From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:57986 "EHLO mail-vb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754248Ab2FDSDs (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:03:48 -0400 Received: by vbbff1 with SMTP id ff1so2633247vbb.19 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FCCF882.5080500@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:03:46 -0400 From: Maxim Mikheev MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael CC: Hugo Mills , Liu Bo , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Help with data recovering References: <4FCC9C63.7000605@gmail.com> <4FCC9CD5.2050309@gmx.net> <4FCC9F6C.5090305@gmail.com> <20120604114901.GA15986@carfax.org.uk> <4FCCA39C.8060409@gmail.com> <20120604121134.GB15986@carfax.org.uk> <4FCCA9E6.3030209@gmail.com> <20120604123431.GC15986@carfax.org.uk> <4FCCE125.7000004@gmail.com> <20120604170422.GD15986@carfax.org.uk> <20120604170936.GE15986@carfax.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: It was a RAID0 unfortunately. On 06/04/2012 02:02 PM, Michael wrote: > If he has it in a RAID 1, could he manually fail the bad disk and try > it from there? Obviously this could be harmful, so a dd copy would be > a VERY good idea(truthfully, that should have been the first thing > that was done). > Michael > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 06:04:22PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: >>> I'm out of ideas. >> ... but that's not to say that someone else may have some ideas. I >> wouldn't get your hopes up too much, though. >> >>> At this point, though, you're probably looking at somebody writing >>> custom code to scan the FS and attempt to find and retrieve anything >>> that's recoverable. >>> >>> You might try writing a tool to scan all the disks for useful >>> fragments of old trees, and see if you can find some of the tree roots >>> independently of the tree of tree roots (which clearly isn't >>> particularly functional right now). You might try simply scanning the >>> disks looking for your lost data, and try to reconstruct as much of it >>> as you can from that. You could try to find a company specialising in >>> data recovery and pay them to try to get your data back. Or you might >>> just have to accept that the data's gone and work on reconstructing >>> it. >> Hugo. >> >> -- >> === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === >> PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk >> --- A linked list is still a binary tree. Just a very unbalanced --- >> one. -- dragon