Unstable VxFS in SCO UnixWare

Sometimes, after you shutdown your system and attempt to restart, your computer system refuses to start. In most cases, you encounter an error message that provides you details for the reason of halting the booting process of your operating system. In addition, this error message makes the data stored in your hard drive inaccessible. The best and easiest way to access the data after booting error messages, you will need to restore the data from an updated backup. However, in absence of an updated backup or backup falling short to restore the desired files and folders, you will need to use efficient SCO UnixWare Data Recovery software that provides absolute and orderly data recovery.

Consider a practical instance, where you normally shutdown your system and when you attempt to restart your system, you encounter the below error message:

“# fsck -o full -y /dev/vg01/lvol3
pass0 - checking structural files
pass1 - checking inode sanity and blocks
pass2 - checking directory linkage
pass3 - checking reference counts
pass4 - checking resource maps
small extent in iau inode”

The above error message stops the booting process and makes the hard drive data inaccessible. Furthermore, you encounter the same error message every time you attempt to start your system.

Cause:

The above error message primarily occurs due to instability of file system. This instability can be caused due to improper system shutdown, virus infection, and more.

Resolution:

For comprehensive resolution of error message, you will need to perform newfs’d on the file system. In most cases, the above resolution works and your system becomes mountable. However if in case, the same error message repairs after performing the above resolution, then you will need to reinstall of SCO UnixWare operating system. A fresh reinstall of SCO Unix Ware results in deleting all the files and folders formally stored on the hard drive. To recover all those lost files and folders, the best possible way is to use advanced SCO UnixWare Data Recovery software. These SCO Unix Ware Recovery tools are designed by highly qualified data recovery experts and are easy to understand without any prior technical understanding.

Stellar Phoenix (SCO UnixWare) Data Recovery is a power-packed SCO UnixWare Recovery software that is designed for Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98, and 95. The read only software is compatible with VxFS [Veritas File System - VxFS1, VxFS2 & VxFS4] and UFS File systems, and supports storage devices such as IDE, EIDE, and SCSI hard drives.

Data Recovery after system crash using HP-UX based UNIX server

The servers like file servers, application servers, database servers, mail servers, domain controllers, Web Servers and NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices create the backbone of modern corporate record storage. Such server setups generally use multiple hard drives configured together in disk arrays. Due to continual operation and large volume of user requests, such hard drives may physically or logically fail and cause serious data loss. There are various NOS (Network Operating System) that maintain all the data and information for such network environments. For instance, in HP-UX UNIX, such issues can be taken care of by performing HP UNIX Data Recovery.

For UNIX server operating systems like HP-UX, the common reasons behind data loss are as follows:

1.) Erroneous or missing server registry configuration: The registry is a database of configuration settings. If you face any issues with the registry, your server may crash and the critical data stored in it will become unusable.

2.) Intermittent drive failure due to system software issues: The server configuration can get severely impacted due to such problems. The system software (here HP-UX UNIX operating system) may get corrupt due to various issues like incorrect shut down, virus infection, vandalism etc.

3.) Failure of multiple drives: In setups like RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks) arrays, the hard drives undergo continual stress due to large volume of data transfer. Thus, there is always a probability of software or hardware level crash due to such constantly utilized storage setups as RAID or JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) in UNIX.

4.) User errors as accidental deletion: At times, the users at the client-end erroneously delete certain data as database records, personal folder files, shared resources and more. To salvage such critical files from the hard drive, you need to opt for HP UNIX Data Recovery.

Such issues can easily be resolved by implementing efficient recovery tools. In other words, you need to take certain minimum precautions as to avoid any disk overwrite operations or opening the hard disk. In such situations, we need to narrow down to the nature of system failure. A system (as here a HP-UX UNIX based server) failure can fail due to software based corruption or hardware based malfunction. You can extract all your lost data with the help of quality data recovery software and efficient data recovery services. The hard drive can be connected as a slave or using an interface adapter device (as a chassis or a cable). The recovery software should be installed on a working system/hard drive to scan the affected hard drive. Generally, these software provide the preview feature, so that you can preview the lost files detected by the recovery software and recover them as per your preference. After you are done with the selection, you can simply save them to a safe location as a hard drive (you should ensure that you do not save the recovered files to the affected hard drive, not even to a different and healthy partition of it). Then, you can go for a clean operating system (HP-UX) reinstall. You will need to configure your server from the beginning and it is highly recommended that you opt for automated data backup on some different storage media. The recovery service a step ahead of the recovery software. The recovery experts carry out optimum recovery of critical server data through advanced component level steps like opening the hard drive and repairing the malfunctioned parts. They provide solutions for extracting all critical server data post both physical and logical failures.

Stellar Phoenix HP UNIX Data Recovery is efficient HP UNIX Recovery tool. The software supports recovery from JFS 3.0, 3.1 and 3.3 file systems. This Data Recovery HP UNIX tool supports recovery from SCSI, SATA, EIDE and IDE hard drives. Stellar also provides state-of-the-art data recovery services under sterile lab environment of Class-100 Clean Rooms. The recovery services cover PC, Mac, Server, RAID, SAN and NAS storage media as hard drive, SSDs (Solid State Drives) along with USB flash drives.