Kablooey
Some kind of bug in LVM or parted blew away the root partition on one of our servers. My fault really: running unstable complex software on a machine without adequate backups. Life being what it is, I was in the process of installing more disk so that we could make full backups.
What I *should* have done was keep it simple: bring the machine down and boot from a bootable business card, rather than doing things with any partitions live. Not use LVM, but rather just put new partitions on each whole disk and use traditional unix symlinks to glue them into the right places.
How do you back up a fraction of a gigabyte of slow-changing data to CDs? I need some kind of knapsack-algorithm to split up the files...
posted Fri 19 Dec 2003 in /personal | link
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