Basically you can boot into rescue mode and repair the boot loader to fix your original system, i.e. get it booting.
Another alternative would be to mount the "drives" on a working os to recover the piler config and vector values, download the message store and try and make a database backup. If you have the config + vector + messages without the database I have code which will rebuild your archive. _________________ eXtremeSHOK.com _________________ > On 05 Jan 2017, at 5:35 AM, Rhys Andrews <randr...@wycliffe.nsw.edu.au> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > Please excuse my ignorance as I don’t know my way around the Linux > environment too well. > > I configured MailPiler on a virtual machine using VirtualBox, following the > instructions here: > http://www.mailpiler.org/wiki/current:vmware-ova > > I created a second volume for additional space as per the suggestion. As I > understand it, the entire /var directory is stored on that second volume? > > It worked great for a few months, but after a power outage last week, the > virtual machine would no longer boot (it would get stuck at ‘welcome to > grub!’). As far as I know, only the first volume (the bootable one) is > corrupted, but the second volume (containing /var, the archive?) could still > be in tact. > > I have rebuilt MailPiler with new VMDK files and it appears to be working OK, > just without any of the original emails in the archive. > My question is, would I be able to restore the archive from the broken second > volume? And if so, can somebody point me in the right direction? > > (Yes, I should have kept a backup - but it was technically a test build, and > now I am ready for production). > > Thanks in advance! > Rhys > > > Rhys Andrews | I.T Administrator | Wycliffe Christian School > Ph: (02) 4753 6422 +911 | E-mail: randr...@wycliffe.nsw.edu.au > Address: 133 Rickard Road | Warrimoo 2774 | NSW Australia > > >
