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

[Madison Kelly]

Hi Anton,

    Thanks for the details. Does the destination partition need to be
exactly the same size? I am worried about trying to read the old drive...
Oh, and yes, I am sending from OE but that is because of a utility I needed
to use that spawned the default mail client which was, drum roll, a
server-hosted Eudora install. I had to set this up temporarily (and oh do I
mean temporarily!)

  Anywho, I will be back shortly. I have to go downtown to get the spare
drive...

Madison

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anton Markov" <anton-F0u+EriZ6ihBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Data recovery emergency on a downed server... Help
please!!


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> You should use:
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> # dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/dev/hdxx bs=512 conv=noerror,sync
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> where xx is the drive and partition (of same size)
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> That should copy the data exactly, and the "noerror" option will ignore
> physically corrupt areas (if any).  You should first create the new
> partition with /sbin/fdisk or /sbin/parted.
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> Here is one of the origional helpful documents I used when I had to
> recover data:
> <http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/recovering-ext2.html>
> Most of the article is about recovering the partition table, which you
> probably don't need to do (what does "/sbin/fdisk -l" say?), but the
> beginning is interesting.
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> If I ever find the other articles I've used (kick myself for forgetting
> to bookmark, I'll post the links.
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> ps. I don't know how to fix your tape drive problems.
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> Madison Kelly wrote:
> > I do have an identical spare drive but how can I make an exact copy of a
> > drive with a messed up file system and also, how can I be sure that the
> > copy is non-destructive? If I can do this, it'd be wonderful!
> >
> > Madison
> >
> > PS - I got a dd of th last tape that ran (finally) and it is about 3.6GB
> > (about right). I extracted it as a tar.gz (which should work) but it
fails
> > claiming to not be a gzip archive... Any ideas on that front by chance?
> >
> >
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