> Op 24 dec. 2016 om 14:47 heeft L. Bader <ceph-us...@lbader.de> het volgende 
> geschreven:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with our (dead) Ceph-Cluster: The configuration seems to be 
> gone (deleted / overwritten) and all monitors are gone aswell. However, we do 
> not have (up-to-date) backups for all VMs (used with Proxmox) and we would 
> like to recover them from "raw" OSDs only (we have all OSDs mounted on one 
> Storage Server). Restoring the cluster itself seems impossible.
> 

Work is on it's way iirc to restore MONs from OSD data.

You might want to search for that, the tracker or Github might help.

> To recover the VM images I tried to write a simple tool that:
> 1) searches all OSDs for udata files
> 2) Sorts them by Image ID
> 3) Sorts them by "position" / offset
> 4) Assembles the 4MB blocks to a single file using dd
> 
> (See: https://gitlab.lbader.de/kryptur/ceph-recovery/tree/master )
> 
> However, for many (nearly all) images there are missing blocks (empty parts I 
> guess). So I created a 4MB block of Null-Bytes for each missing parts.
> 
> The problem is that the created Image is not usable. fdisk detects partitions 
> correctly, but we cannot access the data in any way.
> 
> Is there another way to recover the data without having any (working) ceph 
> tools?
> 
> Greetings and Merry Christmas :)
> 
> Lennart
> 
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