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

[Jeff O'Brien]

Dale,

I actually just had an exactly similar failure.  I had a mail/web/ftp 
server, 2 drives with the /var /pub dirs on the only accessible drive.  
Luckily I was in the process of testing and upgrading when the primary 
drive died, so I had a few config files( passwd/shadow/group/aliases).

with the knoppix boot disk you should see if you can access you're 
broken drive at all, if not recovering the /var partition of the good 
drive will work.  I'd take note of the file permissions for areas of 
that directory branch before it gets trashed.  ls -al > dir-perms.log or 
something.

I have a question about your parity error.  What is it coming from?  a 
scsi controller, bios?  It might be memory, a memtest86+ boot disk might 
be helpful as well.

Dale's Lists wrote:
> Hello Scott,
>
> ----- Original Message Follows -----
> From: Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>
> To: whitebox-users at beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] steps to help recover data from a
> crashed system? (boot drive crashed, need to get data from
> data drive)
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:34:31 -0800
>
>   
>> Dale Lists spake the following on 2/12/2006 1:52 PM:
>>     
>>> Whitebox 3
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> [snip]
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>   
>>> Thanks for any help/suggestions.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>       
>> Is this a raid array? Or just 2 drives?
>> It makes a difference on what you might recover, and how
>> easy it will be (or difficult).
>>     
>
> Currently the setup is just 2 drives. The drive I believe
> that is hosed is the boot drive, the second drive is the
> /var volume which contains my websites and mail spools.
>
> So I am hoping I will be able to get the data from the /var
> volume.
>
> Dale
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