Hi Jack, Thanks for your response. My family member isn't so much looking for paths to legal recompense, nor how to fix the problem of backups and backup testing going forward, but more for tools and tips as to how to look at the existing box's filesystem now, forensically, using current Linux tools to peer into the old SCO Xenix box.
Anybody? ---p On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Jack Coats <j...@coats.org> wrote: > I have known people like that, and other than the courts there is no > recourse for the most part. > > When those folks are found, it is often to late (as in this case). > > It sounds like there were no backups? The old 3-2-1 of backups rule > still works (3 copies, on 2 different kinds of media, 1 copy offsite > [and I would add, 1 offline]). Also need to regularly 'test backups', > do a restore of at least a few files, and on occasion do a full system > restore somewhere else. >
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