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Title: Read the SME server harddisk from another Live CD Linux Distribution
Post by: veebr0 on September 06, 2010, 06:52:06 PM

Dear Friend, I'm not an expert in Linux,  that is the reason that  I'm asking you,  I would like to know if exist a way to read all information in and SME 7.4 standard installation with a live Cd Linux distribution.

I got a crash in my SME 4 production server and I need to recover two important virtual machines created on this server. 

If I will recover this, I will recover my job.

Thanks in advance,
Eviny

Title: Re: Read the SME server harddisk from another Live CD Linux Distribution
Post by: Stefano on September 06, 2010, 06:53:58 PM

what about using SME's cd in rescue mode?

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sme rescue

at boot

Title: Re: Read the SME server harddisk from another Live CD Linux Distribution
Post by: veebr0 on September 06, 2010, 07:08:53 PM

Hey man Thanks four your prompt answer, I do not really know this option in SME, can you provide me more details or a guide to see how can I use this command.

P.S. I would like to recover all information to another external usb disk, before use any command.

Again many thanks for your support.

Eviny

Title: Re: Read the SME server harddisk from another Live CD Linux Distribution
Post by: Stefano on September 06, 2010, 07:47:20 PM

plug in external hd
insert SME's cd
boot your server from cdrom
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sme rescue
at boot prompt
follow on screen instructions.. be sure to mount (at least in read-only) your SME installation

now you should have access to your data;
create a dir in /mnt and mount usbdisk there

copy your data