fine. In rescue mode, you can do debugfs or "e2fsck -f -b 32768.." on the /dev/mapper/volume and try to get a good superblock and correct the filesystem.
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Croonenberg" <[email protected]> To: "Bond Masuda" <[email protected]> Cc: "linux-poweredge" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 12:11:53 PM Subject: Re: dell 2850 initrd problem. right, I am actually thinking about moving the date to another machine and/or put it on another device. (the rescue cd gives me the option to activate the network interfaces, that way I could scp or ftp it to another machine and inspect the retrieved data before anything else.) Bond Masuda wrote: > 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 > > -- ================================================================== main(p){printf(p,34,p="main(p){printf(p,34,p=%c%s%c,34); }",34); } ================================================================== Ron Croonenberg | | Phone: 1 765 658 4761 Lab Instructor & | Fax: 1 765 658 4732 Technology Coordinator | | Department of Computer Science | e-mail: [email protected] DePauw University | 275 Julian Science & Math Center | 602 South College Ave. | Greencastle, IN 46135 | ================================================================== _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
