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Reconstruct deleted virtual disk in PERC 710 RAID Array
Today, I did the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life. I have a PowerEdge server with a PERC 710 RAID controller. I had 4 drives in RAID 5 configuration (1 2.7 TB Virtual Disk) and I wanted to ...
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How can I restore part of a mailbox from an RDB?
I need to restore only part of a mailbox that was deleted by accident. I restored the database and tried to associate it to a dummy test account but get the error
Failed
Error: The mailbox ...
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Reducing the delay occured during DNS change
We have hosted our website in a windows server 2008 r2 with Godaddy and as a disaster recovery plan we do have backup of all website data and database files.We also have backup server which is similar ...
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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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Run Server 2012 Refresh from a command line?
Much as the subject says, anyone know how to do a System Refresh on Server 2012 from the command line?
This is a 'Minimal Server Interface' mode Server 2012 install so no full GUI.
Have tried ...
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Enable Recovery console from a batch
I want to enable the Recovery Console on a lot of Windows 2003 servers.
I want to automate this so I don't have to manually do it on hundreds of servers.
The recovery console install process seems ...
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Exchange Server 2007 lost mailboxes and distribution groups
I was having some trouble with our Exchange 2007 server earlier which was causing it to fail to connect to our Domain Controller.
I've managed to get is to connect to the domain controller and I can ...
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PGP decryption fails with error for one file
We store database backups encrypted with PGP Command Line 9.7.0. Files look like 2009.bak.pgp
Here's command line used to backup these files:
pgp --encrypt F:\2009.bak --recipient admin@company.mail ...
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ZFS Faulted and I can't remove the faulted disk
Friends,
had one hard drive fail in a 4x1.5 TB ZFS setup and am now stuck. status output is below. Since it's a raidz1 vdev, I am still hoping for recovering it. My issue is that since I cannot ...
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Recovering InnoDB
Bit of tough situation. Running MySQL 5.5 on Ubuntu 12.04. Looking to add some functionality to our internal site, I installed Kaltura. In doing so, my existing MySQL databases seemed to lose all ...
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Windows 2000 Server Recovery after HDD crash
I have here a Windows 2000 Server that I am desperately trying to resurrect after a HDD crash.
The HDD crashed with the Seagate BSY Bug. After unblocking the firmware via the TTL/Serial port, we ...
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Server failed, can I retrieve my database from the my hard disk?
I have an old server running Windows Server 2003 R2. Windows got corrupted due to an improper shutdown. I attempted to repair the Windows installation, but it made things worse (it gets to the ...
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How to create a new instance from a snapshot of Amazon EC2? [closed]
How to restore an instance or create a new instance from a snapshot in Amazon EC2 Micro instance?
I tried many guides but nothing worked. I already tried it 25 times but failed all the time,
25 ...
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LSI RAID-on-chip with RAID6 over two SAS links goes red when HDD enclosure is powered cycled; how to recover?
I have a RAID6 array managed by LSI 9286-8e card. I also have Sans Digital 24-bay NexentaSTOR JBOD enclosure with SAS extender built-in. They are connected to separate UPS devices. Normally, I'd ...
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How to repair XFS filesystem with the first sector broken?
I have copy the partition to a file with ddrescue, but the first sector is broken and filled with zeros.
I run xfs_repair -f -o force_geometry file.img, after it says "found candidate secondary ...
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Exchange 2010 Recovery: Mailbox not found using Restore-Mailbox
Exchange 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 5 server information store database was restored to a Recovery Database using EMC Networker successfully. The Recovery Database is in a mounted state with mailboxes ...
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Recovering with DDRescue Cannot Complete (write error: Read-only file system)
I'm trying to recover a corrupt VDI using vdfuse to mount the VDI and using dd_rescue to rescue the borked partition.
dd_rescue seems to be working fine but once it reached about half of the ...
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MyISAM table - Inncorrect key file
I have a MySQL 5.1.63 server and two uncorrectable MyISAM table. I tried the following ways to repair it:
mysqlcheck -r db.tbl1
ALTER TABLE db.tbl1 ENGINE=InnoDB
myisamchk -re /var/lib/mysql/db/tbl1
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Windows server detected error with hard disk
We have hosting Windows server 2008 R2 and I am working as admin in small company. The server is hanging and restarting as the hard disk seems to be damaged due to power fluctutaion(though having ...
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Recover snap server data
Hi I have a snap server 110 the machine powers on ok and the healthcheck passes but unable to connect no responce on the assigned ip or any ability to reach the device via the snap server manager.
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PostgreSQL disaster recovery options
My customer has quite a large (the total "data" folder size is 200G) PostgreSQL database and we are working on a disaster recovery plan. We have identified three different types of disasters so far: ...
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Scan raw block device data for known file types on linux [closed]
I'm looking for a way to search a raw block device for file type patterns on linux. The partition type is known and the partition table exists.
I want a linux based (open source maybe?) programm ...
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No more disk space mysql is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed
I have a mysql (MyISAM) table which is about 15 Gbs. The total available size after i setup ubuntu 12.04 (using wubi) is 18 Gbs. Now i have the error is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair ...
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Linux RAID: Replacing Failed Drive…permanantly
Okay, odd question here. I have a server with RAID 5. A drive failed, in a really physically in a really odd way. On the machine it boots and is seen by the BIOS but...no partition can be seen on the ...
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Minimum distance of backup data center from main data center? [closed]
As we know having backups at a separate data center is a good way to achieve high recover-ability in case of prolonged data center down times. But then I thought what if it's a major disaster or an ...
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How to stop a Linux LVM volume group?
I am currently dealing with a multiple disk failure on a Linux LVM Volume Group that is backed up by a RAID-5 md device. One disk has been taken out completely and another one is showing a limited ...
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raid1 lvm2 recovery
One, i set up a raid 1 and then used lvm for the partitions.
Maybe the other way round.
i'm very confused now.
I need to recover the data from the one disk, unfortunately one disk is dead.
i remember ...
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Multiboot USB (OSX only): How to customize partition name? [closed]
Trying to deal with all the Mac OSX recovery disks I've got by moving them to bootable USB images. I've got a big USB drive with multiple partitions for each recovery disk, and it's easy to use Disk ...
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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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What's the possible issue when i connect an hard disk and Windows Disk Management tell me “Disk is not initialized”? [closed]
I've a disk to recover. The problem is that when i connect it via Usb to Windows, Disk Management tell me "Disk is not initialized". So i try to inizialize it flagging "MBR" or "GPT" but Windows ...
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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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Reading off of MDADM drives after server died
I had a 2-drive RAID-1 array running on ubuntu, which I had forgotten about. The host I was running them on is now dead, leaving me with these two disks. How can I get data off of them? If I dump ...
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Recovering data from a damaged disk
So have this problem. Have a 500G disk with data that has crashed. I need to recover data.
I used ddrescue to first create an image and I have recovered 455G to that image.
Now, I do not know what ...
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MSA20 RAID5 recovery failure due to URE on another disk
I have MSA20 with one disk array on 12 disks and 3 LUNs on it (each raid 5). A few days ago one disk in one of the LUNs was failed and I replaced it. But raid5 recovering failed at 13% and I see in ...
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Use at best reliability two old servers to deploy a domain in small business
I have to deploy a Windows 2008 Domain and all I have is two old (5 years) Hp 380.
Of course I know that the best in reliability would be to buy new hardware and I've told the customer that nothing ...
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Electricity gone off while shrinking database, how can I recover my database?
While executing a shrink on a 25GB database, the electricity has gone down, and I can't access my database. It shows as "In Recovery".
How can I recover it?
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Supermicro BIOS recovery - SUPER.ROM
I have a Supermicro X9SCL+-F motherboard that I flashed a beta BIOS to, then the flash went bad when I tried to flash back to the latest stable. I am attempting to recover using their SUPER.ROM ...
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Recover ESXi partitions
Wanted to backup an ESXi server but pressed the wrong button in my hosting provider panel, which instead installed a fresh linux on the server.
Right now I'm imaging the whole drive with ddrescue.
Is ...
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Mysqld InnoDB crash
my MySQL server just crashed and I cannot restart/recover it. I've tried:
/etc/init.d/mysql restart
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . ...
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3ware 9650SE-24M8 INOPERABLE data recovery
I have a raid6 array with 16 hdds. Two harddrives had failed (device error), but when I went to replace them, I pulled out one wrong disk!
Now the raid array is INOPERABLE. Is there any way to ...
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Recovering deleted messages on Web host's mail server? [closed]
I apologize if this isn't the right place to ask, but due to an automatic list import malfunction, some of my client's email address settings were misconfigured in his Web host's control panel, and an ...
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HP P410i Array Controller and lost logical Drive
Today earlier we lost the logical drive information for a 4 drive raid array that was array B!
The system had two arrays A and B A being the single system drive and B the Data drive of 4 x 136Gb ...
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Protecting of witness folder in Exchange 2010 DAG
I have some recovery software and Exchange DAG cluster under protection of it. Should i also add a witness server under protection? Or i can just recreate a witness folder using Exchange Management ...
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HP Proliant 380 G4 iLO stuck in recovery mode
The iLO interface on this server is stuck in recovery mode. I've tried flashing the firmware via FTP per the iLO manual. It seems like the flash succeeds & the iLO interface resets, but it comes ...
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Can WinRE be removed from virtual machines?
With the aim of reducing standard VHD size as much as possible, is it a good idea to make an image with WinRE (in C:\Recovery) removed?
If it is ever actually needed, to recovery a faulty VM, would ...
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MySQL master-master replication between database running on 3 different server
I am trying to implement a master-master replication between 3 MySQL Databases running on 3 different servers.
I implemented master-master replication for 2 servers, but can't figure out how can I ...
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Can I access rsync in this situation? [closed]
My CISC professor has had our class use SSH to log in to his server, hosted by a company called Panix. We use vim to edit and compile our code on his server.
We just took an exam, and as part of said ...
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ext4 filesystem broken
I have a synology nas with an internal hdd (a 2TB wd ears). This drive has SMART errors.
I took the drive and build it in a external USB case. Then i booted Linux mint and tried to mount the data ...
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Recover Ubuntu Server after openvz install
The situation: I have ubuntu server. After installing openvz I had to reboot it, but it never started. I was able to boot it in recovery mode, I mounted back partitions, backed up files.
I was ...
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how safe are FS recovery operations?
I just needed to do a recovery of a vserver after a failed update.
Because the scope of the affected files wasn't exactly known, I completely restored most directories, except /home which was not ...
