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To be fair: you had this happen on a piece of consumer hardware which can boot off of any of several dozen live CDs or USB drives, available off the internet at
by blhack 17y ago
To be fair: you had this happen on a piece of consumer hardware which can boot off of any of several dozen live CDs or USB drives, available off the internet at megabit speeds using one of the (no doubt) several other pieces of consumer hardware you have in arms reach.
I wish! This was done on a VPS located god knows where and run by a company that was owned by people who didn't seem to speak any English. I remember emailing them and asking them if they could just move my dirs back using a chroot, but they had no clue what I was talking about. If I had allowed my SSH session to time out, I would have most-certainly lost the server and everything on it.
I have since switched to a combination of slicehost and linode.
- cperciva 17y ago... I would have most-certainly lost the server and everything on it. I have since switched to a combination of slicehost and linode. Switching to a different VPS provider is not the right way to prevent data loss. Doing backups is the right way to prevent data loss. :-)
- orborde 17y agoThis is true, but he gets props in my book for being smart enough to switch away. It seems surprisingly common that people don't do this.
- blhack 17y agoAbsolutely, and I didn't say that switching VPS providers was a replacement for backups (the linode and slicehost boxes now trade rsyncs every night which include mysqldumps). My point was that I think if a similar thing happened now, that the fine folks at either provider would be more able to help me out. Even still, I would much rather be able to just mv the dirs back to their proper location from a chroot than having to do a restore from scratch over the network.