Jefferson Ogata wrote: > I meant the other way around. If the two backup systems are "fried" but > you can get their disks running on alternate "non-fried" systems, you > can recover your data from those. >
gotcha. well the one machine was not a raid, and one drive is toast, doesn't even spin. The other one (the backup tape server) has no files, they are on tape, but the tape drive/controller is not working. (looking into getting another one) >> question: since I have a broken filesystem, does it even make sense >> to make a disk image of it? or do you mean just for backup? (that if I >> break it, I still have the broken stuff I started with?) >> > > Yes, it does make sense, and for the reason you surmise. > > Ideally you would get a disk image onto another system as an LV, take a > snapshot of that, and then work with the snapshot. Then if things go > awry, you just drop the snapshot and make a new one. > > If you're lucky, what's happened is that the /etc directory file has > been damaged but that all of the objects it linked to are intact. fsck > will reparent these objects under /lost+found if so. > > that makes sense. There are a bunch of startup files in /etc that seem to be damaged. I noticed that browsing through /etc > But there may be other damage as well. > > But even if you can't recover /etc, you may well be able to recover the > data you're really interested in. > > And even if files have been orphaned and fsck doesn't reattach them > under /lost+found you may be able to recover them using debugfs. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > -- ================================================================== main(p){printf(p,34,p="main(p){printf(p,34,p=%c%s%c,34); }",34); } ================================================================== Ron Croonenberg | | Phone: 1 765 658 4761 Lab Instructor & | Fax: 1 765 658 4732 Technology Coordinator | | Department of Computer Science | e-mail: r...@depauw.edu DePauw University | 275 Julian Science & Math Center | 602 South College Ave. | Greencastle, IN 46135 | ================================================================== _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
