From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Cc: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: data destruction classics (was: Re: Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0?)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:13:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070215021345.GB29732@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D3B4E7.8050408@fs.ei.tum.de>
Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-15 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 16:12 Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0? Bill Lear
2007-02-14 17:07 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-14 17:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-14 17:20 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-14 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-14 20:49 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-14 20:58 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-14 21:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-14 21:40 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-14 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-14 21:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-14 22:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-14 22:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-14 22:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-15 0:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-15 0:54 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-02-15 1:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-14 22:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-14 22:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-14 22:41 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-15 1:18 ` OT: data destruction classics (was: Re: Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0?) Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-15 2:13 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-02-15 2:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-15 10:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-15 13:13 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-02-15 11:58 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-15 9:13 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-15 14:30 ` Mark Wooding
2007-02-14 23:24 ` Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0? Linus Torvalds
2007-02-14 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-15 8:40 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-02-14 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-14 21:18 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-14 21:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-14 21:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-14 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-14 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-14 21:13 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-14 21:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-11-05 13:33 OT: data destruction classics (was: Re: Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0?) LON CHAIHONG
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