rbroberts Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Sigh. I had a config backup. On my laptop whose hard drive failed last week. Creating a new backup didn't make it onto my mental list of things to do in recovering from that. I may have a copy of the config in a backup, but that would be...on the unraid server. I probably could have gotten a copy of the config directory if I had realized what a couple of other problems indicated. I first had a few commands (from the shell) tell me there were shared libs missing. After poking around a bit, I made the mistake of rebooting the server. While I got the splash screen about rebooting into my choice of modes, and it even gave me a login prompt, it didn't ask me for a password, which was wrong. At that point, I shutdown, pulled the thumb drive to inspect it on my windows laptop. Windows pops up a file explorer window then immediately asks me to insert a disk into drive D. Plugging the thumb drive into an Ubuntu laptop generates a whole lot of nothing; it acts like it's not there. I'm reading through this post and want to find out if that's still the procedure to recovering my data and get a new key. Quote Link to comment
rbroberts Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 FWIW, the server still boots off that USB thumb drive, but I'm not sure what is there. /boot/config has a machine-id file and ssh config dir, nothing else 😞 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Do you know the disk assignments and/or have/posted any recent diagnostics? Quote Link to comment
rbroberts Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 8 hours ago, JorgeB said: Do you know the disk assignments and/or have/posted any recent diagnostics? Unfortunately, not that I can find. But that did remind me, I have crashplan-pro running and checking there, I do have a backup of the config directory. I guess I forgot that I had actually planned ahead 🙂 But... in the other good news category, I've "discovered" the testdisk utility. After using dd to get a raw image, I've mounted the USB drive in my ubuntu laptop and was able to copy the backup boot sector onto the primary and repair the drive. There's a moderate amount of corruption. Depending on the state of my crashplan-pro backup, I may or may not lose the dockers and VMs. Quote Link to comment
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