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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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Accidentally formatted ubuntu partition in NTFS. Recover? [migrated]
I accidentally formatted ubuntu partition in windows 7 (quick format). Is there any way to recover the partition and data?
Thanks.
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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 ...
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Hosting server's harddisk crashed [closed]
My hosting provider has told me that the server harddisk that I am currently using is crashed and they failed to recover most of the data and they only managed to recover some files or folder from the ...
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Recover data from failed volume group disk
I have a tale of woe to tell. I had (notice the past tense) a LVM VolumeGroup comprised of two physical volumes that failed due to the accidental deletion of one of those volumes. I am now trying to ...
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Recover NTFS data from a ZFS pool that was exposed as an iSCSI target
This was me being stupid and the data is by no means critical and is now a learning experience first, time saver second.
I set up a 100GB iSCSI target via the bare bone instructions in napp-it. It's ...
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VMWare VMs to Data Domain storage via EMC Networker backup: Do I need a storage node?
I've got several VMs (Windows Server 2003-2008 R2, application servers, Exchange, SQL, small file servers) residing on ESXi 4.1 hosts. We recently purchased a Data Domain system allowing us to backup ...
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Can you recover a mysql database completely from ibdata1, log and frm files?
Okay, so bouncing off my other question this morning, we had one of our team members run "sudo chmod 775 /" by accident. It brought down the entire site..
Once I was able to get in, nginx came up ...
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How to perform repair operations on ddrescued image?
How can I perform Testdisk or fsck on HDD image file created by ddrescue? Can I mount it and then will it be writable drive? First thing I would like to try is to recover superblock on image.
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Scan ext4 partition without mounting it
My Ubuntu HDD failed today(hardware). I can't mount it, but there are some files which I need to recover before I get manufacturer replacement. Is there any software which will let me scan device ...
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recovering data from raid1 component disk
Need to recover data from raid1 component disk using ubuntu live usb disk. The existing software raid was broken. After many attempts, I removed degraded raid setup from BIOS but ubuntu live could not ...
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Recover a deleted partition by mistake (FAT32)
I deleted by mistake a FAT32 (I think it was fat32) partition in a external drive, searching I got through this post: ...
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Files disappeared from server, old ones shown instead
Recently I ran into a very strange phenomenon with one of the servers I manage used to serve samba shares over the local network. It was running Ubuntu Server 8.04 and I decided to upgrade the ...
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recovering a deleted file from a VM snapshot?
Our mysql ibdata1 file was deleted earlier today. This wasn't noticed until mysqld was restarted and there was no data in the tables. The machine is a CentOs VM in Xenserver. At this point a ...
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Join large overlapping files
I am trying to recover a (MySQL) database from a crashed disk. There are a number of recent dumps, which are corrupted bz2 files. Since the database does not change often, the dumps should be nearly ...
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Recover RAID 5 data after created new array instead of re-using
Folks please help - I am a newb with a major headache at hand (perfect storm situation).
I have a 3 1tb hdd on my ubuntu 11.04 configured as software raid 5. The data had been copied weekly onto ...
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How to repair mysql database
I have a database server(Fedora 14) which mysql is running as the database server. Recently that server broke down and I was only able to get the database directory from the server.
I have tried to ...
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Corrupt files' contents, while FS is OK
Looks like my USB HDD is old and corrupted:
rsync: read errors mapping "path/to/file.jpg": Input/output error (5)
Syslog:
kernel: [58927.940676] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
kernel: ...
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How can I mount a VXFS file system under linux or windows?
Old unix server crashed and now will not boot up, the drives are still accessible though. I need to move the data from that server to a Red Hat server. I was going to use a boot cd to copy the data to ...
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recovering deleted files on Centos ( Software Raid)
I had a server, 2 mirror hard drives ( software raid) CentOS5.
Some one access to my server and delete many files on server.
I tested the hard by testdisk but it just find the folders and not it's ...
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Free data recovery tools vs a data recovery company? [closed]
Consider a simple data recovery scenario where there is data that needs to be recovered from a disk that isn't damaged, i.e. the disk was formated, and possibly some data overwritten (vs water, burn, ...
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I accidently removed init.d directory! What can I do to recover it?
This is kind of scary! I removed /etc/init.d directory! How can I recover this directory?
I know that if I restart my computer now I won't see my linux again!
Please advice!
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mdadm RAID-5 recovery
I am encountering some problems with my RAID-5 array using mdadm on Debian.
First of all, I lost a drive (completely, it is no more recognized even in BIOS), then I replaced it with a new one, ...
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Does tarring up small files into one big tar file before writing them to tape increase the level of data loss when an error occurs?
I've been looking at our backups recently and noticed that the tape throughput is a lot lower when writing lots of small files, so was thinking of tarring those small files up into one big tar file ...
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb on CentOS 6.0
Some how my partition on /dev/sdb has gotten all buggered up. This hard drive contains a lot of data that I need to recover and haven't been able to backup yet. WHen I attempt to mount it:
#mount -t ...
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Any way to recover ext4 filesystems from a deleted LVM logical volume?
The other day I had a proper brain fart moment while expanding a disk on a Linux guest under Vmware. I stretched the Vmware disk file to the desired size and then I did what I usually do on Linux ...
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copy a MySQL table which has data in ibdata file
I have a database in MySQL with several tables. Some of the tables only have .frm files. Some have .frm .mdy .mdi I believe data for the .frm tables is in the ibdata file.
There is a lot of data in ...
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How can I recover files from a disk with crc errors?
Details:
Windows 7 32-bit
2.5" laptop disk with two partitions (A & B).
When mounted via USB, files on partition B can be accessed fine.
Partition A was working intermittently, but is no longer ...
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Hacked raid 5 on an enterprised system [closed]
Here is my problem (big problem). I have a site that is using a Dell s310 with perc3. The raid is a 5 mirrored. It was hacked and used as a email server. Passwords were changed and now it will not ...
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innodb crash, empty FRM files, but apparently intact ibdata
I've a database about which I know little, but I do have a structure-only dump of an identically-structured database.
It's mostly innodb tables, and the ib_logfile files seem intact (other innodb ...
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Help, ive just corrupted my ext4 partition
After troubleshooting problems with my mdadm config and kernel settings for about a week now i got careless and left my data drives plugged in after a successful boot test.
i was attempting to change ...
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How can I re-assemble (or recover data from) a mdadm RAID5 array?
I'm trying to recover whatever data I can from a RAID5 array of a failed NAS.
The disks were physically moved to another server that so they could be imaged,
but Knoppix "helpfully" detected and ...
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How to recover data from failed Intel Matrix Storage Console rebuild process?
I have a server with 3 hard drives:
one System Drive and two drives in RAID1 for data.
Raid1 is done via Intel Storage Matrix software. Today Intel Storage Matrix said that array is degraded and must ...
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Rescue as much data as possible from damaged tape
We have some data on very old DDS (1,2 and 3) DAT tapes.
I tried reading them with:
dd if=/dev/st0 of=file bs=32k
but get many partial blocks and sometimes IO errors.
Have also tried with:
dd ...
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ZFS on FreeBSD: recovery from data corruption
I have several TBs of very valuable personal data in a zpool which I can not access due to data corruption. The pool was originally set up back in 2009 or so on a FreeBSD 7.2 system running inside a ...
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volume group disappeared after xfs_check run
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I have a volume group consisting of 5 RAID1 devices grouped together into a lvm and formatted with xfs. The 5th RAID device lost its RAID config (cat /proc/mdstat does not show anything). The ...
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Automatic off-site backup
I'm planning to launch a file host fairly soon.
I have a 12TB software RAID array in my 1U server unit, and another 12TB software RAID array at a private location. Users will be uploading (and ...
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Ext4 superblock corrupted after successful(?) mdadm grow and resize2fs
Some system details
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, 16GB DDR3 1600 running 11.04 natty, 2.6.38-8-server
Raid in question consists of 5 SATA drives; 4 Samsung, 1 Western Digital; 500 GB each
Drives are ...
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Data lost by VirtualBox [closed]
An Ubuntu LTS 10.04 vdi I was running crashed, and I'm unable to boot from it. I get stuck in initramfs.
I'm able to mount the image as a secondary device on a working Ubuntu LTS 10.04 image, after ...
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Stuck in initramfs, need to recover data
I'm running Ubuntu LTS 10.4 on Virtualbox. Out of nowhere, I'm unable to boot into my VM and I get stuck in initramfs.
I have another Ubuntu VM that I can mount the virtual HD to. I just want to ...
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Recovering Accidentally Destroyed LVM2 Information
Ok, so I'm stupid and made a serious and grave mistake. On my linux box running Ubuntu 10.10, I have a 1.5TB RAID array that I had originally setup using the instructions located here: ...
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Restore Windows Server backup into a smaller partition
A Windows Server 2008 R2 machine was mistakenly partitioned. The system partition is now larger than it should be. Because Disk Management doesn't let me shrink the partition to the desired size, I ...
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Does using vmdks improve / mitigate the risk of forensic data recovery?
If I want to mitigate the risk of data recovery from a disk drive resold as surplus equipment, how would the use of virtual disks assist?
For example, if I have half a dozen vmdks on a 1TB drive (for ...
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[Fedora 14][LVM2&EXT4] Overwritten partition config
Accidentally, I deleted my '/etc' & '/bin' folder (I know, my fault).
Then, I boot liveCD and tried to copy or fix this issue.
And then when I can't figure nothing to fix it, I don't know why, I ...
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Windows 2000 Server failed drive recovery
Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations for good data recovery software for a Windows 2000 Server. The most important drive recently failed and while there was a backup, it was two weeks ...
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How to make a byte for byte copy of a drive? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Using DD for disk cloning
What's the easiest and most reliable, risk free, way of making an exact copy of a hard drive?
We have a drive that's been messed up by someone ...
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Damaged Disk with ESXi Data Store needs Recovery
We have a server which has a single 2TB drive in it (it was part way through an upgrade).
During this upgrade, the engineer had moved all the Virtual Machines from the main drive set on to this 2TB ...
