HI all
Well at the moment I an recovering from a flooding situation.
I had my office flooded to 2.5ft of water. Luckily the Backup server
(backup pc) was above the water line and also my hard drive for my
backup server. Unfortunately my machines that were on the ground, were
not so lucky. I have spent one or two days pouring water out of
machines, not a pleasant sight!!!!

I have a new hard drive as I am worried about the hard drive that was
already in the system, being exposed to the damp/water etc.

So I want to try and get the data off it, and reconnect it the server.
The Ideal situation would be a rsync copy of the server at a different
location (anyone have this done ?).

I had it set up as a LVM so /lib/backuppc/<backups>

What I would like to know, or if any on had any experience of:
Making a mirror or the backup disk:
Should I do a dd?
or would a copy be sufficient ?
or will I have to worry about hard links that need to be kept ?


Or should I just bite the bullet and put in a rsync server and take my
chances with the disk?
Any advice would be greatly received.

Thanks in advance
Pat

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