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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: xjjk16x on June 29, 2007, 12:59:45 AM
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I recently had a hard drive fail. The hard drive is still usuable but it has bad clusters and gives crc errors occasionaly.
I want to retrieve the data off with certain data recovery utilities.
My questions are:
What is the default directory where the ibay's data is stored.
What file system type is the data. EXT2/3 FAT32/ntfs?
Is the filesystem different for the ibay and ext2/3 for everything else?
How many partitions are there by default? which partition should i consider looking in first??
The reason I am asking is that I have run a file recovery utility and i can see the entire structure. I can see the various parent directories. I looked in /home/e-smiths/... no mention of a files folder.
Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
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The root filesystem on my 7.1.3 server (installed from the 7.1 iso) is ext3.
ibays are in /home/e-smith/files/ibays
Data recovery may be tricky as the disks are originally configured using raid - even with only one disk, I think...
When I run 'fsck -AN' I get:
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 /dev/main/root
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /boot] fsck.ext3 /dev/md1
(I don't know if this is useful...)
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Just plug your drive into a windows machine and using
http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/explore2fs-1.08beta9.zip
you can acces your ext3/lvm2 volumes and copy out your data.
This was rather hard for me to find when I needed it myself :)