On 2010-06-04 16:47, Ron Croonenberg wrote: > Jefferson Ogata wrote: >> How important is the content of this system. Do you have another system >> you can image the disk to in case you do something destructive > > 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..
In what sense are these systems "fried"? Can you move the RAID controller and disks from one system to another? > 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.. Do you have one with enough spare capacity to store a complete disk image of the system you are trying to recover? You can work piecemeal if you used a reasonable partitioning scheme. Check /dev/mapper and the sizes of the devices you find there; you can work with each one individually if need be. _______________________________________________ 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
