Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

I can't upload the pictures to show you what I'm talking about. Let me know when that is resolved and I'll post the pictures.

I've been working from my backup all week-end and I need some help figuring some things out. I've got a directory I'm trying to recover. Here's a picture:

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The ones with no marks recover fine. The ones with red checks are directories that have been damaged. Here's a picture of what a ...

Rather than waste a lot of other people's time, I submitted a Tech Support request. I'm pretty sure the problem is that I'm using a 63 sector stripe size, and the software doesn't support anything but powers of 2K for the raid stripe size. I played around with a couple of different stripe set ...

I think you missed my point - I did that. It worked fine. I was able to recover about 30% of the files on the drive that way. There are another 30% in "$Inodexxxxxx" files, and the other 40% are not there at all.

The problem is that, if this ever happens again or for other people that don't have a ...

OK - I've been puttering around with the program ever since I bought it. If I image copy the file system onto a 1 Terabyte drive, I can do all kinds of things with it. The problem is that it takes about 20 hours to copy the entire RAID array onto an image drive.

I'd like to be able to use your ...

Posting to my own reply....

I've written a one line shell script that grabs all of the file names (strings -tx /dev/wd2f | grep '200[789]...' > files) that meet my search criteria out of the file systems with byte offsets into the file system. After I get them all into a file, I'll write a PERL ...