1Star is the best program for automatically recovering 2from system crashes. 3 4Consider the case where you have a corrupted filesystem and 5no actual backup. It can be repaired with only few manual 6actions by using star. Simply follow the following steps: 7 8 91) Do a fsck -y to repair the filesystem. 10 Many files will be lost but you may have luck 11 and some/all recent files remain intact. 12 132) Run star -xp from the most recent backup you have. 14 This will only extract all files that have been 15 deleted on the fsck -y run. 16 173) Rewind the tape and run: 18 star -diff -c diffopts=!times 19 to check for file corruptions that have not been 20 detected by the fsck -y run. 21 224) Do a full backup of the new system to prevent further 23 data loss. 24 25 26 27