[WBEL-users] steps to help recover data from a crashed system?(boot drive cr

[Graham Waring]

G'day everyone,
Some great tips getting passed back and forth here Dale so good luck.  
Booting to knoppix and copying data over the network has saved my behind so 
many times.  In the past I have tar'd up and scp'd but you may like to try 
rsync if it comes with the knoppix you have.  You can pass it over ssh  and 
preserve permissions/ownership...and heaps more.  Carefull with the syntax 
though as it is quite powerfull.  Use it once and you will be looking for 
opertunities to use rsync each day...its pretty cool.  As you would expect 
as it was written by the man that gave us samba.
Hope it helps mate
Graham

>From: "Jeff O'Brien" <jobrien at ntisys.com>
>To: Dale Lists <lists at ehome.net>
>CC: 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 07:53:06 -0500
>
>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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