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Old 10-28-2005, 09:22 AM   #1
wolveen
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Question Testing Recovery Mode..have Questions


Setup:
HDD1: XP Pro
HDD2: SuSE 10.0 and Ubuntu 5.10


Yesterday I was practicing what would I do in case of HDD failure.
I tried using the Boot/Install DVD for SUSE to recover.


Problems:
1) It asks me for my recovery Login:
OK what/where is that? Every User Name and password I threw into it wouldnt work. What am I doing wrong?

2) Even if I got into recovery mode, Im guessing its prompt based. Where could I find out how to Restore my grub? I know when Installing Ubuntu I can jump around in the Install menus to install grub. But I have SuSE's grub menu installed. If I chose to use Ubuntu's Installer would that mess things up?

3) I threw in an additional blank IDE HDD, and the Grub would fail. Unplug the IDE Drive and all is well again. Wierd. Was hoping to use the FAT formatted old IDE drive to swap files between the 3 OSs.


I know many of you probably have contingencies in place for adding/swapping hard drives. Backing up your Loader and restoring procedures. Can some of you share this?


Im currently using True Image for re-imaging the Entire Drive(s).
 
Old 10-29-2005, 02:18 AM   #2
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I use 3ware hardware RAID 10 with media error scanning. And I don't install multiple OS's on one hard drive. Next, I don't install windows because it will overwrite grub/lilo whenever it feels like it.

The rest, I typically backup the /etc directory to a CD just for posterity. But really, I don't need it and never have because linux doesn't screw up unless I login as root and mangle the thing on purpose. Just my experience.

You seem like you are experimenting with backups. But you are backing up a plaything system. Servers or workstations configured for stability that require backups are not configured that way. Never install windows unless you want to lose your MBR. Windows will break, and you will reinstall, and the MBR will be lost. You will then need a kernel boot floppy to reinstall LILO or GRUB on the MBR. And that sucks.

If you want to experiment with recovering principles, try prevention first. Then backups on a stable system. Acronis trueimage is nice- at least on version 9. It's based off of platespin and is one of the few hard drive backup utilities worth a shit. But it will still get confused when you have multiple OS's, and in fact has it's on boot loader that will overwrite LILO/GRUB as well- if you are using trueimage for backups- and doing it correctly.

As my name suggests, Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. And you won't get fucked. Good luck.
 
  


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