happy.

Sorry to hear that and thanks for the warning.

This may help you to get your data back:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html

Cheers, Chris.
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