Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:22:34 -0500 From: "Michael Hawkins" <cypheros@gmail.com> To: "Enno Davids" <enno.davids@metva.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk recovery tools... Message-ID: <9a7bbc700801171722g560cbd09j8c4528a6133bf744@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080117224841.GA1162@bashful.metva.com.au> References: <20080117224841.GA1162@bashful.metva.com.au>
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>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 <enno.davids@metva.com.au> 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" >
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