[ale] File recovery

[Beddingfield, Allen]

Oh, ouch.  If it zapped all the partitions and installed over, I don't think there is going to be any way to recover.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
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VM were not on backup. Local snapshots were on disk. Supposed to be demo and testbed stuff but apparently not all was disposable.

On Jan 5, 2014 2:51 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu<mailto:allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
What type of backups do you have? Whole VM backups or file level? I assume they were on a datastore on local disk?


From: Jim Kinney [mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com<mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>]
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 01:12 PM Central Standard Time
To: Atlanta User Group (E-mail) <ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>
Subject: [ale] File recovery


Haven't had to do this in a while so I'm looking for ideas.

VMware ESX host rebooted. The bios was set to pxeboot. The pxeboot process it picked up installed Fedora19 over the ESX.

sigh

Looking for recommendations for tool chains for VM recovery. I'm not expecting much success but trying to balance reconstruct time vs recovery time.

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