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[Arjan Hulsebos]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:31:24 -0500, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote
> Well, up until now, I use the incredibly dumb and brute force method 

Out of curiosity, has anyone gone through the drill of restoring their data
from a backup? We once backed up a fileserver, swapped its disk for a fresh
one, and did a restore. The process seemed to be successful, only to find out
at the next boot that mere random patterns had been written to the disk. The
only way to get a usable disk again was a low level format....

Not to scare you in any way, but if you're _not_ using Carl's brute force
method, do go through the drill. It's worth it.

Gr,

Arjan H

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