Data recovery emergency on a downed server... Help please!!

[Madison Kelly]

That would seem to be the case. However, I have used -many- of these
Seagates and I have never seen one suddenly pooch before. I am debating
running the Seagate test on it or decide to just recommend having it sent
to a data recovery house...

I know that backups of the superblock are made, do you know by chance how
to locate them and/or how to tell the OS to use one for mounting? Also, at
least two partitions on the drive have gone bad...

Madison

> Either the drive had a hardware OR the superblock is toast.  It doesnt
> seem
> likely to be both.
>>From your description, it appears that the drive is functioning,  but the
> superblock is gone. Is that correct?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Madison Kelly" <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
> To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:23 AM
> Subject: [TLUG]: Data recovery emergency on a downed server... Help
> please!!
>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>   Well, the fact that I am posting this after 12:00am Sunday night (and
>> on
>> my birthday, to-boot!) should indicate just how dire the situation is...
>> I have had a drive failure on a server and I can no longer mount the
>> data partition on the hard drive (/dev/hda5 [ext3 under RH7.3]) because
>> the replacement server (Fedora Core 1) claims that the drive's
>> superblock is toast.
>>
>>   Now, before anyone rips me a new one, I -DO- have a tape drive but
>> that,
>> too, has rather depressingly failed. When I try to recover the files
>> from the IDE Travan 8GB drive it successdully recovers about 50 files
>> and then fails with this...
>>
>>  -= Begin Error =-
>> [root-9CO/sRhIDOA at public.gmane.org tape]# tar zxvf /dev/ht0
>> .
>> [bunch-of-files]
>> .
>> home/OldC/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec
>> Shared/VirusDefs/19970902.001/navex15.exp
>> home/OldC/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec
>> Shared/VirusDefs/19970902.001/navex15.sys
>> home/OldC/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec
>> Shared/VirusDefs/19970902.001/NAVEX15.VXD
>>
>> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
>> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
>> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> [root-9CO/sRhIDOA at public.gmane.org tape]#
>>  -= End Error =-
>>
>> This is true on three of the tapes I have tried to recover from. The
>> data
>> was backed up via this simple script:
>>
>>  -= Begin Script =-
>> mt -f /dev/ht0 erase
>> mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
>> tar zcvf /dev/ht0 /home/*
>>  -= End Script =-
>>
>> I have been Googling for a while now with no success. If anyone has any
>> clues, by all means -please- share them... Also, if anyone here can
>> recommend (as a fall back) a data recovery house that won't balk at an
>> ext3 partition, please forward contact info.
>>
>> Thanks everyone (again!!!)
>>
>> The Ever-Stumbling Madison
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