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Re: [LUG] tracking a powerdown

 

On 24/04/2020 10:10, Tom via list wrote:
> Last night my laptop stopped dead - blank screen no response to
> anything. I powered it off and back on again and set a full backup
> running. This morning I started checking the logs but no indication of
> what happened. Nothing!
> 
> Any clues as to how and try and track this down.
> 
> Tom te tom te tom
> 
> 
I'm guessing that your backup logs overwrote your "real" logs and wiped
the evidence of what happened.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and you could've used a rescue disk/USB
and saved the logs before you ran the backup - I'm not sure what you
could do now...
TBF I wouldn't have thought of doing that at the time either :)

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