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| It's a Dell PowerVault - it was configured as software RAID 5, then all
of the drives were grouped together with LVM. Last night a Dell
technician plugged a cable into the wrong spot and then attempted a RAID
5 hardware configuration without asking anyone, so we lost our partition
table. Dell says it's unrecoverable. I'm grasping at straws in a last
ditch effort here. I don't want to format this server and start over if
there's any hope of recovery.
Geek wrote:
> This isn't quite an install question, but it's kind of related.
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> Our email server has a processor check on it. Dell came out to install
> a new processor. In one cascading catastrophe after another, we ended
> up with a server that wouldn't boot. The Dell technician told us that
> we would lose all of the data on our PowerVault storage device. And we
> have no backup (another very long story).
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> Before we go any further, I want to be positive that there isn't some
> way to save the data on the RAID device. This box is running AS 4.0 (or
> it was before the technician hosed the kernel). All of the drives on the
> array were configured as one LVM - software RAID.
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> When we attempt to boot the machine we get "invalid partition table
> /dev/sdb wrong image dd3e". If we boot into recovery mode, we can see
> everything still on the system except for what should be in /usr/local -
> and that's apparently the file system that was created on the array.
>
> Anyone know of anything we can try?
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