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Old school server status

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:09 am
by whasf
Bad news... Sunday afternoon I started noticing I couldn't get on the Internet and my VMs were crashing. The data store was "inaccessible", it looks like it disappeared, so I lost all my VMs and their data.

Old school's data has been backing up to the cloud every night, so this is a good opportunity to test a full restore.

I am going to call Nexenta and see how much it would be to have them look at my storage server, it might be worth it to possibly get all my data back.

It may be a day or two, I will post to this thread when I have more information.

Re: Old school server status

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:43 pm
by Vanyel
It's my fault. I took this week off to play.

Re: Old school server status

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 9:37 pm
by whasf
Update -
I'm running a utility to scan the VMFS partition. I'm scanning the new server and old server. I think I may have a better chance at getting the older copies back (right now it is at about 80% and says it found 74k files). I hope at least some of those files are the VMs :)

Re: Old school server status

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:13 pm
by xipies
Thanks for the update! Here's hoping.

Re: Old school server status

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:58 pm
by whasf
Talking to a guy on VMWare forums, I sent him the first 1.5GB of the disk and he's going to see what he can do. The scan didn't come up with anything :(

Re: Old school server status

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:06 pm
by Vanyel
whasf wrote:Talking to a guy on VMWare forums, I sent him the first 1.5GB of the disk and he's going to see what he can do. The scan didn't come up with anything :(
That both sucks and blows :(

Re: Old school server status

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 10:28 pm
by xipies
Have you tried mounting the vmdk on your host os?

VDDK has vmware-mount.exe that can mount .vmdk files. I have no idea how it would handle corrupt disk images, though.

https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/

Re: Old school server status

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 11:16 am
by Foxmulder
OH NO! Please get it back up and running soon. I miss this server.

Re: Old school server status

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:38 pm
by whasf
It should be up Monday evening..! If the restore goes well

Re: Old school server status

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 7:47 pm
by whasf
It's back!