Re: OT: data destruction classics (was: Re: Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0?)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 15, 2007, 02:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20070215021345.GB29732@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <45D3B4E7.8050408@fs.ei.tum.de>

Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:

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> Bill Lear wrote:
> >I'm still muttering to myself that I could be that dumb...
> 
> Still better than trying to backup with
> 
> tar czvf data* destfile.tar.gz
> 
> automatic tape backup is a real helper then :)

or manual backup to "tape", where the tape device supplied was the only disk... SunOS 4 did not take too kindly to its kernel, swap space, root fs being overwritten...

Oddly enough, that system never booted again. Ever. We couldn't even get it to see external (CD-ROM) based media. SCSI controller also failed during the "tape" backup.

-- 
Shawn.