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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Years ago I got sent to a site running an AT&T 3B2 400 and was told it was completely down so I’d need to reload it. I was also told
they had no backup tapes so we’d have to configure it like a new server. Never having actually installed a 3B2 400 I was not really sure how to do that but I took the AT&T manuals and some media along with me.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Clearly someone had removed many of the files (all of our proprietary software and the sites data) along with a few other things..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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our software lived) backup tapes buried in a box of tapes even though they’d told us they didn’t have such tapes. I quickly restore / and /usr then found the most recent data tape (which by then was a day old) and restored it.
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Within about an hour of arriving on site I had the system up and running. The site had to re-input the last day’s data by hand but
even at that they treated me like a hero because prior to my arrival our management had advised them they’d be down for at least 2-3 days for the rebuild then would have to re-input most of the data for the current year to get back to where they’d been.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">P.S. Whoever invented CTCCPIO for the 3B2 400 should have been shot. That wasn’t compatible with any other backup/restore utility.
Switching sites over to 3B2 600 or 1000 by doing a uucp over serial was NOT what you call “fast”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b><span style="font-weight:
bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Rich Faulkner<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:13 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] almost OT: Unix Recovery Legend</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Never seen that before. That's totally awesome! Thanks for sharing........<br>
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On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 09:53 -0500, Boris Borisov wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html">http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Ale mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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