This morning the core server for my home network would not boot.  The
filesystem on the var partition was corrupt and even fsck couldn't fix
it -- something about some inodes belonging to the wrong FS group.

This evening I used lvm to create a new volume for var, added enough
directories to get booted and used amanda to restore the partition from
last nights's backup.  I use an external USB drive for backups here at
home so the whole process took about half an hour.   In my pre-amanda
days, this would have meant reinstalling the OS then recreating the lost
configurations.

I now return to lurking and learning from those who know more than me.

-- 
Stephen Carville -- polluting the ranks of skeptics since 1995.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has
never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are
arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
             -- H. L. Mencken