Re: Recovering a Crashed Fedora

2015-01-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.01.2015, Gary Stainburn wrote: > After running the tar zcvf ... > run the command tar ztvf . > to test it again. And 1 day later you get a bad sector containing a part of your compressed archive, and your whole backup is gone (and according to Murphy's law, your harddisk cont

Re: Recovering a Crashed Fedora

2015-01-29 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 29 January 2015 06:34:06 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 29.01.2015, Mickey wrote: > > But what I'm concerned about is that Root will change the owner of the > > Tar files. after i do the new install it will have the same user on the > > crashed drive. > > Never ever compress backup data which

Re: Recovering a Crashed Fedora

2015-01-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.01.2015, Mickey wrote: > But what I'm concerned about is that Root will change the owner of the Tar > files. after i do the new install it will have the same user on the crashed > drive. Never ever compress backup data which contains valuable data. One single bit flip will render your who

Re: Recovering a Crashed Fedora

2015-01-28 Thread jd1008
On 01/28/2015 08:53 PM, Mickey wrote: I have a Fedora 15 hard drive that crashed and I want save the Users files. I have a Fedora 20 Live Cd on the computer and I can read the users home directory. I want to do a tar -cvf on the Users home directory and temporyly store it on my PC until I

Recovering a Crashed Fedora

2015-01-28 Thread Mickey
I have a Fedora 15 hard drive that crashed and I want save the Users files. I have a Fedora 20 Live Cd on the computer and I can read the users home directory. I want to do a tar -cvf on the Users home directory and temporyly store it on my PC until I do a complete install of fedora 20 on th