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Recovering Lost Data

Articles and Tips: qna

01 Jan 2002


Q.

My server's hard disk crashed and my file system, volumes, or disk partitions were damaged or destroyed. On the traditional file system volumes, I ran the VREPAIR utility with the following entries set to ON:

  • Purge= ON

  • Write All Directory and FAT Entries Out To Disk=ON

I also rebuilt the NSS volumes, but VREPAIR did not completely fix the volumes. Can Novell help me recover my data, volumes, or disk partitions?

Crashed in Cousco

A.

Dear Crashed: I'm afraid not. Novell does not have any secret or internal tools more powerful than VREPAIR or NSS Rebuild, nor do we have any way of recovering your lost data. If we had any better repair technology than we already provide in these utilities, we would have included it in them.

If your backups are invalid or are too old, your only hope is to contact a data rescue service, such as OnTrack (http://www.ontrack.com), ESS Data Recovery (http://www.savemyfiles.com) or Data Recovery Services (http://www.datarecovery.com.au), companies that do this kind of thing for a living.

* Originally published in Novell AppNotes


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