[linux-lvm] waah waah - disaster recovery

[Paul Pianta]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 20:45 +0000, Rosenstrauch, David wrote:
> 
> > Rosenstrauch, David wrote:
> > 
> > > Basically just dd the data from the partition on the bad 
> > disk to the partition
> > > on the new disk (e.g., "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb3").
> > 
> > dd_rescue.
> > 
> > http://freshmeat.net/projects/ddrescue/
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
> 
> 
> Wow - cool util!  Wish I had known about this a week ago!  :-)

Oooooooh yeah - cool util! It just saved my ass - I have managed to
recover everything that I needed by doing a
'dd_rescue /dev/hdc /dev/hda' while running the systemRescueCd live CD.

Thanks again all for your excellent tips :)

pantz