[rescue] Re: Help! New File System

[Robert Novak]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Sonja [iso-8859-1] Ke_ler-Fackler wrote:

> Hallo
>
> we are using solaris 8 an we did a great mistake. We build a new
> filesystem although we have an existing filesystem on this device. So we
> lost the inodes and we can't use the data on the raid.
>
> Knows anybody how to rebuild the old inodes, so we can use our files????

For the record, this is probably better aimed at sunhelp @ sunhelp.org, as
it hasn't much to do with rescuing old hardware.

But since it is a great mistake, your best bet is to restore from the tape
backups. Probability is probably low that you can recover the old stuff,
especially if data has been written to to the new filesystem, unless you
send it to a recovery service. That's expensive and can be time consuming,
and I don't even know any non-USA recovery services so you'd have to find
one first.

--Rob
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