From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 21:43:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19972106567B for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:43:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (mail.familycareintl.org [68.167.21.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92088FC1B for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:43:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:27:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9703529@www.fcimail.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Data recovery Thread-Index: AcjbwUrMlH7Z2/sWQ4OKzHe9nJIb6g== From: "Jean-Paul Natola" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Data recovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:43:44 -0000 Hi all, I'm throwing this out to this list because our SNAP drive has a *nix = kernel- One of the folders mysteriously lost a large portion of its data today, I immediately powered down the unit as to prevent further writing to the disks (raid 5)- Is there any tool or utlity you can recommend to try to get this data = back? If memory server *nix does not erase the data , it merely marks as = empty space that can be written to , I think I remember that from school Any and all help is GREATLY appreciated thanks jp