[TriLUG] system trashed - trying to recover

[Greg]

Today a bad thing happened. One of my production machines (my small mail
sever) went belly-up.  I have the box at home now attempting to do a
restore.  I am having some problems.

1. I popped in my RH 7.1 CD and booted 'linux rescue'
2. my system is now mounted under /mnt/sysimage
3. I got a IP address on eth0 by issuing 'pump -i eth0' - good
4. I have tried to FTP - this failes.  - bad
5. I have tried to NFS mount a volume from my server - bad
6. I tried a sftp which failed - bad

When I attempt to FTP to my server I am prompted for a username, which I
enter then it says "enter password" but never gets to a prompt.  It
hangs for a second or two then just comes back with 'failed'.

I have created a /mnt/sysimage/tmp/backup directory.  In this directory
I have tarred /mnt/sysimage/home and /mnt/sysimage/var/spool/mail.  I
have also copied /mnt/sysimage/etc/passwd (and shadow).

Does anyone have ANY idea on how to get this data off the harddrive?  I
would very much like to get this data backed up before I re-install the
system and apply the updates.

Also - what other files would you backup?  This machine is essentially a
mail server - no http, samba, etc.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.