On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > First of all, if you had data on that drive it was not your "operating > system" drive. It was a data drive (: > > Now, it all depends on what kind of drive failure you're having. If the > drive is still accessible, mount it and copy the files off. If you want to > be safe (and have the room), connect it to another computer and use dd to > make an image of it, then mount and work with that image rather than the > actual drive. I would definitely need more information to give you better > advice. > That is the idea. Need to get an outside box to hold the additional drives. > > > In the future, try to store important data away from the OS drive, and > BACK IT UP. Please note that a RAID device is NOT A BACKUP. It's a more > reliable and redundant storage device, but you should still back stuff up. > What you could do is keep all your important data on the system drive, and > back it up to the RAID device. > The data that I'm talking about is largely in hidden files, like for a journal program, or bookmark files (these represent lots of work!). > > You could back up the entire virtual machine files, but yes, Shared > Folders in VirtualBox is a good idea, too (then you only have to back up > that data directory). It's fairly trivial to set up; you just have to make > sure you install the Guest Additions on your guest system. Spent a lot of hours (after installing the Guest Additions) and still wasn't able to get the shared folders to work. Do you have a tutorial or guide or some such for me to follow? Much thanks for the ideas presented so far. Looking for ways to set up the new 'operating system drive' to reduce the pain upon another occurrence like this - - Please? Dee > > > > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, o1bigtenor wrote: > > Greetings >> >> I have a large system with a fair number of resources which has just come >> home from the hospital (computer) when I had a disk drive fail abruptly. >> >> 1.The tech tells me that the hard drive can be accessed. How do I do a low >> level transfer to another hard drive? >> (This would mean that I would have empty sectors but there is some >> information that I would like to get.) >> >> 2. The drive was my 'operating system' drive. That meant that here is >> where >> I kept my 14 VirtualBox machines. (One was my business record keeping >> (accounting) and that is the one that I want real bad but its only 16 >> months >> of data so it can be redone but its painful!) >> >> How do I set up the hard drive so that files can be moved to my RAID array >> (which should be just fine) - - - or should I? >> Should I be setting up this drive as it was before but just looking for a >> way to do backups? >> As I understand it operating systems on RAID isn't nice - - - or is it? >> >> I am looking for something that doesn't crap out so completely. I >> understand >> I should have had backups but I wasn't able to get the shared folder stuff >> working so that I could seamlessly transfer stuff to my main array. That >> would also be a viable option if someone can tell me how to cudgel >> VirtualBox into submission. >> >> Questions welcomed. >> >> TIA >> >> Dee >> >> >> _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150716/fa315312/attachment-0001.html>