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Can memcache invoke a script to reload itself after startup on Ubuntu?
Since memcache stores everything in ram, it will lose its store after a node recovers from failure. Does memcache offer a hook to invoke a script after it starts up? We want that script to do ...
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How to mount parition in from a working driver in RAID1
One of hard drives in array is dead, I'm unsure if it's raid0 or raid1, what I'm trying to achieve is mount the working drive and make a backup of what's left.
If I mount /dev/md127 then I can see ...
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Hard drive errors: probably 2 bad sectors and nothing is working
All started with bsod from WindowsXP: unmountable boot volume.
Then I tried ubuntu and Palimpsest. SMART status was OK (2 bad sectors), but all test failed on "reading system" (I don't know if I ...
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Windows Azure Blob Storage Data Migration
I would like to back up the files I currently have in Azure Blob Storage and move them elsewhere. The problem is that pulling them one by one would take me several weeks, even within the same ...
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PostgreSQL 8.1 out of space and stopped, data directory is empty
I used PostgreSQL 8.1 on Gentoo/Linux 2.6.14r5. My db server's disk space looks like below:
db postgresql # df -l
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 ...
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How to recover data from an external drive with messed up partitions [closed]
I have an external Buffalo 1TB drive (HD-HX1.0TU3) that contains some data I want to recover.
Here's what happened - I decided to take the external drive apart and put the hard disk into a desktop ...
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Redis - Logging with AOF since last RDB snapshot
I'm new to Redis, so this may be an obvious question. I understand Redis provides two persistence options, RDB which saves a snapshot of the entire data on disk, and AOF, which saves every single ...
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activeCollab on LAMP, data-recovery, attempted to reinstate DB, failing
We had a disk fail on our server (very modern LAMP, PHP 5.3.3) last week. We brought back our sites and pur project management site/software, "activeCollab"—
—but the DB is out of date by 6 weeks. ...
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How to recover data from a corrupted ext3 partition?
A server of mine had a drive failure of some sort which caused the OS (CentOS 5) to crash and stop working (it refuses to boot).
So we put another drive with a working OS and from there we try to ...
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Recovering emails from a dead exchange database
We recently had an outage on our DC - one disk out of a 4 disk raid array failed and it ran in degraded mode for about 3 weeks before we were able to replace the disk. By the last day before it got ...
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Solution to manage data server with multiple drives
I'm looking for some pointers on the best way to manage a Linux data server, with 20 hard drives and with new files always being added (around 30GB/day). Performance is not important, reliability is ...
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Intel ICH10R data recovery after re-adding old RAID 1 drives [closed]
I have two SAMSUNG HD502HJ hard drives which were originally running on a system (system A) with an onboard Intel ICH10R SATA controller in RAID 1 under Windows 7.
The drives were then removed from ...
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Large incremental backup sizes although minimal changes with cPanel tarballs
I am using Bacula and connecting to my cPanel server on a nightly basis at 2am to backup the tar.gz files that were generated the previous day at 6am by cPanel.
Note, cPanel is generating a full ...
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Vmfs vmware esxi data recovery
One of our engineers noticed a missing vmdk file. It resided on a vmfs partition.
I was wondering is there any software to recover the missing vmdk that anyone can recommend using? Have searched the ...
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How can I successfully mount an 8-bit SCSI drive on a modern computer?
I have a number of internal 8-bit SCSI-1 drives that I'd like to archive for historical purposes. These are all the old NeXT Cubes and NeXTStations (monochrome and color) that were used by id ...
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Corrupt XFS header
On my file server I ended up growing the RAID (5) and then I went ahead and deleted and remade the partition holding the XFS filesystem. I used Parted to do this.
After parted ran I tried to mount ...
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How to recover XFS file system with “superblock read failed”
I have a disk from a Buffalo LinkStation that has an XFS partition on it that I cannot mount.
Plugging the disk into an SATA->USB caddy on an Ubuntu box. I get the following:
$ sudo fdisk -l ...
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repair or recover corrupted inode information [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover ext3 files from hard disk with bad sector
I found out the inode information of the most important directory of my server was corrupted, and I couldn't access its ...
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recover corrupted directory from ext3 partition
It's my mounted directory that i want to restore folder ostani. it's containt many php, css, js and etc files. how can i access. I use dd_rhelper for create an image and try to fsck to repair it. but ...
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Recover ext3 files from hard disk with bad sector
I have a folder of about 5GB that suddenly disappeared. When I checked its hard disk, I found out it has bad sector for about 2-3MB on this folder. Maybe it is on the folder's pointer.
The partition ...
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Retrieving data after accidental LVM partitioning [closed]
I had a two NTFS partitions on a single drive, one with Windows installation and the other with personal data.
Being convinced that I have already made a backup of personal data, I proceeded with ...
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Would data recovery be possible after Acer hidden partition reinstall? [closed]
Someone did a re-installation of his Operating System of the C: drive using his computer's 'Acer hidden recovery partition' (the alt+f10 procedure). Then he chose 'do not back up personal data (this ...
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Recover deleted files on windows 2008 file server
We have recently been hit by a weird virus which made all files and folders a system files/folders and also it hid all files and folders par some weird ones it created including:
..exe
porn.exe
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How do you fix a software RAID1 partition with a bad superblock?
I have two identical 3 TB disks that were in a RAID1 array, where one disk crashed. I replaced the failed disk, but not after the RAID partitions got messed up.
I need to figure out how to restore ...
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URGENT: help recovering lost data
I have made a directory: sudo mkdir /ssd, the directory was supposed to be mounted to a raid array called md3. This was done by adding /dev/md3 /ssd auto defaults 0 0 to fstab. Then after a while ...
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Accident from tar -cvf, recover original file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to recover filed removed by rm in linux?
I'm using a RHEL6 server RAID10 with a ext4 fs, with a volumeGroup (lvm2) VolGroup00 created on a PV /dev/sda5 ...
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How To Recover A Partial LVM Logical Volume? [closed]
Update:
We can use ddrescue to dump what's left in the root LV and then use photorec or testdisk to recover from the dump.
Example: ddrescue -n /dev/mapper/VG-LV /path/to/the/dump ddrescue.log
See: ...
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where on disk is space allocated for new files inside LVM lv with ext4 file system?
I run a multi-disk server with LVM2. Several large disks serve as LVM2 physical volumes for one volume group, containing one logical volume formatted with ext4.
Nothing fancy, just your standard ...
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All servers flooded by salt water, is it possible to recover data from multi-platter drives?
All of my servers are currently flooded by salt water. Is it possible for each platter in a multi-platter drive to be separated, cleaned, imaged, and merged into a new virtual drive for data ...
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e2fsck extremely slow, although enough memory exists
I've got this external USB-Disk:
kaefert@blechmobil:~$ lsusb -s 2:3
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bc2:3320 Seagate RSS LLC
As can be seen in this dmesg output, there is some problem that prevents that ...
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Drive cloning dd or rsync/sync via KVM
I've got a crash and the system won't boot correctly. I am getting errors like:
ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
ata3.00: status: { UNC }
What would be the best way to save the main drive to make the ...
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ext4: error loading journal [closed]
I have an external hard drive with two partitions: A small FAT32 which is mostly empty and works fine and a large ext4 with tons of data, most of which isn't backed up.
The ext4 is visible, but can't ...
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Recovering data from a drive overwritten by Debian install [closed]
I got a panicked call for help from a mate who's been tinkering with a Raspberry Pi. Turns out it auto-updated his install of Raspbmc (RPi-build Debian with XBMC over the top, for non-RPi-fanatics) ...
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Testdisk won’t list files for an ext4 partition inside a LVM inside a LUKS partition
I have accidentally deleted a file that I want to recover. The partition is an ext4 partition inside an LVM partition that is encrypted with dm-crypt/LUKS.
The encrypted LUKS partition is: /dev/sda2
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Recovering/Rebuilding MySQL .FRM, .MY* files from IBDATA1
I recently had an incident in which several MySQL files were wiped out (mostly from WordPress, but also a few of MySQL’s own files). The IBDATA1 file is unaffected, but several .frm are gone as are a ...
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Recover file from NTFS after it was formatted twice [closed]
I'm running Linux Mint and have a 2TB drive that I formatted as NTFS. I copied ~120GB of files from another computer to the 2TB drive, removing the files from the other computer as I did so. When ...
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What do I need to download and how to I upgrade my vmware in order to get VDP?
EDIT: I leave the question as is. Apparently I missed the part that it was only announced, and was sure it's released, and I can't find it on my.vmware.com
VDP [vmware data protection] was recently ...
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How to recover data from a partially overwritten partition
By mistake, I configured a 900GB partition to be part of a 50GB raid. The sync is complete and my understanding is that only the first 50GB of the bigger partition is overwritten. How do I recover the ...
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Is there way to read sectors from SATA drive without ECC correction?
I know, there was such possibility like that in old ATA standards: "READ LONG" command produced LBA sector + ECC payload. sg_read_long supports in in linux, but the command is obsolete for quite a ...
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Get data from unbootable Linux server hard disk
Here is my situation:
After a sudden shutdown due to a power outage, the CentOS 5 server in my workplace will not boot.
My co-worker and I need to get an important file from the hard drive on this ...
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Recover data from SCSI hard disk
We've got an old server with SCSI hard disk. The server crashed last week and it isn't exactly known what hardware component is damaged. Since the server is due to be retired anyway we don't want to ...
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DFS 2003 on Storage Server with Huge Backlog: Recovery Options?
We currently have a 2003 DFS server that has a backlog of several gigabytes. And that's for just a single DFS share. It was not set up during this administration, we have simply been dealing with it's ...
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If my RAID card fails, how likely is it to corrupt the RAID?
My RAID card does not currently have a battery installed and its write mode is set to write-through. Data is rarely written to the RAID - large batches of data come in maybe every other week. Daily ...
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unable to recover data from failed hdd [closed]
my hdd failing (or maybe totally dead)
i've connected the hdd via USB but it doesn't appear in fdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total ...
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innodb recovery from .ibd files
My website has crashed a few days ago.
The hosting company says some innodb database crashed.
They sent a MySql data folder. I tried to restore the database, but phpmyadmin is only showing MyISAM ...
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Recovering from incorrect robocopy /MIR using NAS drives
Yes I know how stupid I've been and will severely chastise myself once this has been resolved.
Just to be clear, I've done a robocopy using the /mir switch and files not present in the source have ...
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Backup Exec - Differential Backups and Overwriting
I have a setup for a customer whereby a full backup is conducted on a Friday - then Monday through to Thur, differentials are carried out. Now, there is a single media set for these two jobs (I ...
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VERY peculiar permission masks, UIDs, GIDs and file names in Linux
I've just booted to find my software RAID 5 in Ubuntu not mounting. When trying to mount it gave me an NFS error (which was confusing). I ran fsck on /dev/md0 and my screen scrolled with fixes for ...
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LVM pv lost, testdisk says “No LVM or LVM2 structure”
Here is the story, a little complicated. long time ago, i installed the a Linux system with only one LVM volume group which had only one physical volume(let's call it disk A), then i got a raid ...
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e2fsck miserably aborts: memory allocation failed on 64 bit OS and scratch directory
After an unsuccessful Virtualbox VDI drive resize following the instructions here, the primary ext4 partition became of unknown type.
I fixed this with testdisk and then boot-repair, which made it be ...
