On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:57:49AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > > I have a large system with a fair number of resources which has just come > home from the hospital (computer) when I had a disk drive fail abruptly. > > 1.The tech tells me that the hard drive can be accessed. How do I do a low > level transfer to another hard drive? > (This would mean that I would have empty sectors but there is some > information that I would like to get.)
'dd' is the usual answer. But, on a failing disk, it may really kill it. I've been told that freezing your disk helps with recovery. > > 2. The drive was my 'operating system' drive. That meant that here is where > I kept my 14 VirtualBox machines. (One was my business record keeping > (accounting) and that is the one that I want real bad but its only 16 > months of data so it can be redone but its painful!) > > How do I set up the hard drive so that files can be moved to my RAID array > (which should be just fine) - - - or should I? > Should I be setting up this drive as it was before but just looking for a > way to do backups? > As I understand it operating systems on RAID isn't nice - - - or is it? Well, I don't recommend changing your setup, when you're doing recovery. Do the recovery first. Afterwards, you can use RAID for OS. I think, most distro still ask for separate boot partition, eg. /boot as ext4 for MBR setup, and of course /boot/efi as fat32 for UEFI setup. And, do backup. > > I am looking for something that doesn't crap out so completely. I > understand I should have had backups but I wasn't able to get the shared > folder stuff working so that I could seamlessly transfer stuff to my main > array. That would also be a viable option if someone can tell me how to > cudgel VirtualBox into submission. > > Questions welcomed. > > TIA > > Dee > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
