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

[Scott Silva]

Dale's Lists spake the following on 2/13/2006 12:17 PM:
> 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
You should be able to get to that data with the Knoppix disk. But you will
need somewhere to put it if you are going to format the remaining drive.
I wouldn't recommend raid 0 for your new install if you want any hope of
recovery should one of the drives fail.

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