mustbemad;173048 Wrote: > Hey Guys > > Interesting thread... I was in the process of splitting my single > Linux box into two linux boxes, so I could at least back up one to > another nightly... When the primary disk in it went North. > > Good News: My Slimserver Library is on the good disk & I just backed up > 20 Gigs of digital photos to DVD... > Bad News: The other disk had another 60Meg of everything else I had > ever wanted to keep on it: Videos, Kids' GCSE course work & other > life-limiting-if-you-lose-it data... > > Anyone know any decent software which might be able to analyse & > extract data from the bad disk? It seems mechanically OK, but has lost > ALL the Superblock backups & possibly more. I've tried the usual CLI > utils to no avail and a free prog called TestDisk which wasn't able to > do anything for me. > > Any ideas anyone? > > Cheers
There are commercial software packages that do this, even with Linux FS's, and I believe they tend to run in the $50-$100 range. I don't know how well they work. If that fails, you might try a professional data recovery service. Two excellent ones are Ontrack (ontrack.com) and Drive Savers (drivesavers.com). Downside is that these are very expensive. I'd expext $500-$2K for data recovery. One other comment-- why would you need to setup two linux boxes for drive backup purposes? I use rsnapshot (basically an elegant wrapper over rsync) to backup one drive to another drive in the same machine daily. It works beautifully. Incidentally, you can use rsnapshot to back up via ssh to remote machines as well. http://rsnapshot.org #!/ben note: I'm surprised people keep thinking RAID is for backup, when pretty much any thread or doc you read on RAID states fervently in the first paragraph "RAID IS NOT A BACKUP SYSTEM". -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
