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Date:      Fri, 07 Jun 2019 09:49:48 +1000
From:      Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
To:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS...
Message-ID:  <70d5e0d3-c188-7f06-cf53-702d565fd481@sorbs.net>
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Michelle Sullivan wrote:
>> On 02 May 2019, at 03:39, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 01/05/2019 15:53, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
>>> Paul Mather wrote:
>>>>> On Apr 30, 2019, at 11:17 PM, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Been there done that though with ext2 rather than UFS..  still got all my data back... even though it was a nightmare..
>>>>
>>>> Is that an implication that had all your data been on UFS (or ext2:) this time around you would have got it all back?  (I've got that impression through this thread from things you've written.) That sort of makes it sound like UFS is bulletproof to me.
>>> Its definitely not (and far from it) bullet proof - however when the data on disk is not corrupt I have managed to recover it - even if it has been a nightmare - no structure - all files in lost+found etc... or even resorting to r-studio in the even of lost raid information etc..
>> Yes but you seem to have done this with ZFS too, just not in this particularly bad case.
>>
> There is no r-studio for zfs or I would have turned to it as soon as this issue hit.
>
>
>
So as an update, this Company: http://www.klennet.com/ produce a ZFS 
recovery tool: https://www.klennet.com/zfs-recovery/default.aspx and 
following several code changes due to my case being an 'edge case' the 
entire volume (including the zvol - which I previously recovered as it 
wasn't suffering from the metadata corruption) and all 34 million files 
is being recovered intact with the entire directory structure.  Its only 
drawback is it's a windows only tool, so I built 'windows on a stick' 
and it's running from that.  The only thing I had to do was physically 
pull the 'spare' out as the spare already had data on it from being 
previously swapped in and it confused the hell out of the algorithm that 
detects the drive order.

Regards,

Michelle

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/




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