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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: vadim@e-complex.ru
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: File system failure! URGENT Help needed!
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I suspect that data to both drives was written to both drives.. :-(

My suspicion is that some unknown amount of data was irretrievably lost.

The mantra of sysads is always:
"Do a full backup before changing the hardware"

 On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 vadim@e-complex.ru wrote:

> Hi All!
> 
>   After adding new drive to system 2 of old drives was installed on
>   one cable, and (by fatal flaw) both as slave. And after FBSD is booted it writed
>   identical information onto both of that drivers simultaneously.
>   As a result both filesystems is down. After that fsck was runed...
>   and now very important data is lost.
> 
>   is was from words of the system administrator.
>   
>   Is it possible to recover data? I understand what I give you very
>   small information, but it is all of I know.
> 
>   there is an example:
> 
> newserver# ls /backup/
> Distr           Profiles        all             buh             home            pto             smeta
> newserver# ls -i /backup/
> ls: all: Bad file descriptor
> ls: buh: Bad file descriptor
> ls: smeta: Bad file descriptor
>  6007573 Distr          14348288 Profiles           7936 home           12054848 pto
>   
>   It is obvious, that the part of inodes was lost. How can we restore
>   it? May be, it is possible to recover that by info what is in the
>   files?
> 
> Thank you in advance, and sorry for a bad English.
> 
> Vl.
> 
> 
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