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On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: |
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> > 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? |
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> > What tools do I need? |
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> In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from |
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> another box. As a last resort you could boot a live CD chroot and fix |
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> things. |
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How do I boot without x? (I've got a feeling I should know this) I am using |
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grub. |
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> > 2. I have an rsynced backup on an external usb harddrive, but unless I |
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> > can loggin how can I restore the files from the backup? |
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> By booting from a live CD. |
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I tried that but my cd didn't have rsync on it Its 2005.1 created Sept 05 |
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