From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 12 22:53:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA07010 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from temp.harborcom.net (temp.harborcom.net [206.158.4.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA07005 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:53:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (weasel@localhost) by temp.harborcom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA04903; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 01:54:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 01:54:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Bradley Reynolds To: Michael Smith cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Data Recovery In-Reply-To: <199707120252.MAA27497@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I was wondering if someone out there could help me with a > > data recovery problem. It seems that the disklabel on one > > of our scsi drives magically disappeared. > > Do you know the details of the disklabel, ie. which partitions were where? > If so, you can recreate the label fairly painlessly. > Its been tried and didn't work. > If all that's gone is the label, there are not a few FreeBSD hackers who > would be able to recreate it fairly easily; what sort of geographic range > could you ship the drive within? How vital is the data on the disk? > Do you have a Recent Backup? > The recent backup is > 1month old, so we were trying to do this before using that.