Backup & Recovery (new posts)

Recover from 'hard' reset?: Recover from 'hard' reset?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:50:56 +0000

Hi,

I'm trying to help a friend recover data on a WD sharepace NAS. It's configured as RAID 0 and an hard reset was done on it (which set to factory defaults and apparently wiped the drives). Is there any way to recover this? I know the data is still there on the drives but how do I get it?

I've recovered single HDDs before but never recovered a RAID set. I'm also hoping that setting the drives back up will just restore it to it's previous state (data and all) but this is possibly cluthing at straws.

Cheers,

Tim

MBR not accessible: Re: MBR not accessible

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:20:58 +0000

Did some detective work. The MBR record on my disk only varies from the SDA_MBR files provided on the Backup Images page by a couple of bytes, both changed from the same value to another value. So it doesn't look like my MBR has been corrupted.

Has anyone seen similar behaviour and have a solution for what I'm seeing. Since I've had to rebuild everything from scratch once already this year, I'm loathe to try re-imaging the partitions and starting again.

To summarise, the box powers up, responds to ping requests, but nothing else seems to be working.

Thanks.

How to copy files? - HD plugged to a PC via SATA: Re: How to copy files? - HD plugged to a PC via SATA

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:41:04 +0000

I dont know exactly what to do, but my first idea is do put both in your pc, run linux and try to assamble the partitions via mdadm (http://linuxwiki.de/mdadm). theres also a command which check, which partitions belong together if you dont know it, but i cant remember. After that i think linux will mount the partitions an you can access them.so try to search about that.

Recover WITHOUT deleting sda4: Re: Recover WITHOUT deleting sda4

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:33:18 +0000

Thanks for your advise, hope this will work out for me too. I`ll try the next days, just spend a lot of time to rescue data, but cause of the fuckin raid you cant mount the partition.

Almost Recovered: Re: Almost Recovered

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:25:20 +0000

I figured it out.

I logged into the terminal as superuser and used chmod to change the permissions.

Almost Recovered: Almost Recovered

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:16:50 +0000

Hello All,

I had a 1TB MyBook that failed to power up. After reading all the great HowTo's, I decided to use Ubuntu to do a recovery of the data on the two hard drives.

I installed Ubuntu on a spare hard drive that I had, plugged both of the MyBook hard drives into my desktop motherboard, and powered-up.

After loading the mdadm package into Ubuntu and after rebooting, Ubuntu showed the two drives and all the RAID partition information. I did all of this using the package manager in the GUI.

Ubuntu showed a 992GB Linear Array (/dev/md4) and I sucessfully mounted the drve. Opening the drive the following folders were listed…

lost+found
DATA <— I created this folder using the MyBook interface before it failed
GHOSTIMAGES <— I created this folder using the MyBook interface before it failed
PUBLIC

However, when trying to open DATA folder , Ubuntu reports that "You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents"

I'm not a familar with Ubuntu and I thinking all I need to do is change the permissions on the folder. I look at the DATA folder properties to change permissions but Ubuntu will not let me change them.

Any help on changing permissions on the folder???

John

MBR not accessible: MBR not accessible

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:21:13 +0000

Almost a year to the day since my previous MBWE died, the replacement has gone the same way. It's a 500Gb blue-light.

The disk powers on, the lights are up but it doesn't respond to any services which means ssh, samba and http are all gone, so I can't run the firmware hacks. The box does respond to ping requests however.

I have managed to remove the disks and mount them to linux and the partition contents look OK, so I'm working on the assumption that the MBR might be corrupt; that the ping response is being provided by the network controller before the disk needs to boot?

Question: should it be possible to just copy the MBR image provided in the Backup Images page into first 512 bytes of the disk? Without damaging the rest of the disk contents?

Alternatively, any other theories on what might cause this behaviour?

Thank in advance

Need a MBWE 1TB Image - PLEASE HELP !!: Re: Need a MBWE 1TB Image - PLEASE HELP !!

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:27:47 +0000

FeaturePacks Manager
http://highlevelbits.free.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=67&lang=en

Need a MBWE 1TB Image - PLEASE HELP !!: Need a MBWE 1TB Image - PLEASE HELP !!

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:30:48 +0000

Please help guys!

I have a MBWE with 1 1TB hard drive which is damaged. I replaced the HD with a brand new WD 1TB HD and need an image to bring it back to life (preferibly in acronis TIB format)
I am not a unix person…

Can somebody please help me ???

Complete Fresh Backup of MyBook World 500GB: Re: Complete Fresh Backup of MyBook World 500GB

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:16:21 +0000

I need to restore SDA4 for the MyBook World Edition 1TB (not 500GB) with permissions. How do I do this?

Please help...no ssh access: Re: Please help...no ssh access

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:04:01 +0000

Hello TeinturMan
I am in a such case (No access to SSH) i have the webserver https://:3210 enabled
and i can log on there….

Can you please help me ??

Best practices: Re: Best practices

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Hi bluerings,

the easiest is to use the MybookClone FeaturePack
it is a 5 Click procedure .
check http://highlevelbits.free.fr, in the Bluering section…

Just note that the copy may take up to 3 days…

Best practices: Best practices

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:52:56 +0000

Hiya, I'm planning to replace my mybook's capacity from 500GB in RAID1 to 1TB in RAID1.

What I want to do is just simply transfer the current system to two new 1TB discs.

I have many-many ideas how to proceed, but I thought if you have any best practices, ideas how it could be done in the most comfortable way I'd appreciate it.

thanks, br

Backup images for WD Mybook WE II (2TB): Re: Backup images for WD Mybook WE II (2TB)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:33:38 +0000

You are the man!!! Thank you very much. My MyBook WE II is now working again.

Recovery advice needed: Re: Recovery advice needed

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:22:35 +0000

I have a MBWE 1TB blue ring mybook that won't boot. Likely some kind of corruption. Anyhow, with the above driver I can see the folders on the hard drive just fine (now in a USB enclosure for the time being). I would like to get at my files so that I can copy them off the mybook drive but am not having any luck finding them. Where are they stored and how can I copy them to my Vista machine? I also have a knoppix live cd that makes the hard drive accessible but same problem…can't find my files. Clue please? Thanks.

Recover of data folders / files: Re: Recover of data folders / files

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:23:56 +0000

if somebody is interested i used Ufsexplorer to recover data partition
i could recover around 80% of my data.

HELP I've deleted some directories now i can't connect with SSH: HELP I've deleted some directories now i can't connect with SSH

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:11:47 +0000

I tried to follow the step to recover GCC and foolishly deleted directories without backing them up first. Now i can't connect to the NAS. My shares are still there but i'm worried if i reboot the nas it wont boot. I wondering if the hard reset will restore the OS to the latest firmware version and also restore the missing directories.

If anyone has done a hard reset can you tell if this is the case?

Cheers

Recover of data folders / files: Recover of data folders / files

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:04:27 +0000

Hi all,

Somehow all the data within my 3 of 5 shares were deleted, dont ask my how, i have no clue how this had happened.
The root shares (100_Movies, 200_Music, 300_Pictures) are there but all data inside the shares are gone.
So no technical defect, simply deleted.
Is there a way how i can restore the folder and files? I have connected already the HD to the PC and tried DiskInternals LinuxRecovery Tool,
but did not find anything that looks like my movies.

I'm no real linux expert, but could it be that only the "index" is destroyed and is there a command to check this.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

My complete movie collection is gone…

Thanks, c0ldsun

linear raid /dev/md4 missing space after rescued mybookworld 2 blue ring: linear raid /dev/md4 missing space after rescued mybookworld 2 blue ring

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:34:38 +0000

Hello

My english is not very good so dont blame me ;)

I have juste recover my mybook with mbr from rescue procedure and the image files from christoff4444. The other mbr fils didn't boot and the image files from rescue procedure work fine too.

But ! When I make or the systeme make a linear raid the total space see with mdadm -Q and -D is +- 748Gb and the space in /proc/mdstat is +-2980Gb. I m using 2x 1500Gb seagate drive partionned and formated like the procedure of christoff4444 and i have try all methode to make it. But my effor were fruitless and all the time I get a linear raid with +-748Gb.

For now I have mounted /dev/sda4 in /shares/internal and /dev/sdb4 in /shares/internal2 created PUBLIC, PUBLIC2 and configured to use it as share.

I guess for a driver issue or maybe a file to edit but i m not linux expert. If someone can show me the way to have a linear raid with all disk space :)

Agui

My Book World Edition II 4TB broken!: My Book World Edition II broken!

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:24:57 +0000

Hello. I've bought recently a My Book World Edition II 4 TB.
I've used it as 2 TB raid 1.
I've broken it when trying to instal some optware applications.
I've searched some solutions on the forum. I've managed to access the 4th partition wit a live linux cd.
The problem is, I need to access the 1st partition so I could repair the boot.
Every time I try it, it doesn't recognize the file system type?!?
Can someone explain how to access the others 3 partitions and not only the last one?
Is there a Backup Image for the 4Tb version I could use to restore the 1st partition?

Thank's in advance,
Odim