Update: Data recovery emergency...

[Tim Writer]

Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Wednesday 07 January 2004 12:13, Jason Shein wrote:
> > came across this article today
> >
> > System recovery with Knoppix
> > What to do when good disks go bad
> 
> Knoppix is an awesome way to recover from failed disks.  Especially handy if 
> your backups are on an amanda server.  Amanda utilities so recovery is 
> boot->partition->make filesystems/raid/lvm/etc->extract backup->install 
> bootloader->reboot->go home.

And with mdadm and vgscan (both of which are included), it can recover LVM
and RAID volumes directly from the disk content, i.e. without needing any
auxiliary info such as /etc/raidtab.

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