Re: disk recovery problem(s)

2010-11-19 Thread perryh
Thomas Exner wrote: > when running fsck the first error message is "ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED" > ... > Is there a chance to get the data back? Dunno about current versions, but IIRC some earlier versions of dump(8) could handle even a badly-corrupted FS. No harm in trying, since it will not try to

Re: disk recovery problem II

2009-02-07 Thread perryh
> huff@>> newfs /dev/da3a > /dev/da3a: 78167.2MB (160086512 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 > using 426 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 3010976

Re: disk recovery problem(s)

2009-02-06 Thread Robert Huff
Roland Smith writes: > > huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a > > ** /dev/da3a > > ** Last Mounted on /backup > > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames > > ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED > > ALLOCATE? [yn] > > > >a) what's probably happened? > > Error messages are expla

Re: disk recovery problem(s)

2009-02-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:48:41 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Had a power outage recently; when trying to fsck several > external hard drives I'm getting unexpected errors. > For example: > > huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a > ** /dev/da3a > ** Last Mounted on /backup > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks a

Re: disk recovery problem(s)

2009-02-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:48:41PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Had a power outage recently; when trying to fsck several > external hard drives I'm getting unexpected errors. > For example: > > huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a > ** /dev/da3a > ** Last Mounted on /backup > ** Phase 1 - Check Bl

Re: disk recovery tools...

2008-01-18 Thread fbsdq
with a subject this time... I've used /usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk to recover my BSD partitions, but it was just a HD failure/MBR nukage, no newfs was run on it - Try that. ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: disk recovery tools...

2008-01-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
From professional experience as a data recovery technician, I can tell you that ufs2 drives are among the hardest to recover from after a there is a little change as UFS2 use lazy inode initialization. so possibly lots can be recovered. but i don't know any soft that does it.

Re: disk recovery tools...

2008-01-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
moving disks from an old server to a new one I suffered from a moment of brain fade last night and newfs'ed a drive I shouldn't have. One of that new crop that is so large you won't have an adequate backup for it... :( no rescue. newfs overwrote inodes that contained your files metadata. __

Re: disk recovery tools...

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Hawkins
>From professional experience as a data recovery technician, I can tell you that ufs2 drives are among the hardest to recover from after a format. So far the best applications that I have found for recovering data in a situation like this are testdisk and Easy Recovery Professional (by Kroll Ontra

Re: disk recovery

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, > Hi, > > I have a personal server with 400Gb of hard disks in various shapes and > sizes. I don't have enough money for redundant disks, and I would like > to know what the most efficient way of making sure my data doesn't get > lost, in case of a hard drive failure. The best would be for

Re: disk recovery

2004-05-24 Thread Joachim Dagerot
I used to think just like you. I thought I found the perfect balance between being on a budget and still having some kind of data security by using the Vinum software raid. So I stored the first 10 hours of video and 4k of still shots of my newly borned first child on the raid, and everything went

RE: disk recovery

2004-05-24 Thread JJB
Even considering repairing an damaged HD as an method to replace backups is an stupid thought. People who do not backup critical data are fools. There is no price tag one can put on critical data. You find some way to backup to flat compressed file format and write to an removable HD or CDROM or so

Re: disk recovery

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
John Oxley wrote: Hi, I have a personal server with 400Gb of hard disks in various shapes and sizes. I don't have enough money for redundant disks, and I would like to know what the most efficient way of making sure my data doesn't get lost, in case of a hard drive failure. The best would be for