Re: how to recover filesystem after clobbering array?

["Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler@tolaris.com>]

On 2011-07-19 11:17, David Brown wrote:
> Once you have got image files for each of your disks, make copies of
> these image files to another spare disk. Keep careful notes of exactly
> what you have done here, and which files are which. And put your
> original disks, carefully labelled, on a shelf somewhere.
>
> Now you are in a position to attempt data recovery on your copied
> files. If you do something wrong, you can simply re-copy the image
> files and try again. You still have absolutely no guarantees that
> you'll get anything back - but at least you can be sure you are not
> going to make anything worse.

Follow David's advice.

What was the filesystem on the array?

Now, use testdisk, photorec, and foremost to seek through the raw images
and extract files. The good news is, most video formats are detectable
by these tools. All can be installed with your package manager.

Regards,
Tyler

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