hey people,
im in BIG trouble
today i backed up data to an external hard drive.
first i copied /
then /home/user
then serarate folders like Documents,Downloads, …
i then re-installed the operating system, OpenSuse 11.1
when i wanted to put back the data, i saw that i only have folders,almost no files in the folders.
this is a nightmare.
the permissions are drwxr-xr-x and i tried logging in as user and as root. i’ can’t seem to change the permissions.could permissions have anything to do on this?
can i pull the data off the old -overwritten- system?
thanks for any help
linuxjohan
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:56:01 +0000, linuxjohan wrote:
> hey people,
> im in BIG trouble
> today i backed up data to an external hard drive. first i copied /
> then /home/user
> then serarate folders like Documents,Downloads, … i then re-installed
> the operating system, OpenSuse 11.1 when i wanted to put back the data,
> i saw that i only have folders,almost no files in the folders. this is a
> nightmare.
> the permissions are drwxr-xr-x and i tried logging in as user and as
> root. i’ can’t seem to change the permissions.could permissions have
> anything to do on this?
> can i pull the data off the old -overwritten- system? thanks for any
> help
> linuxjohan
Ouch. I’ve lost the only copy of data a few times and it’s no fun - I
feel for you.
Permissions could have had something to do with this - but the chances of
being able to recover data after you’ve reformatted the system are pretty
slim - and likely to be expensive (using a data recovery service).
It does strike me as odd that you can’t change permissions as root on the
backup drive under the new system. A couple of questions:
- What filesystem is on the device you backed up to?
- What tool did you use to back the data up?
- Before you reformatted the system, what type of verification did you
do on the backup copy of the data? - When you were reformatting the system, was the backup device
connected or disconnected?
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator
the system on the external hard drive is vfat
i user no back up tool, i copy-pasted
the verification is did was i checked the size on the original
file and the copied one, made shure it was equal
the backup tool was disconnected when i reformatted
thanks
johan
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:26:02 +0000, linuxjohan wrote:
> the system on the external hard drive is vfat
I don’t believe vfat supports the Linux permissions system - at least on
the CF2 card I just mounted, I can’t change permissions on files I own.
So permissions shouldn’t be a problem.
> i user no back up tool, i
> copy-pasted the verification is did was i checked the size on the
> original file and the copied one, made shure it was equal
So after you did your copy/paste (using Konqueror or Nautilus,
presumably?) you saw the files on the target drive?
> the backup
> tool was disconnected when i reformatted
That’s good to know - means that the upgrade didn’t try to overwrite the
filesystem during the upgrade.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator