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#1 2008-09-27 23:56:30

tony5429
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[SOLVED] How to Restore Folders/Files from a Hard Drive

I broke my system today; it won't boot into any run level. Rather than try to fix it, I'd like to just pull off the 4 or 5 MB of files that are on the hard drive. The partition they are in was formatted XFS. I have the 2008.06 ArchLive CD - is it possible to access files from the hard drive after booting with an ArchLive CD? If so, I could just scp them to an external server. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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#2 2008-09-28 03:13:52

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Restore Folders/Files from a Hard Drive

Does anyone have any ideas? The files are actually really important...

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#3 2008-09-28 03:37:15

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Restore Folders/Files from a Hard Drive

You should be able to mount the partition once you've loaded up the live CD. Just figure out which one it is by using

fdisk -l

then mount it to /mnt or wherever you want it.

As for moving/saving them, I'm not entirely sure how to get them onto an external server. You might have to mount another partition in order to install any apps that you need to connect to an external server, but wait for someone who really knows to answer before you try it. If you're only talking about 4 or 5 MB, I would just mount a USB stick and dump them on there.

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#4 2008-09-28 04:49:57

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Restore Folders/Files from a Hard Drive

Thank you so much! I was able to mount both the hard drive partition and my usb device and copy over the folders I needed. Yeah, although ssh was on the archlive CD I would have had to configure IP to use it. Thanks again!

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#5 2008-09-28 12:29:36

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Re: [SOLVED] How to Restore Folders/Files from a Hard Drive

tony5429 wrote:

The files are actually really important...

You might want to have a look here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backup_programs

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