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« on: October 25, 2006, 02:27:21 am »
Today, I deleted /usr/bin/ as well as a large portion of /usr/share/ by sudo tar tzf /mnt/card/data.tar.gz|sudo rm -r. In retrospect, I obviously shouldn't have done that. I'm quite stressed and annoyed that I have no recent backups, so I was hoping that there was some way to recover files from my flash. I'm running pdaXrom beta3 on a C3100 with the full-size root partition.

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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2006, 06:47:07 pm »
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Today, I deleted /usr/bin/ as well as a large portion of /usr/share/ by sudo tar tzf /mnt/card/data.tar.gz|sudo rm -r. In retrospect, I obviously shouldn't have done that. I'm quite stressed and annoyed that I have no recent backups, so I was hoping that there was some way to recover files from my flash. I'm running pdaXrom beta3 on a C3100 with the full-size root partition.
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2006, 02:01:08 am »
I decided to reinstall everything, so never mind.

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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2006, 09:18:51 am »
Thats the spirit!  It will give you more practice and speed up your rebuild skills... :-)

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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2006, 09:58:38 am »
When configuring a new system, I regularly create NAND backups so if enything is deleted by accident or destroyed, I can restore the last NAND backup and only have to repeat the last few of the steps I did so far.

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« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2006, 05:43:41 am »
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When configuring a new system, I regularly create NAND backups so if enything is deleted by accident or destroyed, I can restore the last NAND backup and only have to repeat the last few of the steps I did so far.

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but remember that NAND backups won't do you any good if you have OZ on a C3x00 or pdaXrom beta4 or later.

apart from that NAND backups are a great way of restoring your system once you screw up
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