IRC log for #gllug on 20120411

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06:55.34morsingProvito!
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08:24.18morsingwethrin: How's Toby?
08:31.00wethrinHe's fine
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13:13.01toxboianyone has any idea how to create a new partition table without losing data?
13:14.12toxboimy server running RAID-1 lost it's partition table and I was wondering is there any hope to get the data back.
13:23.59morsing"Lost"?
13:24.04morsingOn both disks?
13:36.22toxboimorsing: unfortunately yes
13:36.49toxboiI think something just wrote on partition table which replicated to both the disk.
13:37.47toxboiotherwise, RAID-1 would have recovered it.
13:39.34morsingPCs suck big time
13:42.32blackopsthey do
13:43.08blackopstoxboi: normally all partitions have a signature that you can look for (apart from swap)
13:45.35morsingtoxboi: Recover from backup?
13:49.51toxboimorsing: The backups are from last night.
13:50.58toxboiblackops: but I can't access the disk. How do I look for the signatures then?
13:57.25blackopsif you can't access the disks, I think that's your issue :P
13:57.56whiteopsblackops: ok
14:43.25morsingtoxboi: ?  Backing up your partition table should really be on an adhoc basis
14:53.18toxboimorsing: I didn't have the partition table backup. Perhaps, I'll make sure I do this for all my servers.
14:54.14toxboilooks like I would have written a new partition table if I've the start/end block numbers.
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