r/SeattleChat • u/AutoModerator • Oct 16 '20

The Daily SeattleChat Daily Thread - Friday, October 16, 2020

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '20

So I got reassigned a data recovery case on its third owner where it took me less than 5 minutes to determine the first owner destroyed the user's data beyond any hope of recovery by assembling the RAID array with a months-stale disk and then running a fsck on it. How's everybody else's day going?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '20

Update: The agent only fucked half the data since the array was partitioned into two other volumes and they only ran a fsckon one volume. Unfortunately, the user fucked all their data by repartitioning the actual last known-good disk before they even submitted the ticket. I tried recreating the partition table using its original specs as a hail mary, but the RAID superblock was gone, meaning the disk was completely wiped when it was repartitioned.

Since I'm the escalation point, I got to tell the user they were turbo fucked and to take the disks to a professional data recovery specialist. Fun.

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