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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Thu, 4 May 2006 01:58:39 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> 
> Do you have space to keep a second copy of your BL setup on a second hard 
> drive?

    Yes, I have copies of the /home/ron directory (pruned to the essentials) 
copied to a few other partitions and to a USB external HD.

     The non-essentials have been removed to a separate directory to reduce 
the size of the back-ups - the original loss was a directory of over 8 GB !   
It seems I got 99.9 % of it back.  I am a lucky boy !

> 
> On Thu, 4 May 2006, Ron Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >    Well, more by luck than judgement, I managed to recover the /home 
> > directory that I had accidentally deleted, and I am back in business.
> >
> >    It has been a stressful few days !   All my passwords (email accounts, 
> > domain management) had gone.
> >
> >    It was made possible by having a full distro of SW9.1 on another 
> > partition, and with the wonderful capabilities of the resident mc, which 
> > has an "undelete in ext2" function.
> >
> >    You can now bet that I have backups of the core information from 
> > /home/ron stashed in several different places now.  I would not want to 
> > go through that again.  My installation of a much-enhanced BL2 has become 
> > mission-critical, a fact which became obvious as soon as it was 
> > unavailable.

Regards,
         Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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