Great to hear you got your data back even after all the terrible luck you suffered!
Regards Steve On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 00:49, Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net> wrote: > Michelle Sullivan wrote: > >> On 02 May 2019, at 03:39, Steven Hartland <kill...@multiplay.co.uk> > wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> On 01/05/2019 15:53, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > >>> Paul Mather wrote: > >>>>> On Apr 30, 2019, at 11:17 PM, Michelle Sullivan <miche...@sorbs.net> > wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Been there done that though with ext2 rather than UFS.. still got > all my data back... even though it was a nightmare.. > >>>> > >>>> Is that an implication that had all your data been on UFS (or ext2:) > this time around you would have got it all back? (I've got that impression > through this thread from things you've written.) That sort of makes it > sound like UFS is bulletproof to me. > >>> Its definitely not (and far from it) bullet proof - however when the > data on disk is not corrupt I have managed to recover it - even if it has > been a nightmare - no structure - all files in lost+found etc... or even > resorting to r-studio in the even of lost raid information etc.. > >> Yes but you seem to have done this with ZFS too, just not in this > particularly bad case. > >> > > There is no r-studio for zfs or I would have turned to it as soon as > this issue hit. > > > > > > > So as an update, this Company: http://www.klennet.com/ produce a ZFS > recovery tool: https://www.klennet.com/zfs-recovery/default.aspx and > following several code changes due to my case being an 'edge case' the > entire volume (including the zvol - which I previously recovered as it > wasn't suffering from the metadata corruption) and all 34 million files > is being recovered intact with the entire directory structure. Its only > drawback is it's a windows only tool, so I built 'windows on a stick' > and it's running from that. The only thing I had to do was physically > pull the 'spare' out as the spare already had data on it from being > previously swapped in and it confused the hell out of the algorithm that > detects the drive order. > > Regards, > > Michelle > > -- > Michelle Sullivan > http://www.mhix.org/ > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
