On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:57:49AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
Greetings
I have a large system with a fair number of resources which has just come home from the hospital (computer) when I had a disk drive fail abruptly.
1.The tech tells me that the hard drive can be accessed. How do I do a low level transfer to another hard drive? (This would mean that I would have empty sectors but there is some information that I would like to get.)
'dd' is the usual answer. But, on a failing disk, it may really kill it. I've been told that freezing your disk helps with recovery.
2. The drive was my 'operating system' drive. That meant that here is where I kept my 14 VirtualBox machines. (One was my business record keeping (accounting) and that is the one that I want real bad but its only 16 months of data so it can be redone but its painful!)
How do I set up the hard drive so that files can be moved to my RAID array (which should be just fine) - - - or should I? Should I be setting up this drive as it was before but just looking for a way to do backups? As I understand it operating systems on RAID isn't nice - - - or is it?
Well, I don't recommend changing your setup, when you're doing recovery. Do the recovery first. Afterwards, you can use RAID for OS. I think, most distro still ask for separate boot partition, eg. /boot as ext4 for MBR setup, and of course /boot/efi as fat32 for UEFI setup. And, do backup.
I am looking for something that doesn't crap out so completely. I understand I should have had backups but I wasn't able to get the shared folder stuff working so that I could seamlessly transfer stuff to my main array. That would also be a viable option if someone can tell me how to cudgel VirtualBox into submission.
Questions welcomed.
TIA
Dee
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