[ale] File recovery

[Michael H. Warfield]

<Non-helpful commentary>

On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 14:12 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Haven't had to do this in a while so I'm looking for ideas.
> 
> VMware ESX host rebooted. The bios was set to pxeboot. The pxeboot
> process it picked up installed Fedora19 over the ESX.

/me picks jaw up off the floor.  Oh wow.  Oh ouch.  (Also trying to
stifle a laugh).

I assume you immediately beat that bootp/tftp server into little bit
nuggets for defaulting to a destructive / non-interactive configuration?

> sigh
> 
> Looking for recommendations for tool chains for VM recovery. I'm not
> expecting much success but trying to balance reconstruct time vs
> recovery time.

No sure I could help with that one.  An install over the disk image is
going to leave a mess...

Regards,
Mike
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