On 15-Sep-2002 Richard Kettlewell wrote:
I had a motherboard go bad and mangle some of the filesystems (particularly /, and particularly /etc), and it took less than 24 hours to restore everything in that case. (If you count getting the motherboard replaced then several weeks, but I'm not convinced that's what you meant.)
I have complete, daily tape backups, but I have never yet managed to rebuild a system in under a week. The new system always has a slightly different configuration from the old one, and there is always something that I overlook when selecting what to restore. Then there are incompatible libraries etc.
Err. Just restore absolutely everything, surely?
Yes, but after a couple of years of oepration I never want quite the same config as I had before. anyway, the new disk is always so much bigger than the old one.