Hi everyone !
TL ; DR : I lost the whole content of my /home. I made my peace with losing the data that was there. Is there anyway to rebuild what is needed for the server without a complete reinstall ?
Last week was a learning week for me : I was building a true backup politic because I knew I didn’t do things properly, and I am beginning to really use my server. But guess what, the same week, I had a hard drive failure. I have my system on another hard drive that is fine, but my /home was on the dead one.
What is the best thing to do now ? Do I just mount a new drive and mount it to /home ? Isn’t there data used by some programs that were lost ?
P.S : Since then, I can’t seem to run fail2ban, that fails on startup and whenever I try to restart it. Even If I changed the default SSH port, the diagnostic page is warning me about a “suspiciously high number” of authentification failure. Should I just disconnect my server for now ?
Thank you for reading !