Zasran ... on a haloween ... but what's in between

Finally recovered zasran.com after the Big Disk Crash or 2008/10. After heroic effort (2 hours but took me 4+ months to gather strength!) the site is back up with all content restored (which is pretty much nothing).

Recovery wasn't even that hard, here's a brief howto (not 100% complete, just major steps):

• Install prerequisites (Ubuntu, probably would work for other debian based distros)
• apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
• apt-get install php5-mysql
• apt-get install php5-gd
• Mysql (just simple restore of /var/lib/mysql would probably work)
  • Install mysql server
  • Stop mysql server
  • Backup everything in /var/lib/mysql
  • Restore content of /var/lib/mysql from recorvered disk
  • Start mysql server
  • mysqldump -u root -p drupalDbName > /tmp/drupalDbName_dump.sql
  • Stop mysql serverRestore /var/lib/mysql from backup you just created
  • Create drupalDbName database
  • Create drupal user (see INSTALL.mysql.txt)
• Restore drupal directory (e.g. /opt/drupal-version)
• Restore apache config