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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Recovering Linux – 3
This is the third installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…” See the first post and second post for the preliminaries… My PC-A system’s hardware problem identified — disk drive sda failed — and backup resources verified… … Continue reading
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Tagged backups, Computers, CrashPlan, FOSS, howto: fix your PC, installing new hardware, Internet, Linux, Software, system rebuild, system recovery, Technology, upgrade
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Recovering Linux – 2
This is the second installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…” See the first post for foundation and background. So, we had two hard drive failures in two different Linux boxes, nearly simultaneously. … Continue reading
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Tagged backups, Computers, CrashPlan, FOSS, howto: fix your PC, installing new hardware, Internet, Linux, Software, system rebuild, system recovery, Technology, upgrade
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Recovering Linux – 1
A few weeks ago, we had near-simultaneous disk drive failures in two of our Linux PCs: both desktops are over four years old, and they’ve been spinning nearly 100% of that time. Seeing independent hard drives fail at roughly the … Continue reading
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Tagged backups, Computers, CrashPlan, DEC, FOSS, howto: fix your PC, Internet, Linux, system rebuild, system recovery, Technology, upgrade
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