On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:47 -0400, Ron Croonenberg wrote: > Well here is the thing. We had a 'standby' server that basically > would copy everything every night and in case something bad ever would > happen to the main server we could run it off that one. > However that one got fried during that same power outage. > We also made backups on tape, and guess what.. the server that made > those backups also got fried.. > > > So yes, it is pretty important data, it's pretty much the last > accessible data source we have, so I want to be really careful with it. > > I do have a few other machines that I can use to store data, etc.. > > Ron
Wow, sorry to hear about your situation. If this is critically important, and your absolute last resort to recover the data, the first thing I would do is get an image of the entire drive, and also an image of each partition (you can get the partitions from the full image, but i find it easier to have individual partition images for convenience). By image, I'm talking about doing a dd if=/dev/sda ... if you don't have a place to store the images, just run down to the store and buy a 500GB, 1TB, or 2TB external drive of some sort... USB will be rather slow for anything on the order of 100GB's or more, but it still works; just takes time. you can then later make copies of those images to mess with without the worry that you're messing around with your only source of the data. Without the worry, you'll have more options for recovery... -Bond _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
