Problems with home server

[Bryan O'Neal]

I have backups on a script but I have no monitoring of said script. My
best guess is that they were at least 24 hours old and at most 2 weeks
old. I can get to my data off via ssh (the only service working
perfectly) and drop in a new hard drive and rebuild. My data will go
unencrypted for a few hours and it will take a few more to set
everything back up the way I want it. I dumped enough crap data to fit
on the two externals I have so it should not be much of an issue. Just
time annoying. BTW the current FS always indicated 100% used on a df
but the Total GB and GB used clearly indicate that I have (now) quite
a bit of space available. Hope that a low level format helps fix any
issue with this drive. Hate to loose that much space. But I have
already picked up a 1.5 TB Segate from Frys for $120 so I'm alright
even if the drive is slightly toasted.

Hope to get enough cash in the next few years to builds a nice file
server with 12 TB in RAID 01. That should last five years or so. Be
able to start ripping movies and set up myth to handle my DVR'ing, not
to mention the many photos of my little girl that are currently
consuming so much space on my current file server :)

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Ed <plug at 0x1b.com> wrote:
> Are you doing nightly backups? I know who does...  :(
>
> First - image that disk, set the image up as a loopback mount and work
> on that - with any luck you can get the encrypted partition to open in
> LVM, if so - get what you can out of it.
> then look into dd, ddrescue and dd_rescue - using them on an encrypted
> LVM mount gets complicated as support varies.
> for some reason Foremost comes to mind, but I think Testdisk is
> better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testdisk
> Testdisk has a habit of going off the end of a file system, it loops
> back to /.  So, if you pull a terabyte off a 500gig drive, that just
> means you have to walk the tree manually.
>
> good luck - and just be happy it wasn't a fakeraid mirror..
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