From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 01:49:54 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 7BE1B16A417 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:49:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cypheros@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.240]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 250BB13C46E for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cypheros@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so225937anc.13 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:49:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=A7S5WfbGVIl+tGXCZuFLoXJJ8xMrd7rEbVY2sI73imc=; b=Mch5uXX/vpMigaVpUfyB/brM+nWQr41Bo5WdPte/9OAboXY9KkbU0WJn/0OqO8FtohvmbbPLb8xuoI0Kp+WO281Wl5Uh5o4DG0H5eoNcDl3NipRIxZTAjhRPJdYxZ8Gnt4HBPL99YJpznNMJtFxkbMrfQJv96QkUCjE5FQt69Y8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FT4b4LOnuNl6w7AlzMrDY/boS5G4a2sQLprbnpbCBIp7hNsZ7/rw1ZbJkSkqzQJBihxo4uGsiVuoO0Ba9dWuuB0LZ9PrjezzD2DuYbhZCCY+3Hab9G8ax7Yg5Dv75HGLriuo1i4Q6xsydZX1v/DcXeicuswZi2EG1rVt/bZng0M= Received: by 10.101.68.19 with SMTP id v19mr5737287ank.104.1200619354916; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:22:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.57.20 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:22:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9a7bbc700801171722g560cbd09j8c4528a6133bf744@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:22:34 -0500 From: "Michael Hawkins" To: "Enno Davids" In-Reply-To: <20080117224841.GA1162@bashful.metva.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080117224841.GA1162@bashful.metva.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk recovery tools... 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: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:49:54 -0000 >From professional experience as a data recovery technician, I can tell you that ufs2 drives are among the hardest to recover from after a format. So far the best applications that I have found for recovering data in a situation like this are testdisk and Easy Recovery Professional (by Kroll Ontrack). Obviously the ideal situation would be to get your data back in its original form, so I would try testdisk first. If that fails, however, you are going to have to use ERP (which cost money) to do a RAW recovery. Please note, however, that if you perform a RAW recovery,you will NOT recover the intact filestructure, but instead, a set of folders with your files, and the files will be renamed 'Fil001' followed by the extension. I hope this helps, Cypheros On 1/17/08, Enno Davids wrote: > Guys, > > moving disks from an old server to a new one I suffered from a moment of > brain fade last night and newfs'ed a drive I shouldn't have. One of that > new crop that is so large you won't have an adequate backup for it... :( > > So, just wondering if there are any disk recovery tools that might be able > to find whats left of the files or some portion thereof. My guess is that > things like the indirect blocks live on in the data area and some portion > of what was there might be recoverable to a greater or lesser degree... > > > Thanks in advance, > > Enno. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >