[RLUG] Disappearing data

[Sebastian Smith]

Here's something we haven't discussed:

Assume your data is on the drive.  You MUST mount the effected drive read 
only so that you don't accidentally overwrite any deleted information. 
Every bit written is a bit lost.

What type of data were you storing primarily, and what do you want back?

- Sebastian


On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Dennis Bagley wrote:

> I sent this message to the rlug list (unfortunately several times)
> yesterday but got
> -0- feedback from anyone.  I'm still looking for answers because I do
> NOT want to accidentally
> repeat the problem.
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> So anyone have answers besides "42"?
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> Thanks again
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> Dennis
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> Came into my office this morning to discover data missing from my PC.
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> I am running Ubuntu 5.04
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> On Friday everything seemed to be intact and okay.  I have a dual drive
> system
> and decided to put the newest version of Ubuntu (5.10) on the second
> drive - it seemed to install just fine
> and I was also able to reboot into the older version.  I must admit that
> I did not run any programs
> other than email and the browser before leaving my office for the
> weekend.
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> HOWEVER, this morning when I tried to fire up VMWare - my virtual
> machine files were GONE.  The directory
> where the files should have been was there but the files were not.
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> Also missing:
>   all the bookmarks in my browser (Firefox)
>   all the pop3 mail on my system
>   all of the contacts I had in Evolution
>   all the "sent" mail
>   all special email folders I had created that contained data.
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> All my other primary files appear to be intact.  Ideas? Have I been
> hacked?  Did the the install
> screw something up?  If so, how?
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> (Fortunately I had a backup of the VM and the work data is stored on the
> server.  But I did not have a backup of
> the email and contact info and that kinda torques me.)
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> Thanks
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