Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:17:23 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Madhusudan Singh <singh.madhusudan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disaster recovery ? Message-ID: <8CB24265-4C77-46AC-9F5D-A171CA68CAFC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200508301108.40216.singh.madhusudan@gmail.com> References: <200508301108.40216.singh.madhusudan@gmail.com>
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On Aug 30, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Madhusudan Singh wrote: > I had a working FreeBSd 5.3 RELEASE server running postfix and zope > until > last night. When I checked it in the morning, it had a bunch of > "ad4 ... > UNRECOVERABLE ERROR" messages on it. Upon a reboot, it complains it > cannot > find /boot/loader (error 16). Last week, it had shut down without any > apparent reason but came up upon reboot. Sounds like the hard disk is > fried. Its a new server (just 5 months old or so). > > How do I recover what was on the partitions ? You can try getting a new disk and using dd with the ignore error flag, and see how much data you can get back. You can also pay somewhere between $200 and $2000 for a professional data recovery company to try to revive the missing data... -- -Chuck
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