Emergency! Accidental format of ext3

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:50:11PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> It's the same machine...
> 
> The most ironic, most painful aspect of all this is that I am writting a 
> backup program because I was unable to find a decent backup program out 
> there. The program is so close to working that it hurts but it isn't 
> quite ready yet. As Lance mentioned we inherited this server from a 
> client so we were just waiting to get the program up before adding it to 
> the backup server once it's ready.
> 
> As Murphy's law would have it, this all happens just before we implement 
> the backup.
> 
> GAH!!!
> 
> I have that sinking sick feeling... It was such a stupid damn move  on 
> my part, I knew better...
> 
> I want to crawl in a corner and cry for a few hours...
> 
> Anyway, enough belly aching; I have to get back to it. I found an 
> identical model number drive in the office so I am going to try dd'ing it.

You can also dd to a file to store on a larger drive somewhere just to
avoid messing with the original drive a much as possible.

Lennart Sorensen
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