Data recovery from a hard disk crash
Hi, One of the hard disks on our cluster crashed a few days back. Some of the data on the disk hasn't been backed up. It's about a month's work. I Googled for data recovery software and found some stuff. I am mailing to ask the more experienced guys on the list as to what can be done. Any data recovery software that you guys suggest? It would be very helpful indeed if we can recover the data. Guys here are fleecing us to do the recovery. Regards, Chaitanya. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
On 7/29/05 4:45 PM, "Chaitanya Krishna A" <icymist82@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
One of the hard disks on our cluster crashed a few days back. Some of the data on the disk hasn't been backed up. It's about a month's work. I Googled for data recovery software and found some stuff. I am mailing to ask the more experienced guys on the list as to what can be done.
Any data recovery software that you guys suggest? It would be very helpful indeed if we can recover the data. Guys here are fleecing us to do the recovery.
Regards, Chaitanya.
Let the pros do it. http://www.drivesavers.com/ I swear by them. They did a drive for me...wasn't cheap, but they got every bit off the thing. You can't do better. I also see other server lists use them... Check the company insurance. Ours covered it except for the deductible. -- Thanks, George If there is no monitor, it's an Apple ASIP server. If there is a dusty stool sitting in front of it, it's a Linux server If there is a comfortable chair and several coffee cup stains in front of it, it's an NT server. If no one can remember where the server is, it's a Novell server. If there is a high paid network admin contractor, comfortable chair, several coffee cup stains sitting in front of it, it's a Apple OSX server.
Hi, Well, thanks for the suggestion. But in the situation I am in it's just not possible. Any other suggestions guys? Regards, Chaitanya. ps : I am sitting in India. --- "suse_gasjr4wd@mac.com" <suse_gasjr4wd@mac.com> wrote:
On 7/29/05 4:45 PM, "Chaitanya Krishna A" <icymist82@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
One of the hard disks on our cluster crashed a few days back. Some of the data on the disk hasn't been backed up. It's about a month's work. I Googled for data recovery software and found some stuff. I am mailing to ask the more experienced guys on the list as to what can be done.
Any data recovery software that you guys suggest? It would be very helpful indeed if we can recover the data. Guys here are fleecing us to do the recovery.
Regards, Chaitanya.
Let the pros do it.
I swear by them. They did a drive for me...wasn't cheap, but they got every bit off the thing. You can't do better.
I also see other server lists use them...
Check the company insurance. Ours covered it except for the deductible.
-- Thanks, George
If there is no monitor, it's an Apple ASIP server. If there is a dusty stool sitting in front of it, it's a Linux server If there is a comfortable chair and several coffee cup stains in front of it, it's an NT server. If no one can remember where the server is, it's a Novell server. If there is a high paid network admin contractor, comfortable chair, several coffee cup stains sitting in front of it, it's a Apple OSX server.
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On Friday 29 July 2005 18:11, Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:
Hi,
Well, thanks for the suggestion. But in the situation I am in it's just not possible.
Any other suggestions guys?
Depending on the type of set-up you have (you only said, "One of the hard disks on our cluster crashed a few days back."), you could try dcfldd for imaging the disk and The Sleuthkit[Autopsy] with foremost for actual file recovery. http://dcfldd.sourceforge.net/ http://www.sleuthkit.org/ http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ HTH -- Christopher Shanahan
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