[mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive

Terjesen Jens Peder Jens.Peder.Terjesen at devoteam.com
Tue Sep 15 14:06:48 UTC 2009


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Fra: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] på vegne av James Crow [james at ultratans.com]
Sendt: 15. september 2009 13:57
Til: Discussion about mythtv
Emne: Re: [mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive

James Crow wrote:
> Today I switched from DSL to cable internet. The installer asked me to
> move my computer (MBE) so that he could install a jack behind it. I
> shut everything down and moved the system. When I powered things back
> up I got the horrible click of death from one of my drives. It turns
> out that the drive that had failed is my OS disk. All my recordings
> sit on dedicated spindles. I also had a cron job that backed up my
> database every night and saved it to a directory under /home. Problem
> is that /home was on the same spindle as my /. In hindsight that was
> obviously not the correct place to store the mysql backup, but I don't
> think I realized it when I set things up.
>
> So now I have lost my mythconverg DB as well as its backups. All my
> recordings are intact. Is there any way to rebuild the portion of the
> database that shows the recorded files with just the recordings? I
> have an older db backup from ~ 6 months ago on an older machine so
> that will contain some of the older recorded and then deleted
> programs. I have 1.9TB of recordings and would hate to just end up
> with files I can view through mythvideo instead of through the
> recordings interface.
>
> If anyone has any ideas on possible ways to salvage a drive with the
> click of death I'm open to suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> _______________________________________________
Last night I looked around on my other machines and found a mythconverg
backup from 7/29. I imported that and am off and running. I currently
have 1154MB of recordings that the DB does not know about. I did however
recover much of the history of my watched shows. I am now setting up the
backups to dump to all of my physical drives.

So far the old drive has not shown any sign of life. I think it is safe
to write it off.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Thanks,
James
> _______________________________________________
Have you tried heating the drive with a hair drier?

I have heard a story about a server running 24/7 that would not start after either being shutdown and moved, or after a power outage.
After heating the drive, presumably to about operating temperature the server started and it was possible to retrieve the data from the disk.


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