[Linux-cluster] How to re-store my lost data

[Luis Cebamanos]

It is not only data, it is like the system were booting from a 4 years 
time configuration as everything that we have done, included other kind 
of configuration files, just disappeared!!!

On 01/06/2011 07:44 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 02:36 PM, Luis Cebamanos wrote:
>> Is a cluster with 16 nodes and I suspect the problem is in the head node:
>> $cat /proc/version
>> Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.11-smp (geeko at buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5
>> 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Feb 2 20:54:26 GMT 2006
>>
>> df -T
>> Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda2     ext3    33032228  19971720  11382520  64% /
>> tmpfs        tmpfs     1027632         0   1027632   0% /dev/shm
>> /dev/sda1     ext3      124427      9412    108591   8% /boot
>> /dev/sda6     ext3     2063504     33820   1924864   2% /tmp
>> /dev/sda9     ext3   166698068 119970708  38259504  76% /users
>> /dev/sda8     ext3    32250392    966320  29645848   4% /usr/local
>> /dev/sda7     ext3     2063504    901804   1056880  47% /var
>>
>> We were trying to install new hard drives to the system but something
>> that we don't know went wrong and it ended up in almost 4 years of work
>> lost!!!
>> Please, let me know what else can I do to be able to get the data back!
>>
>> Best
> It's a bit late now, but I suppose you don't have backups?
>
> As for how to help, what you provided was only marginally helpful. We
> need a much more extensive overview of your setup and configuration,
> versions, etc. before we can have any idea if we can help.
>
> In the short term, don't try anything yourself without careful thought.
> If the data is very valuable, consider hiring a data recovery firm near
> you who can come and look at your setup.
>