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Questions tagged [data-recovery]

Reclamation of deleted or otherwise removed/corrupted data (files)

Reclamation of deleted or otherwise removed/corrupted data (files). The level of complexity of such a task varies from simply "Restoring" a file (from a Recycle Bin) to using advanced tools to analyze the filesystem and rebuild previously deleted/corrupted data.

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How to recover data from a Windows 2003 Server HP StorageWorks Ultrium 448 Backup via Linux?

I have a scenario where I have to recover a backup from an Ultirum 448 tape medium that was made on Windows 2003 server. The only system that I have available for recovery is a Linux server with comparable hardware. Is there a way to use tape…
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Recover Ubuntu after FIO command broke something

I have been working on hard drive performance and ran across this command fio --filename=/dev/sda1 --direct=1 --rw=randwrite --bs=1m --size=5G --numjobs=64 --runtime=300 --group_reporting --name=file1 So the first problem was that after running the…
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CentOS - Accidentally Moved and Removed /home/ folders

I ran (stupidly) these commands: mv ncdu/ /home/* mv ncdu/ /var/* Trying to move the ncdu folder into these directories. And it caused me to remove all my Apache directories in my /home/ folder, except virtfs (cPanel). As you can imagine, It's…
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How to recover deleted root of linux system?

The story: I am using Ubuntu for my website. For a backup plan, I wrote a script. I wanted to mount an external drive, (run through crontab), backup the server, and then umount it, every night. I noticed that through fdisk -l I got: /dev/sda …
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What would be an ideal outsourced/third party offsite backup vault solution?

Looking to find a service that offers rsync or dirvish abilities to do auto backups of my website and all content and databases into something like a data vault. Basically, rather than just a CDN to have an additional place to store files, I would…
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licence file for extra logins on ancient Unix (CLIX) system

I'm helping to sort out an ancient Intergraph 6800 machine at work, running CLIX, a proprietary Unix. Binning the system is not an option. It is a certified safety-critical system that would cost $millions to replace. Please do not post…
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Reverse losetup?

Often people take an image of a hard dive with dd, for example, and then mount the partitions within using kpartx or losetup. It's a common way to make the partitions on an image file mountable and look like a filesystem. I'm wondering if it's…
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Recovering RAID5 array after zeroing wrong superblock

I have a raid5 array on 4 disks, sda1, sdb1, sdd1 and sde1. sdd1 was removed but is a healthy drive. While attempting to re-add it, I accidentally zeroed out the superblock for sdb1. sdb1's data is consistent with sda1 and sde1, just missing it's…
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Almost All Xenserver Logical Volumes Disappeared - Recovery?

We had a hard disc crash of one of two hard discs in a software raid with a LVM on top. The server is running Citrix xenserver. On the hard disk which is still intact, the volume group gets detected well, but only one LV is left. (some hashes…
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Recover data after lvreduce on "/"

I accidentally ran lvreduce on / instead of "/home" on a RHEL 5.9 system that unfortunately had a lot of code that was not backed up, and the system will not boot now obviously. What is the best way to go about trying to recover files from the disk.…
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Mounting encrypted drive/partition on Linux

I have a Laptop, on which the OS has got corrupted and gives a system32\config not found error. To recover my data, I can boot it using Knoppix but I am not able to mount my partition. My partition is NTFS encrypted with McAfee Endpoint encryption.…
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Corrupt XFS header

On my file server I ended up growing the RAID (5) and then I went ahead and deleted and remade the partition holding the XFS filesystem. I used Parted to do this. After parted ran I tried to mount the filesystem but it failed with a bad…
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URGENT: help recovering lost data

I have made a directory: sudo mkdir /ssd, the directory was supposed to be mounted to a raid array called md3. This was done by adding /dev/md3 /ssd auto defaults 0 0 to fstab. Then after a while where I had used the directory, I realized that I…
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Accident from tar -cvf, recover original file?

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to recover filed removed by rm in linux? I'm using a RHEL6 server RAID10 with a ext4 fs, with a volumeGroup (lvm2) VolGroup00 created on a PV /dev/sda5 [831Go]. The logical volume concerned is…
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Recovering/Rebuilding MySQL .FRM, .MY* files from IBDATA1

I recently had an incident in which several MySQL files were wiped out (mostly from WordPress, but also a few of MySQL’s own files). The IBDATA1 file is unaffected, but several .frm are gone as are a few .myi and .myd files. So now I need to find…
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