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

[Jeff O'Brien]

goto http://www.knoppix.net/get.php  Knoppix has saved me on a few 
occaisions during a crashed system for recovering data.

Boot up to knoppix, it should detect your drives and copy the data off 
via a smb mounted share, scp etc...  My personl fav is piping tar into 
ssh to a remote system to maintain ownerships and file permissions like:  

cd /
tar cf - * | ssh root at remotehost "cd savedir/ ; tar xf - "

supply your passwd and sit back.

-Jeff

Dale Lists wrote:
> 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
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Jeff O'Brien
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Net Technologies / Signull Technologies
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