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sauergeek ([personal profile] sauergeek) wrote2007-10-14 11:52 pm
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Data recovery

I have a deceased server that was running OpenBSD. The hardware will no longer POST. I've not had any particular trouble with the disks, and I'd like to salvage ~20 gb of data from them. Does anyone have a SCSI-capable box running BSD (probably any sort would do, though OpenBSD would be ideal) that I could borrow for long enough to pull the data I want off these disks?
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[identity profile] dr-memory.livejournal.com 2007-10-15 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
I'm 99% sure that linux and macosx will also read *bsd-flavor UFS filesystems well enough for you to use them to salvage data, so if there are no offers of bsd boxes for you to borrow locally, it might be easiest to buy a $10 used SCSI card off of ebay and throw it into a random PC with a knoppix boot CD.

[identity profile] pir.livejournal.com 2007-10-15 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
If he's got a scsi card and a random PC then he could presumably boot the OpenBSD installation that's on the disks... or could boot from the FreeBSD live CD.

[identity profile] sauergeek.livejournal.com 2007-10-16 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hrm, I was expecting that Linux would not handle *BSD file systems, but I'll definitely check into it. I have a non-SCSI Linux box readily available; a SCSI card is easy enough to come by.
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