Re: Help with data recovering

[Michael <mike@draftx.net>]

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 <hugo@carfax.org.uk> 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.
>
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