CentOS Broken After VMWare ESXi RAID Failure

[AvocadosGuac]

Hey Guys,

 

Disclaimer: I have no working backups for this system, so don't bother asking. It was stupid, and i'm already mad as is. (Sorry if that came off as rude)

 

Anyways, i have a broken CentOS 6.9 Machine.

I have the LVM File, could be corrupted, i'm not sure. I can get into a shell file, when i boot from centos 6.9 install media but the recovery tool is no help.

Anyways, does anyone know any shell commands that will allow me rebuild the filesystem or grab the one SQL database i need???

 

 

Thanks!

[Electronics Wizardy]

SO is this a vm?

 

Backups????

 

How did the raid fail? What raid config?

 

Data recovery service might be usefull here.

[AvocadosGuac]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

SO is this a vm?

 

Backups????

 

How did the raid fail? What raid config?

 

Data recovery service might be usefull here.

Yes this was a VM,

 

No backups.

 

Raid 5 FAIL, had to rebuild it onto another drive which took more than 36 hours

 

 

Im hoping i can get a solution here, but i guess the next step is to call up some recovery places.

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 minutes ago, Jrock said:

Yes this was a VM,

 

No backups.

 

Raid 5 FAIL, had to rebuild it onto another drive which took more than 36 hours

 

 

Im hoping i can get a solution here, but i guess the next step is to call up some recovery places.

So what happened to the array? When you did the rebuild was all the data intact?

 

How was the array made? what raid card?

 

 

 

 

[AvocadosGuac]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

So what happened to the array? When you did the rebuild was all the data intact?

 

How was the array made? what raid card?

 

 

 

 

Its an older Dell Poweredge 1950 and i believe it's a perc i6 or something along those lines

 

Yeah WeRecoverData.com is saying anywhere between $5000-$25000, for a couple months of entries thats a no-go

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Jrock said:

Its an older Dell Poweredge 1950 and i believe it's a perc i6 or something along those lines

 

Yeah WeRecoverData.com is saying anywhere between $5000-$25000, for a couple months of entries thats a no-go

If you need the data thats probably your best option.

 

Otherwise, make a copy and play around with the file.

 

What happened during the rebuild? was there an error? 

[AvocadosGuac]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

If you need the data thats probably your best option.

 

Otherwise, make a copy and play around with the file.

 

What happened during the rebuild? was there an error? 

Nope, the raid card said it rebuilt successfully.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Jrock said:

Nope, the raid card said it rebuilt successfully.

Try the lvm image into a datarecovery program.

[AvocadosGuac]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try the lvm image into a datarecovery program.

Would you recommend any? I havent really been able to find any

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Jrock said:

Would you recommend any? I havent really been able to find any

 

give photrec a shot, but a database will be  a pain to hut for.

 

Can you access the lvm?

[AvocadosGuac]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

give photrec a shot, but a database will be  a pain to hut for.

 

Can you access the lvm?

I have the LVM copied to my local machine, after spending hours trying to figure out how to enable ssh on vmware to do it...

 

Thanks for the recommendation for photrec, ill try it out now.