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I lost power on my mail server, and evidently the timing was really bad because it looks like it corrupted my hdd. So, I booted up the installation disks, ran ...
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    Linux Rescue worked, now what?

    I lost power on my mail server, and evidently the timing was really bad because it looks like it corrupted my hdd. So, I booted up the installation disks, ran Linux Rescue, it mounted the drives and I ran the chroot command.

    So, how do I fix the disk from this point? The mount command seems to be telling me that it cant find the partition labelled root, but I can read the fstab. A reboot just takes me grub.

    I can see the directories after running rescue, and it appears that the files are present. And it appears to have network access. I would really like to back up everything before I really try anything desparate.

    If I decide just to stand up a new server, can I just copy the directories to a USB device and then to my new server, and still have all the same usernames and software? I suppose scp might work, but I havent tried that.
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    Backup data and boot up from LiveCD of any Linux distro. Execute fsck command on each partition. It will fix most of the errors.
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    And then...

    Ok, if that doesnt work, any pointers on trying to copy the files? I might be able to mount a USB drive. But I will only want to copy the users and installed software, not the drivers. Is there any simple way to do that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by akerber00 View Post
    Ok, if that doesnt work, any pointers on trying to copy the files? I might be able to mount a USB drive. But I will only want to copy the users and installed software, not the drivers. Is there any simple way to do that?
    Yes of course. Just booting from any LiveCD of distro and mount your partitions and go!
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