[Gllug] 'lost' partition -- can anyone help?

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Wed May 18 23:19:15 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 17:53 +0100, Chris Hutchison wrote:

> > By what mechanism did you back it up? How did you check it was there?
> 
> I backed up as I normally would on Win or Mac: dragged folders and 
> files to the new disk.  Then simply looked through the directory 
> structure to see that all had been copied across.
> 
Big pat on the back for doing a backup.
But next time give us a shout and we can help you do it via the command
line.
The command line is your friend.

Seriously, at the level of backing up/replicating data, moving disks
around using command line utilities is much easier.


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