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I probably ought to be ashamed that now that a crash as occured the
rsnapshot data are unavailable as well. Therefor I would like to ask for
help.

On my opensuse 10.3 system there is an external hd connected by usb in
which the rsnapshot data are stored. Normally I can see the data with
the file manager konqueror. I upgraded opensuse from 10.2 to 10.3
trusting that the home directory stored in the external device could be
reunited to the then newly installed 10.3 system. But ... for some
unknown reason there are no data anymore visible with konqueror. In my
panic I sent the external hard disc to a data recovery company which
after some time said that there is no hope of recovering. They
summarized their results by (translated from German):

Severe structural problem.
All (!) data visible, but data corruption. No
data recovery.

Pondering about this I have the following question:

- Could the failiure when trying to recover the data
be related to the special kind of data organisation
within rsnapshot - no data, but hard links to data - ?

- If so: is there a possibility to still recover the
data?

Hoping

A. Mehl
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Albrecht,

have you tried the USB harddisk on another computer especially a Suse 10.2
system? Have you tried a fsck before the mount? What does the mount command
display when you mount the probably corrupted hard disk.

Till


Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 09:58:11 schrieb Albrecht Mehl:
I probably ought to be ashamed that now that a crash as occured the
rsnapshot data are unavailable as well. Therefor I would like to ask for
help.

On my opensuse 10.3 system there is an external hd connected by usb in
which the rsnapshot data are stored. Normally I can see the data with
the file manager konqueror. I upgraded opensuse from 10.2 to 10.3
trusting that the home directory stored in the external device could be
reunited to the then newly installed 10.3 system. But ... for some
unknown reason there are no data anymore visible with konqueror. In my
panic I sent the external hard disc to a data recovery company which
after some time said that there is no hope of recovering. They
summarized their results by (translated from German):

Severe structural problem.
All (!) data visible, but data corruption. No
data recovery.

Pondering about this I have the following question:

- Could the failiure when trying to recover the data
be related to the special kind of data organisation
within rsnapshot - no data, but hard links to data - ?

- If so: is there a possibility to still recover the
data?

Hoping

A. Mehl



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Hallo, Albrecht,

Du (mehl) meintest am 13.02.08:

Severe structural problem.
All (!) data visible, but data corruption. No
data recovery.

Strange.
If the data is visible, you can see all the rsnapshot data in the same
way as the original data.
"rsnapshot" only copies the data.
Perhaps you use another file system on the backup hd - but the recovery
company has told all data is visible ...

What may happen (or have happened) is putting another filesystem onto
the external drive (p.e. vfat over ext2). But every qualified recovery
company should detect this error and should repair it.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

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