Need Help - Drive wiped - Need to restore remote backups
We had what was supposed to be a RAID10 server but a tech discovered that it was RAID0 - they then offered to try and switch it - since we were having harddrive problems.
Anyways - long story short the switch wiped all data off the drive.
I've had an rsync setup to run every night to a remote location thats backed up the entire hard drive.
However I dont know how to get the files from the remote location to the server - without it taking a week to do it.
I've of course started scp - that was last night - about 10 hours ago - and only about 80 accounts have moved from the home directory - 80 out of 750 accounts.
Therefore I'm trying to figure out how to mount the remote drive so that we can do some thing to get the files restored faster? Maybe a reverse rsync? I don't know. I'm in over my head and the NOC just wants to keep telling me to setup backups in WHM.
Anyways. Any ideas? According to the remote location they've enabled samba for me?
Here's what he says.
"
mount -t smbfs -o
username=user //ipaddress/folder /restore
This assumes you have created a directory called /restore to use as a mount point.
"
unfortunately it gives me an error when I try to do this..the NOC says that its because -t smbfs means windows? but wont give me info on how to change the line to mean linux.
Anyways - does anyone at all know how this would be done best?
Thanks very much.
