[Novalug] [OT] recovery tools

Miguel Gonzalez Castaños miguel_3_gonzalez@yahoo.es
Sun Oct 28 11:11:39 EDT 2007


We are uzing a tool called Zar and We are getting some data but some 
data is fine, and other files are damaged

The nice thing of this tool is that you can clone the partition (it is 
showing as unallocated) in other external drive and then try to recover 
in the external drive instead on  the server

But after this data recovery tools, We are going to try photorec (it 
comes with the rescuecd live cd) and maybe spinrite as you say.

Right now We are just focusing on getting the critical data that We need 
to go on, later We will focus on getting as much data as we can.

Thanks for your comments guys :)

Miguel

Dave Ashby escribió:
> Steve Gibson has talked about this recently on his SecurityNow! 
> podcast. Bottom line is don't use SpinRite on a RAID array. RAID 
> controllers "mask" drive errors that SpinRite is trying to identify 
> and fix.
>
> You *can* safely unplug disks, plug them into your (non-RAID) drive 
> controller, and then boot into the SpinRite LiveCD and do a repair. 
> SpinRite operates at such a low level that it won't mess up the 
> partition table/file structure. A number of folks have reported 
> success using this method, but it does require more fiddling with the 
> hardware than some people may be comfortable with.
>
> Hope this helps.
> -dave
>
> On 10/27/07, *Anthony Soucek* <monkeywrenchit@gmail.com 
> <mailto:monkeywrenchit@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     premature exclamaition...If it's a raid system, you may have trouble
>     getting it to see the drives since it runs on freeDos.  I doubt you
>     could use it on a raid array.  Check the details on the site.
>
>     On 10/27/07, Anthony Soucek <monkeywrenchit@gmail.com
>     <mailto:monkeywrenchit@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > SPINRITE!
>     >
>     > go to www.grc.com <http://www.grc.com>
>     >
>     > for $100, if your hard drive still spins, this software will recover
>     > the data, linux, microsoft, tivo, whatever.
>     >
>     > On 10/26/07, Miguel Gonzalez Castaños <
>     miguel_3_gonzalez@yahoo.es <mailto:miguel_3_gonzalez@yahoo.es>> wrote:
>     > > Hi,
>     > >
>     > >   Sorry for the off-topic. Our All-in-One Storage 600 server
>     has been
>     > > doing weird things after a cache module replacement and two
>     partitions
>     > > are showing as unallocate. We are looking for tools that would
>     helps us
>     > > to recover as much as we can. We are currently runnig disk
>     internals
>     > > tools, and we get some data, but seems to be old (from July).
>     > >
>     > >   If you know of any tool, please let me know back channel (or
>     online,
>     > > whatever you think is the best but i don't want to upset anyone).
>     > >
>     > >   I also have tried rescuecd, and testdisk shows that
>     recognizes the
>     > > partition, but we can't get any file when we try. We haven't
>     tried the
>     > > advanced options yet.
>     > >
>     > >   Thanks,
>     > >
>     > >    Miguel
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
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