[WBEL-users] steps to help recover data from a crashed system? (boot drive crashed, need to get data from data drive)

[Dale Lists]

Whitebox 3


Hello,

I have a server that has 2 hot swap SCSI drives on it. When trying to 
boot I now get a 'parity error' when the drive tries to load. I have 
gotten a replacement drive, but need to be careful as to what steps to 
take next so as to not mess up the data on the second drive. The second 
drive was basically my /varr directory. I do not have a machine 
available where I could just put this good drive into, which is why I 
bought a new drive and am looking at installing the OS onto the new one 
to somehow pull the data off the old drive.

I am not sure if I can get/create a CD that I can bot from to copy the 
data from the god drive to someplace else or should I format this new 
drive and install whitebox on it then somehow mount the other drive and 
copy the data over.

If I boot with the /var drive , I get a GRUB prompt on the screen - not 
sure if there is anything I can do with this or not, my main concern is 
saving the data on that drive.

My goal, once I get the data off the drive in a safe place, is to 
re-format everything (trash the bad drive) and set the system back up 
with RAID 0.

Thanks for any help/suggestions.

Dale