[CentOS] data recovery

Keith Roberts keith at karsites.net
Fri Sep 23 19:03:24 UTC 2011


On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] data recovery
> 
> Keith Roberts wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote:
>> *snip*
>>
>>> No. This is a production server and nobody logs in. Very
>>> very restricted.
>>
>> Have you checked all your logs? What ports are open?
>> What CLI tools to format a HDD do you have on the server?
> <snip>
> And then there's the other question: who has *access*, physically, to the
> server? Staff? Have any staff recently been let go? Cleaning people?

Sounds like somebody may have stuck a Linux installation DVD 
into the drive, and hit Ctrl-Alt-Del ?

Could something like this happen by accident - ie woops I 
hit the wrong machine?

Keith

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