Re: [WBEL-users] steps to help recover data from a crashed system? (boot drive crashed, need to get data from data drive)
"Jeff O'Brien" <[email protected]>
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Dale, I actually just had an exactly similar failure. I had a mail/web/ftp server, 2 drives with the /var /pub dirs on the only accessible drive. Luckily I was in the process of testing and upgrading when the primary drive died, so I had a few config files( passwd/shadow/group/aliases). with the knoppix boot disk you should see if you can access you're broken drive at all, if not recovering the /var partition of the good drive will work. I'd take note of the file permissions for areas of that directory branch before it gets trashed. ls -al > dir-perms.log or something. I have a question about your parity error. What is it coming from? a scsi controller, bios? It might be memory, a memtest86+ boot disk might be helpful as well. Dale's Lists wrote: > Hello Scott, > > ----- Original Message Follows ----- > From: Scott Silva <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] steps to help recover data from a > crashed system? (boot drive crashed, need to get data from > data drive) > Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:34:31 -0800 > > >> Dale Lists spake the following on 2/12/2006 1:52 PM: >> >>> Whitebox 3 >>> >>> >>> > > [snip] > > >>> Thanks for any help/suggestions. >>> >>> Dale >>> >> Is this a raid array? Or just 2 drives? >> It makes a difference on what you might recover, and how >> easy it will be (or difficult). >> > > Currently the setup is just 2 drives. The drive I believe > that is hosed is the boot drive, the second drive is the > /var volume which contains my websites and mail spools. > > So I am hoping I will be able to get the data from the /var > volume. > > Dale > _______________________________________________ > Whitebox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users > -- Jeff O'Brien Network Technician/ Manufacturing Net Technologies / Signull Technologies 1-866-NTI-LINUX / 1-888-Signull [email protected]