[H-GEN] Best FS for use with multiple Unix variants

[Arjen Lentz]

Hi Hilton

----- "QuarkAV.com - Hilton Travis" <hilton at quarkav.com> wrote:
> Now I also go back and check, yes, that was the issue.  The guy 
> reformatted the drive (in the NSLU2, therefore reformatted the FS as 
> EXT3) and we were unable, even after posting to this list, to find any
> way to recover data without sending it to CBL and paying over $2000. 
> 
> Was this an NTFS or FAT32 volume, I could have recovered 100% of the 
> files for under $250.

The real problem there is lack of backup of relevant files, I'd say.

Even if a filesystem can be recovered, the amount of time and/or effort involved is often disproportionate. I have clients for whom anything other than near-live copies would be fatal, so there a backup is nice to have but not even relevant for production. All things fail, so just taking that into account really helps.


Cheers,
Arjen.
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