Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 5/10/2013 3:56 AM, Rock wrote: > It gave a message that it was unrecognized or corrupted. > So I googled, & found a Microsoft Support page saying to run: > chkdsk /F E: > So I ran that, and now the USB drive was recognized. > But it "appeared" empty. Never run chkdsk if you are not 100% sure!

[CentOS] CentOS 6-6.3 -> no updates and security fixes?

2013-05-10 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I've found: This directory (and version of CentOS) is depreciated. For normal users, you should use /6/ and not /6.3/ in your path. Please see this FAQ concerning the CentOS release scheme: http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=34 If you know what you are doing, and abso

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6-6.3 -> no updates and security fixes?

2013-05-10 Thread Eero Volotinen
Because 6.4 contains all fixes and is ABI compatible? just do upgrade with yum. 2013/5/10 Rafał Radecki > Hi All. > > I've found: > > This directory (and version of CentOS) is depreciated. For normal users, > you should use /6/ and not /6.3/ in your path. Please see this FAQ > concerning the C

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6-6.3 -> no updates and security fixes?

2013-05-10 Thread Thomas Göttgens
Hi Rafael, think of dot releases as a kind of service pack. It's a sliding update. Once 6.4 is out, all fixes go into 6.4 and not 6.3 any more. There are very few reasons to stick to 6.3 once the next dot release is out. The same is actually true for windows. Once a service pack is out, you won'

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Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread mark
On 05/09/13 20:56, Rock wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2013 16:51:48 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: > >> Are you sure that the FAT was mangled, and not just the MBR? > > How can I tell? > > All I know is the following: > a) The WinXP PC had a virus or something making it slow > b) So I decide

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Friday 10 May 2013, mark wrote: > I'm afraid that's where you lost it - I'd strongly suspect that the > virus has some kind of self-protection to avoid being studied, and > that's when it hit the USB drive. I think that the user was too quick to assume that the computer "had a virus or somet

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Eero Volotinen
http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/ might help.. 2013/5/10 Yves Bellefeuille > On Friday 10 May 2013, mark wrote: > > > I'm afraid that's where you lost it - I'd strongly suspect that the > > virus has some kind of self-protection to avoid being studied, and > > that's when it hit the USB drive. >

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread zGreenfelder
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >It sounds very much like the user had the reaction many inexperienced >users have: "The computer doesn't do what I think it should be doing: it >must be a virus!" I used to have that problem all the time. turns out I was just running wi

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Bry8 Star
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 You may try these out: some are able to scan entire surface and able to recover file, some can give you back entire FAT as well, but trial version will be limited with certain files only, or files-only, etc: Power Data Recovery. Paragon Hard Disk Ma

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 07:03:18AM -0700, Bry8 Star wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > You may try these out: > some are able to scan entire surface and able to recover file, some > can give you back entire FAT as well, but trial version will be > limited with certain f

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:53:30 -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > Is it already "putting" your files somewhere? If so it's almost > certainly too late to throw a linux recovery tool at it. Nothing, to my knowledge, is being written to the external NTFS USB hard drive. The files are being put on the C:

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
On Fri, 10 May 2013 08:32:35 -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > I think that the user was too quick to assume that the computer "had a > virus or something". If he thought it might have a virus, why didn't he > try an anti-virus program first? Good question. The Windows XP machine is an old Dell B

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6-6.3 -> no updates and security fixes?

2013-05-10 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/10/2013 02:56 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi All. > > I've found: > > This directory (and version of CentOS) is depreciated. For normal users, > you should use /6/ and not /6.3/ in your path. Please see this FAQ > concerning the CentOS release scheme: > > http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6-6.3 -> no updates and security fixes?

2013-05-10 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/10/2013 02:56 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi All. > > I've found: > > This directory (and version of CentOS) is depreciated. For normal users, > you should use /6/ and not /6.3/ in your path. Please see this FAQ > concerning the CentOS release scheme: > > http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfa

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread m . roth
Rock wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:53:30 -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > >> Is it already "putting" your files somewhere? If so it's almost >> certainly too late to throw a linux recovery tool at it. > > Nothing, to my knowledge, is being written to the external NTFS > USB hard drive. > > The files

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
On Fri, 10 May 2013 13:04:01 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: > I'd guess that whatever infected your system had a protection mechanism, > so that if you tried to backup the whole drive, it would mangle > something on the recipient drive, so that *it* couldn't be examined > easily. I u

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
On Fri, 10 May 2013 17:27:34 +, Rock wrote: > And, I did google for the solution for a corrupt disk and I did follow > Microsoft Support instructions. > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176646 > > Of course, in hindsight, I *should* have run a dd first ... but I had > not expected the chkdsk

[CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Digimer
Hi all. We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 servers. We've been asked by many to provide backup, which is something we don't want to do in house. So we started looking for backup companies to partner with. The problem is that the ones we've found who support RHEL won't suppo

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread m . roth
Digimer wrote: > Hi all. > >We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 servers. We've > been asked by many to provide backup, which is something we don't want > to do in house. So we started looking for backup companies to partner > with. The problem is that the ones we've found who su

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Eero Volotinen
Rsync.net ? 10.5.2013 21.47 "Digimer" kirjoitti: > Hi all. > >We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 servers. We've > been asked by many to provide backup, which is something we don't want > to do in house. So we started looking for backup companies to partner > with. The problem

[CentOS] cifs mount desktop icon

2013-05-10 Thread Emiliano Mariño
Hi, I am mounting a Windows share on /media/%(USER)/mountpoint via pam_mount and I would like to show the volume desktop icon for every user logged in. The thing is that it works only for the first user that gets logged, when another user logs in, the desktop icon is missing, but the share mount

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Digimer
Oh, these guys look exactly like what I need. I've put a call into them and am waiting for a call back. Thank you! On 05/10/2013 03:02 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Rsync.net ? > 10.5.2013 21.47 "Digimer" kirjoitti: > >> Hi all. >> >> We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 server

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Fri, 10 May 2013 14:46:23 -0400 schrieb Digimer : > Hi all. > >We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 servers. We've > been asked by many to provide backup, which is something we don't > want to do in house. So we started looking for backup companies to > partner with. The pr

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Digimer
On 05/10/2013 02:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 10.05.2013 20:46, schrieb Digimer: >> We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 servers. We've >> been asked by many to provide backup, which is something we don't want >> to do in house. So we started looking for backup companies to p

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Digimer
On 05/10/2013 02:55 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Digimer wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 servers. We've >> been asked by many to provide backup, which is something we don't want >> to do in house. So we started looking for backup companies to partner

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Digimer wrote: >> > I know that it's binary compatible and that the software that works for > RHEL will work for CentOS. What I mean by "supported" is a company who > will see the host OS is CentOS and not throw up their hands and say > "sorry, not supported!". > >

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Digimer
On 05/10/2013 04:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Digimer wrote: >>> >> I know that it's binary compatible and that the software that works for >> RHEL will work for CentOS. What I mean by "supported" is a company who >> will see the host OS is CentOS and not throw up

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Digimer
On 05/10/2013 05:46 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 10.05.2013 23:41, schrieb Digimer: >> Because CentOS works just fine for them. They've used it going back to >> CentOS 4 days without issue. Suggesting they rebuild long-in-production >> servers for the sake of a backup company is not going to f

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 10.05.2013 um 23:49 schrieb Digimer : > On 05/10/2013 05:46 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 10.05.2013 23:41, schrieb Digimer: >>> Because CentOS works just fine for them. They've used it going back to >>> CentOS 4 days without issue. Suggesting they rebuild long-in-production >>> servers for

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
> For the record, this is the Microsoft Support KB I had followed: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176646 Just by way of update, it's currently at 95,000 of about 100,000 files; so I would expect the Recuva file recovery to complete by tomorrow morning (day 3): http://www5.picturepush.com/pho

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:25 AM, wrote: > > I once started a support call with Sun/Oracle *shudder*, and > the engineer got all huffy, they didn't support CentOS (it was a hardware > problem), and he obviously didn't know anything about it. I escalated, and > got another engineer (and the story

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a CentOS-friendly online backup company

2013-05-10 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Digimer wrote: > >So does anyone know of an online backup company that _will_ support > CentOS (and Windows)? > >Any pointers will be much appreciated! > Not an online but an in-house solution. Symantec Netbackup (or whatever it is called) apparently su