Topic: Help required urgently SOS - new install SME Server

[pabby_s]

Hi,

First of all i have to say this is great product, secondly i am new to Linux or SME Server. I had SME 7.2 installed on my office server acting as rellay for email. This server was booting from external SCSI drive. The server developed hardware fault and it crashed. The data is still on the external scsi drive. I need to get all my emails and data back. Please advise.
I have installed SME 7.3 on a new server, is ther a way that i can have all my emails and settings back.

Help will be highly appreciated.

Pabby

[cactus]

Hi,

First of all i have to say this is great product, secondly i am new to Linux or SME Server. I had SME 7.2 installed on my office server acting as rellay for email. This server was booting from external SCSI drive. The server developed hardware fault and it crashed. The data is still on the external scsi drive. I need to get all my emails and data back. Please advise.
I have installed SME 7.3 on a new server, is ther a way that i can have all my emails and settings back.

Help will be highly appreciated.

Pabby

Did you already have a look at this: http://wiki.contribs.org/Recovering_SME_Server_with_lvm_drives ?

[pabby_s]

Hi Thanks for the reply, what i am interested in is getting my emails back. I do not know where they are stored and how. Please help. All the clients were accessing sme server as imap clients and sme server was downloading mail from my dyndns mail server.

[janet]

pabby_s

I have installed SME 7.3 on a new server, is ther a way that i can have all my emails and settings back.

Connect the old drive to the new server as a second disk, then mount it, then copy required files from /home/e-smith/files/users/....

Make sure the ownership is correct when finished, as it may change depending how you do your copying

[pabby_s]

Hi

I have connected my old drive and mind it is external drive connected through adaptech scsi card.
Issue 1: How to check the drive is recognised by system (the system when boots up detects the card, i have checked that)
Issue 2: When the drive is detected how to mount it

Please help as i am banging my head with walls otherwise.

Thanks
Pabby

[pabby_s]

Sorry For my ignorance,

I have managed to log in as root, however still cannot get edit command. Also my other question still remains there as i cannot see the drive

Please help.

[pabby_s]

oops sorry i forgot to tell, the system has Perc HArdware Raid solution, and the drive from where the data needs to be copied is connected externally through adaptec 2940w card.

[janet]

pabby_s

I have managed to log in as root, however still cannot get edit command.

Well if you are logged in as root, you can issue any commands you want, as long as you know what to issue.
What "edit" command are you referring to ?

Have you done a Google search on Linux commands ?

Also my other question still remains there as i cannot see the drive

You need to be proactive.
If you click on the Howto link at the top of these forums you will find the AddExtraHardDisk howtos

http://wiki.contribs.org/Category:Howto

[pabby_s]

Hi Mary,

Thanks for your reply, however my output of

cat /var/log/dmesg | grep md

is totally different
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: md1 stopped.
md: bind<sda1>
raid1: raid set md1 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors
md: md2 stopped.
md: bind<sda2>
md: md2: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
raid1: raid set md2 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: could not bd_claim cciss/c1d0p1.
md: could not bd_claim cciss/c1d0p2.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
EXT3 FS on md1, internal journal
------------------------------------------

[pabby_s]

Just to confirm that my other hard drive from other server, i have data on it that i need to recover.

[janet]

pabby_s

Seems you are using the SCSI Howto, try the other one and just replace hdx with sdx

[pabby_s]

Hi,

you mean replace hda with sda

also using the howto i will not loose my data on that hard drive. Am i correct

[pabby_s]

Hi

I manage to somehow get my old server up for 20 min and i got the backup on usb stick. Now i tried to get the settings on new server, it does restore but after restore it needs me to configure server.

Please help as i am really stressed.