NewsForge: Bare-Metal Server Restore Using tar

"When my production Web server, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), began generating filesystem errors, I found my backup system put to the ultimate test. My bare-metal restore saved the day for me. Here's how you can put a similar scheme to work.

"On the surface, my Web server seemed to be running fine, serving up Web pages normally. While performing some routine maintenance, I happened to run an ls command in the root directory, and it returned and empty listing--no directories or files. Nothing. The ls command showed files in the /boot directory, so it appeared there was some file system damage..."

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