My mirrored drive failed. After replacing the drive, several of the jumboxes restarted. One did not.
I get the message that it's trying dhcp, then I get the message that "Operating system not found."
Is there any way to get the data back. I can see the vmdevice from the vmware server. I can see the data storage file.
Is there any way at all to recover from this?
LAMP jumbox fails after drive crashSubmitted by Jim Heffers on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 11:32am |
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LAMP jumbox fails after drive crash
Attach an Ubuntu live CD to it and see if you can fix/mount the disks, there should be a /dev/sda1 (labeled root), /dev/sda2 (swap) and /dev/sdb1 (labeled storage). If they can't be fixed and mounted that way, then I am unaware of any other way to recover them.
Well, thats not entirely true, if I were truly desperate I would look closely at the disk files themselves (strings, hexeditor, whatever) to see if it looked like they actually still contained data. Its possible that some recovery could be done. The root.hdd is a simple loopback file but the data.vmdk will be a growable vmware disk. I would look for similar stories in the vmware community forums since this problem lies below the JumpBox itself ... or rather do so if you are unable to recover with a live cd as suggested above.
Austin